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By John Ogunsemore
Patrick Evra has expressed annoyance over lack of support for Manchester United’s manager, Michael Carrick by his former teammates at the club.
Carrick has won six, drawn one and lost one of the eight games since he took charge after Ruben Amorim’s departure in January.
Evra, who was Carrick’s United teammate from 2006 to 2014, said the Englishman has not enjoyed enough support from fellow ex-teammates turned pundits, including Paul Scholes, Roy Keane and Gary Neville.
He slammed the United icons for their ‘negative analysis’ throughout Carrick’s spell in charge.
Scholes was particularly critical of the manager after United fell 2-1 to 10-man Newcastle in their last game, going on social media to state that the Old Trafford club had been “crap” for the last four games.
“I hope Paul Scholes’ Instagram story is fake. 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 told gambling website Stake.
He also berated Neville, stating, “Most of these guys get a managerial job and get fired straightaway. 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.”
