{"id":602067,"date":"2026-09-01T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602067\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:14:09","slug":"they-need-him-paul-scholes-urges-manchester-united-to-sign-75m-newcastle-defender-after-luke-shaw-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/602067\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They need him!&#8217; &#8211; Paul Scholes urges Manchester United to sign \u00a375m Newcastle defender after Luke Shaw struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Scholes is pushing for an immediate replacement, Rio Ferdinand has taken a more measured approach. The former defender acknowledged that Shaw had a &#8220;below-par&#8221; game against Ipswich but insisted the 31-year-old remains one of United&#8217;s most consistent performers over the last year. <\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand explained his position on his YouTube channel: &#8220;In a couple of my WhatsApp chats, some United fans were saying, &#8216;Shaw, get rid!&#8217;\u2026 Shaw, over the last year, has been one of our most consistent performers and you\u2019re sitting there saying, &#8216;He should be there&#8217;, or, &#8216;He should be somewhere else&#8217;&#8230; no! Go and get a left-back that we want to actually bed in over time to be a replacement for someone like Shaw. You think you\u2019re going to go in the market and find someone?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Scholes is pushing for an immediate replacement, Rio Ferdinand has taken a more measured approach. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,43043,46,257875,203160,3157,69890,2619,105],"class_list":["post-602067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-ipswich-town","tag-israel","tag-l-hall","tag-l-shaw","tag-manchester-united","tag-p-scholes","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}