I started to become concerned when Scholes hit the 33-34 years of age. Usually clubs tend to start to bring replacements at that age (as we're currently doing with Carrick). At that point I was confident that the likes of Cleverley, Ando and Fletcher would never reach the standards needed to replace Scholes adequately. Prior to that I was worried about our inability to replace Roy Keane. In matter of fact I was relieved that we got Carrick as in my opinion Keane overstayed by for 2 seasons
TBF I was surprised by SAF ability to make due with the situation at hand. Moving Giggs to CM was a masterstroke and his ability to rotate the players and give them adequate rest prolonged the players careers for at least 3 years. However as Paul Scholes once said, there's something terribly wrong at a club when your best two midfielders happen to be at the wrong end of their 30s.
