Premiership: United new boys to get kid glove treatment
Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed that summer recruits Juan Sebastian Veron and Ruud van Nistelrooy will be saved for Manchester United's bigger matches this season.
With a star-studded squad at his disposal, Ferguson insists he will avoid burning out his top players by employing a strategic rotation policy.
Ferguson said: "I will have a team for the Champions League and the big fixtures in the Premiership like Arsenal, Liverpool and Leeds, and at other times I will changes things around.
"One thing I do know is that Juan Veron and Ruud van Nistelrooy will certainly be key players for us in Europe and, from time to time, Veron will need to take a breather.
"Maybe I'll also change the formation at certain times for some of our Premiership games. I plan to experiment a little before the season starts.
"I want to see how we'd operate with three in the middle of the park or with Veron or Scholes moved forward into an attacking role.
"At times we will look like a different United but that should not alter what we are as a team or how effective we are.
"I know we will be very powerful in midfield and that's important because in my experience most games are won by the team who has control of the midfield.
"With Veron and Roy Keane in the middle for us we will be awesome, I'm sure."
