Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has sparked a major debate among Premier League fans with his bold claim about who currently rules England\u2019s midfield. The former England international has declared Newcastle United star Sandro Tonali as the best midfielder in the Premier League, even rating him above Arsenal\u2019s \u00a3105 million man, Declan Rice.<\/p>\n
Speaking about the two players, Scholes said, \u201cSandro Tonali is the best midfielder in the Premier League, better than Declan Rice. I think he\u2019s been brilliant. I really like Declan, don\u2019t get me wrong, I just think he takes too many touches of the ball too many times. I think he tries to look more stylish than he needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments have sent shockwaves through social media, as Rice has been widely praised since joining Arsenal from West Ham last summer. However, Scholes believes that while Rice is technically sound, Tonali offers a more dynamic and direct approach in midfield.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can be box-to-box, scores goals\u2026 just don\u2019t think he does it enough,\u201d<\/em> Scholes added, hinting that Rice\u2019s game still lacks the attacking edge that Tonali brings to the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester United legend Paul Scholes has sparked a major debate among Premier League fans with his bold claim about who\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[270,398,3918,3796,3489,249,702,1169,3285,218,3676,4076],"class_list":["post-16215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-declan-rice","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-man-united","tag-manchester-united","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-newcastle-united","tag-paul-scholes","tag-premier-league","tag-sandro-tonali","tag-scholes"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}