{"id":3051,"date":"2026-04-21T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:40:26","slug":"paul-scholes-urges-manchester-united-to-sign-arsenal-star-he-previously-went-down-in-flames-in-summer-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes urges Manchester United to sign Arsenal star he previously &#8216;went down in flames&#8217; in summer transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"D\">\n<div>\n<p><span>Guest of <\/span><span>podcast \u00ab<\/span><span>The Good, The Bad &#038; The Football<\/span><span>  \u00bb, Paul Scholes admitted to having revised his judgment on the 27-year-old player. He admitted to having had reservations in the past, but insisted Rice has the ideal profile to solve Manchester United&#8217;s long-standing problems in midfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf I had to choose, I would take Declan Rice,\u201d he said. \u201cI know I put him down a bit, but I think Manchester United need a profile like his. They need a real central midfielder. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 11-time Premier League player also dismissed the idea that United could no longer attract the best talent from the league, adding: \u201cI heard Rio Ferdinand talking about the profile of a realistic manager for United the other day. But all coaches and players must be realistic targets for Man United. Who is not a realistic target for United? I don&#8217;t believe it: anything is possible for United. \u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest of podcast \u00abThe Good, The Bad &#038; The Football \u00bb, Paul Scholes admitted to having revised his judgment on the 27-year-old player. He admitted to having had reservations in the past, but insisted Rice has the ideal profile to solve Manchester United&#8217;s long-standing problems in midfield. \u201cIf I had to choose, I would take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}