GIGGS HINTS AT SUMMER RETIREMENT
Veteran midfielder Ryan Giggs has conceded this season
could be his last for Manchester United.
Giggs, who recently turned 37, is on the brink of making his
850th senior appearance for the club and has regularly viewed
December as decision time regarding his future.
The Welshman will mark the 20th anniversary of his United debut
next March, but having just made 10 appearances this season due to
a hamstring injury he admits it is by no means certain he will make
it that far.
Giggs told The Daily Telegraph: "For me, where I'm at right now
is the thought that I've had a stop-start season, so I just want to
get back playing. "I'm not going to play every week, but I want a
consistent run over a couple of months to see where I'm at," he
said. "But it gets closer every year, the thinking that, 'This
could be my last season'.
"I'm closer this season than I was last season, but that's
probably because I haven't been playing regularly. "If I have a run
in the team and play well, then I will probably want to carry on.
If I don't, then I'll have to assess it. "But I think I have a
relationship with the manager where, if I really wasn't enjoying my
football or I didn't think I was being effective, I could just sit
down with him and we would both be honest to each other and say,
'Right, that's it'."
Giggs admits he has yet to grasp the thought of life after
playing. "I've been doing this for 20 years, so it will be strange
and weird when it stops," he said. "It's a scary thought, but not
one that I am too worried about, although I've no doubt that I will
be bored.
"I'll have to find something to do because I get bored when I
have a couple of days off. What I'll do, I just don't know. "You
speak to players who have finished playing and they just say that
you have to play as long as you can and enjoy it. That's what I'm
doing at the moment."
