Fergie will help choose successor

Sir Alex Ferguson will help Manchester United to plan for his succession, according to the club's chief executive David Gill. “The owners and myself and people involved will obviously get his views. Somebody who has managed the club for so many years," says Gill in the Times, "who knows it inside out and who knows what is required would be invaluable. It would be remiss of us not to have a discussion with him and involve him and get his views. He will be a key part of the process.” Ferguson himself has recently said that he will have retired from the managership by the summer of 2010, giving him just two more seasons at Old Trafford.