Man Utd to offer Ferdinand new deal

Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed that the club will discuss a new deal with Rio Ferdinand at the end of the season. There had been some suggestions that the Manchester United defender would quit Old Trafford at the end of the season.

Tottenham are believed to be long term admirers of the former Leeds United centre back, but at this stage nothing has been confirmed by either the player or his club.


Ferdinand has been with Man Utd for over a decade.


"It is all down to how he feels physically himself," Ferguson said. "What he is doing at the moment is good.


"He has no issues at all. From time to time, he gets the odd tweak in his back and we have to manage it and look after it. But it hasn't surprised me in the sense that he's still young for a centre-back.


"In normal terms, you would expect a centre-back, with his athleticism, to play well into their thirties anyway. But he had the back problem, so we've had to manage that and by managing it properly, he has adapted really well to it.


"So if you look to last week - I didn't want to play him against Bilbao but, with Jones calling off with 'flu, I played him and he also played on the Sunday against Wolverhampton."