“It does not give me any pleasure to say that at the moment I am struggling to watch Louis van Gaal’s team with any great enjoyment. They beat Burnley on Wednesday night but it was Burnley who had by far the best of the first half. At times, United’s football is miserable.” Paul Scholes’ recent no-holds-barred assessment of the current state of Manchester United in his column for the Independent was damning, to say the least.
