United were the joint-lowest scorers in the top half of the table last season with 57 goals, and ended the campaign with an embarrassing negative goal difference.
United legend Scholes, who scored 152 goals for the club during his glittering career at Old Trafford, hit out at the team’s current attackers and said they are not up to the standard required.
Scholes told The Overlap Fan Debate: “Manchester United are struggling going forward – they’re struggling for goals.
“They’ve scored five goals and three of them were against Southampton. That probably tells you the forwards just aren’t good enough.
“Leaving Marcus Rashford out on Saturday was a strange one. He’s not scored for such a long time and suddenly, he comes and scores three goals in two games and he’s not playing.
“He (Ten Hag) said it was rotation. Come on, do me a favour.
“Alejandro Garnacho is a threat, but he’s not the end article and we don’t have that finished article in any of the forward areas, apart from Rashford, who’s had a tough time.
“Bruno Fernandes will score you goals, but they don’t have the centre-forward (that they need). Amad Diallo is a little bit like Garnacho – he’s a little bit behind him – but he’s got potential. They’re all very raw and have too much potential along the front line.
“You think of Rasmus Hojlund last year. Again, it’s potential. I’m not looking at him thinking, ‘Wow, we’ve got a centre-forward here, 25-30 goals’.
“I’m not thinking that. Joshua Zirkzee does bring people into play a lot more than Hojlund does, but is he that massive goal threat?
“They had a couple of chances against Liverpool which the keeper saved, and as a midfield player, we can be a bit over-critical on the midfield players when you think what’s ahead of them.
“If I was in the Liverpool team in midfield, I’d be thinking, ‘Wow, I’ve got proper forwards who are going to win us games of football’.
“If I’m in the midfield for United, I’m looking forward thinking, ‘I’m not quite sure, possibly Bruno, Marcus if he’s got his confidence’.
“The rest of them, I’m just not quite sure about.”
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