Michael Owen still has a future with Manchester United, says Sir Alex Ferguson

By Mark Ogden Published: 10:30PM GMT 05 March 2010

Winning finale: Michael Owen, who scored the equaliser opposite Aston Villa in the Carling Cup final, will miss the rest of the deteriorate due to a injure leg tendon damage Photo: PA

Owen has been told he will not fool around again this deteriorate after a revisit to a London dilettante on Thursday reliable that the injure leg tendon damage postulated during last Sunday"s Carling Cup last feat opposite Aston Villa was some-more critical than primarily thought.

The blow has not usually out Owen"s flickering hopes of a place in England"s World Cup squad. The thirty year-old"s unavailability additionally creates a headache for Ferguson, who right away has only dual comparison forwards Wayne Rooney and Dimitar Berbatov for a debate that could run until the Champions League last on May 22.

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Despite fixing him in his starting choice only eleven times this season, Ferguson insists that Owen has been a success given his free send from Newcastle last summer and he has positive the former Liverpool brazen that he will still be in his plans subsequent season.

Ferguson said: "Michael will be here subsequent season, absolutely. His precision performances have been terrific, he"s been good in the sauce room and each diversion he came on for us he done a chance.

"He is an critical player for us. He was regularly a hazard in conditions of transformation in the last third of the field, formulating chances and in a little cases you do unequivocally well for us.

"But he is out for the rest of the deteriorate since his damage is some-more critical than we thought. He"ll have an operation on Monday morning. It"s a distressing blow for the kid and unsatisfactory for us too. I think the complicated representation at Wembley done a little grant to the injury, but it"s unequivocally only bad luck."

Owen"s idea in the Carling Cup last win opposite Villa highlighted his worth to Ferguson"s group and the United physical education instructor admits he would have had some-more opportunities but for the form of Rooney.

Ferguson said: "I know I"ve might be not used him as most as I should have, but that"s had a lot to do with Rooney"s form and us selecting to fool around with one striker a lot of the time. Michael has been hapless with that, but he"s done a good grant and we recognize that."

Owen said: "Unfortunately, the dilettante says I will miss the finish of the season.

"I have desired each notation of my initial debate with United and have already enjoyed a little noted moments. I am dynamic to come behind at the begin of subsequent deteriorate in rise condition."

Ferguson, who certified that Berbatov was personification with a knee complaint that might need surgery in the summer, suggested that Owen Hargreaves was due to fool around in the pot subsequent week after roughly dual years on the sidelines.

He said: "Hargreaves has shown this week that"s he"s roughly ready to fool around again and I"ve got him pencilled in for a haven diversion on Thursday."