Fergie Backs Ronaldo Double Award

Cristiano Ronaldo has been backed to win both the European and the World player of the Year Awards, by Sir Alex Ferguson!

"Cristiano will win both player of the year awards, I am sure of it," said Ferguson. "If he doesn't, I want to sign the guy who does."

United do battle with Celtic in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday and Ferguson has hinted Ronaldo may be dropped from the starting line-up following his recent exertions for Portugal.

"Carlos (Queiroz) feels Cristiano is still finding it hard to recover from a Saturday game to a Wednesday," he continued.

"I need to look at this game and the fact it is on a Tuesday and assess whether to bring in Nani. Nani only played for 36 minutes for Portugal and 15 for us on Saturday so he is nice and fresh.

"When you get so many games in a row after an operation like that, the adrenalin helps you out once but then it dips. But the thing about Ronaldo is that with one flick he can score because he is such a talent in the box."