Rio Ferdinand revealed Paul Scholes would 'kick through' Paul Pogba during Manchester United training sessions.
Speaking on BT Sport, the former England captain detailed how young stars at Old Trafford would be routinely subjected to physical sessions upon being promoted to train alongside the senior players.
Ferdinand added that a young Paul Pogba was frequently roughoused by senior players, with Paul Scholes being particularly relentless in his kicking.
'You know young lads when they come over, the managers do like to see them get kicked about,' Ferdinand explained.
'Paul Pogba was a young, super gifted player; Scholsey, in particular used to just launch him. Whether he used to see him as a threat I dunno but he used to launch him, just kick him.
'He was so big and strong Paul and with that great footwork and everything and he would hold Scholsey off and Scholes would just kick through him and he'd lay on the floor and go like, "what's going on?" We just kept on playing, but that's part of it, it's character building.'
The Frenchman was first called up to United's first team in February of 2011, in what was initially set to be Scholes' final season during his illustrious tenure with the club prior to retirement.
Pogba would depart Old Trafford the following season having failed to break into the club's side during Sir Alex Ferguson's penultimate season with the club.
After four seasons in Serie A with Juventus, Pogba returned to United in 2016 for a world-record fee but failed to consistently deliver the kind of performances he had displayed in Turin, with Scholes offering a scathing assessment of his second stint at the club prior to his departure last summer.
'I was there when he was a kid and this lad has got absolutely everything you would want in a footballer and a midfield player. Scholes told talkSPORT last year.
'His physique, he can run. I just don't think he's ever learned as a footballer, he constantly seems to make the same mistakes over and over again.
'It's disappointing. For some reason, at Man United, it hasn't worked out. It's a big disappointment. You see what he does with France.'