Scholes is coming in on back of Latics win
PAUL Scholes will today be announced as the new manager of Oldham Athletic.
The League Two side have called a press conference for 2pm at which the United legend will officially launch his managerial career.
Scholes was cleared to take up the position when the EFL decided the 44-year-old’s 10 per cent stake in National League club Salford would not represent a conflict of interest.
Oldham sacked Frankie Bunn in December and academy coach Pete Wild has been in caretaker charge.
The Latics, whose 3-0 win at Crawley on Saturday was their first in the league since New Year’s Day, are 14th in League Two and currently nine points off the play-off places.
Johan Branger-Engone, Zak Dearnley and Gevaro Nepomuceno all netted in the final 16 minutes for the Latics at Crawley in what was Wild’s final match in charge.
Branger-Engone broke the deadlock on 74 minutes with a superb 25-yard free-kick.
Dearnley, who was making his Latics debut while on loan from United, doubled Oldham’s lead 12 minutes later after a ball from Branger-Engone.
And Nepomuceno put the icing on the cake by squeezing the ball home from a tight angle in injury time.
Scholes’ first match in charge will be tomorrow night’s League Two clash with Yeovil Town at Boundary Park.