Former left back hit back at Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Roy Keane for their negative stance
Patrice Evra has criticised his former Manchester United teammates for what he sees as unfair public criticism of current manager Michael Carrick following the club’s recent defeat to Newcastle.
The former United and France full-back took aim at Paul Scholes, Gary Neville and Roy Keane after United lost 2-1 to Newcastle, their first loss under Carrick, and the former United players followed it up with criticism.
Scholes posted a message on Instagram saying “Michael has definitely got something special about him…cos Utd have been crap last four games”.
“I hope Paul Scholes’ Instagram story is fake,” Evra said in an interview with Stake. “I hope he was hacked. To be honest, I’m not surprised at that from Scholesy. He was the quietest player I’ve ever played with in my entire career. Now, in the media, he drops bombshells.
“I really don’t understand the lack of support behind Michael Carrick – he’s one of us and he’s doing very well. There’s been negative analysis from Scholesy, but also from Roy Keane and Gary Neville. It annoys me because we want to be in the top four, and those comments are unnecessary, but this is what you do when you work in TV. You can’t be positive, you have to be negative.”
Evra finds it interesting that the same pundits who have criticised Carrick and most other United managers have had terrible coaching careers.
“Most of these guys get a managerial job and get fired straightaway,” said Evra. “I said to Neville: ‘It’s easy to talk on TV. When you were at Valencia, they asked you for paella, and you gave them fish and chips’. After three months, they said goodbye.
“People can’t forget what they have done as a manager. As players, they’re legends, but as managers, they haven’t done a great job. So for them to speak and possibly kill the career of a manager, it’s a little bit too much.”
