Boss' Tour Squad Hints

Sir Alex Ferguson has hinted at his squad plans for the DHL tour this summer as he deals with the issues thrown up by the European Championship and the Olympics.

The United boss will be robbed of the services of the likes of Wayne Rooney, Nani and Ryan Giggs but can still call upon plenty of star names - including new No7 Antonio Valencia and recent recruit Shinji Kagawa.

Although England's participation in the European Under-19 finals in Estonia was deemed a potential problem, with three youngsters involved, there are likely to be spaces for several of the club's exciting prospects.

"It’s been very difficult trying to gauge what players I can take on the tour because I want to represent us in the proper way," explained the boss to MUTV. "When we go to the Far East in particular, we have such a great fan-base over there and we don’t want to let them down.

"We should have a good group of players going on tour. Obviously the players who played in the European Championship won’t be involved [except Anders Lindegaard] and Ryan Giggs and Tom Cleverley won’t be involved because they’re at the Olympics.

"But, other than that, we have Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans, Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Chicharito, Antonio Valencia… so we have a good standard of players going out there."