All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.