Top player Gibby can score 10 this season: Ferguson

MANCHESTER United manager Alex Ferguson believes Londonderry star Darron Gibson has all the ability to be a "top player."

The United gaffer told Sentinel Sport he thinks Gibby could even be his long term replacement for legend Paul Scholes.

"Without question he has got the ability to be a top player," declared Ferguson.

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"He's got the energy, the power, the physique, he has got shooting ability from outside the box and not every player in the game has got that and that's also with either foot and he's improving all the time."

Gibson grabbed six goals last season for the Red Devils and Ferguson thinks with more game time he'll score even more goals this campaign.

"We expect Darron to play a big part this season," he added.

"Last year he made his mark in a big way, because he scored six goals and we don't have a player like that.

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"With the aging process of Paul Scholes, when Paul was young at Darron's age he got me 15 goals a season, but he would have been playing far more games than what Darron played last season.

"I hope I can say this but if I was to give Darron 20 odd games then he's going to give me 10 goals easily and that would be a big contribution from him."

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