And Scholes isn’t the only person in recent years to take aim at Pogba over a lack of focus and concentration.
Former manager Jose Mourinho said in 2018 that he benefited from playing for France because there were players around him to encourage him, to dictate him.
He said: “I think the World Cup is the perfect habitat for a player like him to give [their] best.
“Why? Because it’s closed for a month, where he can only think about football. Where he’s with his team on the training camp, completely isolated from the external world, where they focus just on football, where the dimensions of the game can only motivate.
“During a season, you can have a big match then a smaller match, then one even smaller, then you can lose your focus, you can lose your concentration, then comes a big match again.
“In the World Cup, the direction of the emotion, of the responsibility, of the big decisions is always growing up.