Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has taken a brutal swipe at the Red Devils’ former midfielder Jesse Lingard as he continues his search for a new club.
Lingard has been a free agent since leaving Nottingham Forest in the summer after a dismal one season spell at the City Ground.
The former England international was training with West Ham United in the summer, and also trained with Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq who, of course, are managed by Steven Gerrard.
But he is still without a club over one week into the January transfer window and Lingard hasn’t started a competitive professional game for 10 months, last making an appearance in April’s loss to Manchester United.
Lingard last made a Premier League appearance in April
The 31-year-old took to Instagram to upload some footage of him in the gym, keeping himself ticking over ahead of a possible move to a new club this month – something he has done regularly across the last few months.
Paul Scholes left this comment on Jesse Lingard’s latest Instagram post of him training at a gym out in Dubai 😳pic.twitter.com/XwE21Ybz9w
Clearly that is something Scholes has taken Umbridge with as he took a brutal swipe at his former United team-mate in the comments section, asking: “Are you just gonna f*** about in the gym or are you gonna actually play football?”
Sean McCormick was the Sports Editor at Dexerto. He has a BA in Sports Journalism and over the last seven years has worked as a writer, reporter and an editor across titles such as Chronicle Live, Leeds Live and Manchester Evening News covering the region’s football clubs and sports stars. Sean loves football, boxing, MMA, darts and NBA.
