United won it all with Scholes partnering Keane two all-time greats who ran the midfield and enabled an array of wonderful wingers to do their thing. This Scholes is perhaps the one most fondly remembered by United fans: the canny midfield sparkplug who helped everything zip along at Sir Alex Ferguson’s required pace. This was the iteration of Scholes that had his best games in an England shirt, albeit it was not the player we wanted to see or the football expected from him.īox-To-Box Paul Scholes arose following a season-ending knee injury for Roy Keane in September 1997 and ran things in the middle of the pitch until 2001, before a brief re-emergence from 2006-08. If you dropped this version of Scholes into a modern United side, you’d likely play him in the No 10 position and ask him to run into the half spaces to make a nuisance of himself. He’s your “late arrival in the penalty area” and “shooting from the edge of the box” Scholes. This Scholes combined deft feet, quick thinking and sublime body control to wrong-foot defenders and seize goalscoring opportunities. There was Second Striker Paul Scholes, who played for Manchester United from his 1994 debut to about 1997, and then again from 2001 to 2006.

Paul Scholes was secretly three different players across his professional career. It’s a bit of fun, but hopefully a bit of fun you’ll enjoy between now and August. You might not agree with their choices, you won’t agree with the order. Picking 50 from 309,949 options is an impossible task.

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