{"id":337952,"date":"2026-03-10T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:06:08","slug":"scholes-messaged-carrick-to-smooth-over-social-media-jibe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/337952\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholes messaged Carrick to smooth over social media jibe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Scholes has insisted he did not mean to offend his former team-mate Michael Carrick after a social media barb aimed at the Manchester United head coach on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Scholes posted that “Michael has definitely got something special about him, (because) United have been crap last four games,” shortly after United lost 2-1 at Newcastle.<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the loss, the first since Carrick replaced Ruben Amorim, United sit third in the Premier League and are challenging for Champions League qualification.<\/p>\n

And responding to criticism of his comment, Scholes, speaking on the GoodBadFootball podcast, said: “Michael is one of the nicest people you will ever meet in football \u2013 he’d be the last person I would want to offend.<\/p>\n

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\nMichael Carrick’s side lost to Newcastle<\/p>\n

“I messaged Michael anyway. I went straight to Michael and said, ‘Look, I never intended to upset you.\u2019 And I don\u2019t think I needed to say that anyway, and he told me himself he wasn\u2019t upset by it.<\/p>\n

“I think people have just took it differently from what was meant. The only thing I was saying was that I don\u2019t think they played that well the last four games, and he\u2019s still managing to get results.”<\/p>\n

Scholes\u2019 comments were criticised by another former United player, Patrice Evra, who also took aim at perceived negativity from fellow pundits Roy Keane and Gary Neville.<\/p>\n

“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.” said Evra. “You can\u2019t be positive, you have to be negative.”<\/p>\n

Watch Real Madrid v Manchester City in the Champions League on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News app and on rte.ie\/sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes has insisted he did not mean to offend his former team-mate Michael Carrick after a social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-337952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}