"Paul Scholes tried his hand at management with Oldham Athletic For plenty of players, the end of their playing days means the start of a coaching career. Others, however, do not feel the urge to rush into football management and are content to take their time before making their next career move. Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes seemed to fall into this latter camp when he hung up his boots in 2013, only for sentiment to make him rethink his plans."
"The 66-time England international grew up an Oldham Athletic supporter and it was this pull to his boyhood club that convinced him to take his first step into management in 2019, when he spent a month in charge of the Latics. It was a short and ultimately unsuccessful stint, as he would win just one of his seven games in charge, so was it a case of the right club at the wrong time?"
"I'm not sure it was ever the right club, Scholes admits to FourFourTwo. I never really went looking for it, I just got persuaded into it because every time a manager got sacked, it was always, Scholesy, are you going to do the Oldham job? I thought, F**king hell, go on then, I'll give it a crack. It was stupid really, but that's the way I looked at it. It didn't work out."
Paul Scholes retired from playing in 2013 and later returned briefly to management with Oldham Athletic in 2019. He accepted the role partly because he had supported Oldham since childhood and felt persuaded to take the job. His month in charge produced one victory from seven matches, and he described taking the job as a spur-of-the-moment decision that ultimately did not work out. Scholes has undertaken punditry work since retirement and holds part-ownership of Salford City. He remains involved with Salford's recruitment activities while other former staff are no longer officially working at the club.
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