Wenger lauds Scholes and then hits out at his 'dark side'

• zocoss

  21 Aug 10, 01:12

  Arsenal boss Wenger lauds Scholes...and then hits out at United man's 'dark side' 
  

   

   

   

  Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger maintains Paul Scholes remains 'one of the greatest footballers in England' - but is not a fan of the Manchester United midfielder's 'darker side'.  

  Scholes may be fast approaching 36, but the United veteran impressed in the Community Shield victory over Chelsea at Wembley and again during the opening match of the new Barclays Premier League season, setting up goals for Dimitar Berbatov and Ryan Giggs in a 3-0 win against Newcastle at Old Trafford.   

  However, Scholes - who was asked to come out of international retirement by England manager Fabio Capello ahead of the World Cup - has sometimes drawn controversy figure for his tough tackling. 

  Wenger said: 'I believe Paul Scholes is still one of the greatest football players in England.

  'His contribution to the success of Manchester United is absolutely huge. The regret I have personally is that he was not always the fairest player. 'He did not get completely what [credit] he deserves as a football player, because he is not someone who runs after the media to be in the papers, and I respect that a lot.  

   

  

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  'But there is a little bit of a darker side in him, that he sometimes did things which I did not like.'

  Wenger, though, maintained: 'Who would not have liked Paul Scholes in their team? He is an absolutely fantastic football player.

  'When he has the ball at his feet and you are a central defender, you have to be on your toes because he can still today find anybody in the box - and we have seen that again against Newcastle on Monday night.'

• omgukilledkenny

  21 Aug 10, 01:32

   The legendary Scholes miss-timed tackle. 

  Hah! its all part of the package la Wenger.

• sand king

  21 Aug 10, 01:36

  Originally posted by omgukilledkenny:

   The legendary Scholes miss-timed tackle. 

  Hah! its all part of the package la Wenger.

  He wants every midfielder to be like Fab lol

• Rooney9

  21 Aug 10, 01:57

  which footballer play fair and square? seldom? compared to those diving cheats who cheated for a pk, scholes is an angel. he trains hard, play hard and then go back to his family and avoid the media circus like david beckham. his tackles is crunching and ill times always, but he set out to injure them intentionally, unlike roy keane. his tackles cannot make it lol, that is why 99% of his tackles always give away fk or yellow carded.

• Rock^Star

  21 Aug 10, 11:19

  i never liked scholes' tackling either. He has been doing two foot mistimed tackles since the first time i saw him play.

• kopiosatu

  21 Aug 10, 16:23

  that is why he is not playing as a DM

• zocoss

  22 Aug 10, 00:00

  Wenger just want to try and get him sent off during matches that's all by singling him out like that... Maybe he should keep his "praise" for his own players...

• McVay

  22 Aug 10, 00:31

  all i see is mind games. 

  so early ah wenger? 

• Chris88110

  22 Aug 10, 12:01

  Look whose talking, the guy who nurtured Patrick Vieira..........................

• iceFatboy

  26 Aug 10, 14:19

  Originally posted by Chris88110:

  Look whose talking, the guy who nurtured Patrick Vieira..........................

  the guy who always comment "huh? i did not see that" whenever his players make ill-timed or rash tackles..

   

   

• iceFatboy

  26 Aug 10, 14:20

  Originally posted by sand king:

  He wants every midfielder to be like Fab lol

  u mean fiber-glass??? just kidding.

• Chris88110

  26 Aug 10, 18:20

  Notice Wenger's midfielders got 2 types. One rock solid like Vieira always kena card, or tauhu like Reyes