Patrice Evra has criticised fellow Manchester United legend Paul Scholes over an ‘unnecessary’ comment he made about caretaker manager Michael Carrick.

Carrick enjoyed a fantastic start to his time in charge of United, winning seven of his first eight games and taking the Red Devils back into the Champions League places.

Carrick’s tenure hit its first stumbling block last week as Manchester United were beaten by ten-man Newcastle United at St James’ Park.

Following that setback Scholes appeared to take a swipe at Carrick, who has emerged as the favourite for the Manchester United job since Ruben Amorim was sacked in January.

Taking to Instagram, Scholes said: ‘Michael has definitely got something special about him… cos Utd have been crap last 4 games… night.’

Scholes later deleted the post but Evra was nevertheless disappointed by his former teammate over his ‘unnecessary’ dig.

‘I hope Paul Scholes’ Instagram story is fake, I hope he was hacked,’ Evra told Stake. ‘To be honest, I’m not surprised at that from Scholesy.

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