Scholsey Retires

[elnino99]

always respected and liked this ginger fella.

good luck

[HuSsAiN]

As expected.
I felt it was going to happen but I really feel sad about that. LEGEND. What an absolutely tremendous player. I will miss his amazing passes and composure...

VDS,Neville and Scholesy all gone.. it will be a transition summer

What other players/managers have said about him:

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes. I have spoken with Xabi Alonso about this many times. Scholes is a spectacular player who has everything. He can play the final pass, he can score, he is strong, he never gets knocked off the ball and he doesn’t give possession away. If he had been Spanish then maybe he would have been valued more.

Xavi

My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.
Zinedine Zidane



Rooney is one of the best players in the world and I love watching him play. But if you had to pick out only one, then for their history and for all that they have achieved it would have to be Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs. They are two shining examples for any player.
Andres Iniesta


I’m not the best, Paul Scholes is.
Edgar Davids, in his prime

Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes – he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would have loved to have played alongside him.
Pep Guardiola

I tell anyone who asks me – Scholes is the best English player.
Laurent Blanc


An amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being.
Roy Keane

I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It’s Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.
Sir Bobby Charlton

The player in the Premiership I admire most? Easy – Scholes.
Patrick Vieira

He is the one whose level I aspire to. He is the best player in the Premier League.
Cesc Fabregas

I can’t understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t seek the limelight like some of the other ’stars’.
Thierry Henry

Paul Scholes had the best football brain I’d ever seen in a kid. Let’s face it. Paul Scholes is in a class of its own.
Brian Kidd

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team – that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. He would have been one of the first players I’d have bought, given the chance.
Marcello Lippi

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.
Zinedine Zidane


Juan Sebasticn Veron while at Chelsea being asked in an interview who’s the best English player : “Paul Scholes.”
Paul Scholes is just fantastic. When you play alongside him, you realise what a special talent he is.
Michael Carrick

Very few players can do that, but Scholes is one of them – and I knew he was one of them. That’s why, without question, I think Paul Scholes is the best player in England. He’s got the best skills, the best brain. No one can match him.
Sir Alex Ferguson

England have lost their best player
George Best after Paul retired from international football


There isn’t a player of his mould anywhere in the world.
Glen Hoddle

For me, it’s Paul Scholes. He’ll do ridiculous things in training like say, “You see that tree over there?” – it’ll be 40 yards away – “I’m going to hit it”. And he’ll do it. Everyone at the club considers him the best.”
Rio Ferdinand

I wouldn’t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.
Gary Neville

Why isn’t he playing for England? It is crazy. Only in England. Scholes is a great, great player. So experienced and still, for me, one of the best in the world in midfield. Manchester United are lucky to have him.
Jose Mourinho



He’s always in the right position, always seems to be at the end of the box when the ball drops in. The complete midfielder – when he’s fit, he’s the best. Some go missing but he’s in the right place at the right time. He’s my favourite player of all-time, unbelievable. If you give him a chance it’s a goal, isn’t it?
Micah Richards

He’s the best one- or two-touch passer in the country. He sees the game unlike any other player.
Terry Venables


If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. He can tackle, and his passing and shooting is of the highest level. He’s the most consistent and naturally gifted player we’ve had for a long, long time.
Alan Shearer

Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You’d probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.
Gordon Strachan

Paul, for me, is the best player in the England team. It worries teams. Speak to any other international team and they will single Paul out as England’s key player. For me, he doesn’t get the full credit that he deserves. He is a world-class player and deserves to be up there with the likes of Zidane and Figo.
Phil Neville

Scholes is one of the most complete footballers I’ve ever seen. His one-touch play is phenomenal. Whenever I have played against him, I never felt I could get close to him.
Eidur Gudjohnsen

He has an awareness of what’s happening around him on the edge of the box which is better than most players. As a kid he always had a knack of arriving in the penalty area just at the right time, but he’s proving just as effective from outside the box because he’s using his experience in the right way. It doesn’t matter who I am thinking about bringing into my midfield, Paul Scholes will be included, as he would in any side in the world.
Sir Alex Ferguson

[GoIran]

One of the best footballers of his generation.

[HuSsAiN]

[Mr Pouya]

I cant believe it man all these epic players retiering pretty much end of a era! Only giggs left

But Scholes. One of the classiest players of our generation. Will be massively missed

[HuSsAiN]

Figo: “I’m star-struck when I see Paul Scholes because you never see him. On the pitch you can’t catch him. Off the pitch he disappears.”

[shayan20]

with scholes retired and giggs at the end of his career, surely fergusen will spend on 2 quality midfielders in the summer.

[HuSsAiN]

with scholes retired and giggs at the end of his career, surely fergusen will spend on 2 quality midfielders in the summer.

yep he should

[shayan20]

^
Sneijder and Modric my best bet. at least one of them for sure.

[IranFootball10]

sneijder seems like he has some Scholes like capablities

[dcpp]

Id love to see Sneijder in United's jersey, and another kinda underestimated player that i'd like too see at Manchester is Huddlestone, i know SAF was/is interested and im pretty sure he has the potential to make it

[Adesor Vafaseya]

always respected and liked this ginger fella.
good luck

do you think he thinks the same of you?

[HuSsAiN]

Id love to see Sneijder in United's jersey, and another kinda underestimated player that i'd like too see at Manchester is Huddlestone, i know SAF was/is interested and im pretty sure he has the potential to make it

I don't rate Huddlestone highly. Good passer and shots, but is not mobile enough in the middle. Modric would be a great addition.

[Shervin.]

hussain, where did you get all those quotes from?

[Mr Pouya]

Id love to see Sneijder in United's jersey, and another kinda underestimated player that i'd like too see at Manchester is Huddlestone, i know SAF was/is interested and im pretty sure he has the potential to make it

huddleston is a lazy fat piece of shit. he cant even get a spot on spurts starting 11 and u want him to come to united??