Despite the upturn in form, Scholes remains convinced that United will look elsewhere for their next permanent boss. He argues that the club hierarchy will be "scarred" by the Solskjaer era, where a club legend was given the job permanently after a successful interim spell, only for it to eventually unravel.
To compete for major honours, the pundit insists they need a manager with a proven track record at the highest level, citing Thomas Tuchel as the calibre of coach required.
"He’s come into the job now and it’s been that bad for a year that it couldn’t really get any worse," Scholes explained. "Once you take that job full-time... all of a sudden you’ve got to be winning games straightaway. They will be scarred a little bit from the Ole thing. If the Ole thing hadn’t have happened then it would probably be more likely.
"But if Michael has got to go up against, say, Thomas Tuchel in the summer then there’s only one winner if you’re looking at coaching big clubs and winning big prizes so you can’t really compete with that."
Nicky Butt, appearing alongside his former teammate, agreed. He suggested the interim boss is "bright and intelligent" enough to know his role is simply to get the club moving in the right direction for the next incoming manager, rather than campaigning for the position himself.