Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes admits losing the title to Manchester City burns him up.

Scholes says City are deserved champions.

He told the Sunday Mirror: "You always say the best team wins the league - and City were the best team last year.

"The football they played for most of the season was ­fantastic. As much as I don't want to admit it, they were good to watch and probably played the best ­football.

"So from that ­aspect, they were the best team and deserved to win it. They have raised the bar and it's up to us to now kick on and do even better than they did. I haven't seen all of what happened at City on the final day, although I have seen little bits of them celebrating when Aguero scored.

"I haven't even seen them lifting the trophy.

"But it's always a motivating factor when you lose the league - and perhaps we will be motivated even more after what happened.

"It isn't nice when you see another team winning the title on the last day of the season. You have that picture in your head of them ­celebrating and you don't want it to happen again."