FERDINAND RELEGATED

Last updated : 24 August 2005 By Ed

"Ryan is only 31 and he can still have a great influence on the team. He has just been unlucky to have missed the first two weeks of the season with a chest infection.

"Maybe he won't charge down the wing every week as he used to. But I see him playing his remaining years up front behind the strikers. He has done it many times before and he has the speed and energy that you need to do well in a position like that."