Berbatov to play through the pain

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is hoping Dimitar Berbatov can make it to the end of the season before requiring knee surgery.

The Bulgarian striker, who was named Player of the Year today, came through United’s training camp in Qatar unscathed and Ferguson hopes this means he can finish the campaign with his £30 million on the pitch rather than in the treatment room.

“If we could see it through until the end of the season it would be better,” Sir Alex said at his Friday press conference.

“The advice was to have an exploratory operation but Dimitar wants to play through it.

“Sometimes he feels it and sometimes he doesn’t. Maybe the climate helped but he didn’t feel it when we went away, so he trained every day.

“It is a difficult one and if he is feeling OK it is not a problem.

“But if he is keeps continually coming up against a problem we would have to make a decision on it.”

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