adminSaturday, is adamant he will not be doing any business in the transfer window unless it is to allow several of his reserve-team players to go out on loan.
Ferguson, who rarely takes advantage of the mid-season opportunity to augment his first-team squad, believes he has enough resources to cope with challenging for the Premier League title and the European and FA Cups.
“I will not be bringing anybody in, in January — definitely not,” he confirmed.
It means that while title rivals City are targeting Atletic Bilbao’s Fernano Llorente; Chelsea are ready to splash on Atletico Madrid’s Radamel Falcao and Walcott and Liverpool want Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge and Tom Ince from Blackpool, the United boss will stick with what he has as the club chase a 20th league title. Walcott’s future at Arsenal is in doubt with the club refusing to agree to his contract demands. But if the Gunners decide to cash in on the winger in January, he is now more likely to end up at Stamford Bridge than Old Trafford. Goals from Robin van Persie, Tom Cleverley and Wayne Rooney were enough to claim all three points.
Ferguson also believes Cleverley has taken his game to another level for the English Premier League leaders. England midfielder Cleverley (23) has emerged as a key man for Ferguson, whose side are six points clear at the top of the Premier League.
He impressed in the 3-2 win at Manchester City last weekend and built on that with a good performance and a goal in the 3-1 victory over Sunderland on Saturday that helped Ferguson’s men keep City in their wake.
Cleverley missed much of last season due to injury and having made only five Premier League starts in the whole of the last campaign, he has already managed nine this time around.
“He did very well in the derby and he deserves his position,” said Ferguson.
“We have a lot of options in midfield — Anderson’s injured at the moment, but (Darren) Fletcher’s there, (Paul) Scholes is there, (Ryan) Giggs is there.
“People keep saying we’re weak in midfield, but these are very good players and sometimes it gives me a bit of a problem selecting the right two. It was simple because after last week (against City), Cleverley and (Michael) Carrick deserved to play again.”
Ferguson’s team have now won 10 of their last 11 league matches. And the United manager, who confirmed that right-back Rafael missed the game with a hamstring problem, felt that some of the interplay against Sunderland was as good as they have produced all season. Goals from Robin van Persie and Cleverley gave the hosts a half-time lead and Wayne Rooney added a third before the hour, only for United old boy Fraizer Campbell to pull one back late on for the Black Cats.
Ferguson added: “Some of the play was terrific and I don’t know whether we relaxed at 3-0 or whether Sunderland got a grip of the game, but in the last 20 minutes, Sunderland played very well and they could have scored two or three goals. — Mailonline.
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