The Man United legend has addressed the post he made on social media following the Premier League loss against Newcastle.

Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has revealed that former teammate Michael Carrick ‘wasn’t upset’ by his social media message sent in the aftermath of the loss against Newcastle. United fell to a 2-1 loss at St James’ Park on Wednesday night, their first defeat since Carrick took over.

Under the interim manager, United have won six of the eight Premier League games, drawing one, with the one loss coming against the Magpies. The impressive form has seen them climb up into third place in the Premier League table, which is a boost to their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.

Despite that, Scholes sent a post on social media in the aftermath of the defeat, appearing to criticise Carrick and the United players.

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He wrote: “Michael has definitely got something special about him…cos Utd have been [expletive] last four games.” He later deleted the post.

Speaking on his The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast on Monday, Scholes has now explained the message and revealed a conversation with Carrick over it. “It was in no way intended to be offensive towards Michael,” he said.

“Michael is one of the nicest people you will ever meet in football, he’d be the last person that I would want to offend.

“I messaged Michael anyway. I went straight to Michael and said, ‘Look, I was never intending to upset you’

“And I don’t think I needed to say that anyway and he told me himself he wasn’t upset by it.”

Reacting to the post on the Rest is Football podcast, former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer labelled it as ‘weird’.

Host Gary Lineker said: “You see, there’s a little bit of beef between Paul Scholes and Michael Carrick? He’s digging him out, isn’t he? He’s not exactly being very supportive of his old team-mate, is he?”

Shearer then responded with: “It’s a strange, it’s weird, isn’t it?”

Lineker then added: “It’s weird, isn’t it? Maybe there’s a bit of history there. Who knows?”

Fellow pundit Micah Richards said: “I need a fact checker on that though, I don’t believe it’s true. Everyone is saying it’s true, it has got on all the headlines from social media.

“But if he did say that, Scholesy (Paul Scholes) when you see him, he is one of the nicest guys ever and I don’t think he has got any aspirations to be a coach. As an ex-teammate, I thought they had love for each other, but it was strange to say the least.”