Manchester United legend Gary Neville insists manager Sir Alex Ferguson will keep driving the club forward.

Neville believes it is the influence of United's own father figure that will ensure his own club remain at the forefront of the battle for honours.

"You feed off the manager," he said.

"It is like your parents or a school teacher. His influences cannot help but rub off on you; your principles and how you live your life, how you want to be. The drive, determination and never-say-die attitude. If it doesn't rub off you won't be at the club anymore.

"All the players, whether they have silky skills or a tough-tackling defender need to have the same toughness. There has to be a relentlessness that allows you to last so long at one football club under him.

"It is not easy and he will find out the weak pretty quickly.

"But lots of people rise to it because they love playing for him. They want to win trophies and know to be at a club like that is the pinnacle."