Preston North End boss Darren Ferguson has revealed Tom Cleverley will be staying at Manchester United next season.

The England U21 winger has spent this term on-loan at Watford.

Ferguson told the Lancashire Evening Post: "Tom Cleverley won't be going out on loan next season, he'll be at United. He is a big part of their first-team plans.

"Tom is player I know plenty about, I tried to get him when I was at Peterborough. The lad is a good player, he wouldn't be at United if he wasn't.

"There is no truth in the fact that he is going to come here, or for that matter, anywhere else. I'm pretty certain of that after speaking to my dad, he's going back to United. People of his age, players like Danny Welbeck, will go out on loan for a certain period of time and then that's them."