Soccer: My best is yet to come - Giggs

Ryan Giggs is happy to commit his peak years to Manchester United as he believes the club will still be successful after Alex Ferguson retires.

Ferguson will stand down as manager at the end of next season and the whole football world will be watching to see if that will signal the end of United's glory run.

Giggs does not think it will and he is so confident he has agreed a five-year deal to keep him at Old Trafford until 2006.

Giggs has won 11 major honours since making his senior debut as a 17-year-old in March 1991 and he feels he will get his hands on plenty more silverware over the next five years.

"Obviously it's going to be a big blow, but whoever comes in is going to have their own ideas and things will be different," Giggs said.

"It will be strange because I've only ever played under the gaffer, but that didn't really come into it because I love playing for the club and I want that to continue.

"You see a lot of players now moving about, but I have never wanted to go anywhere else really.

"We are always involved in trophies and that's what you want as a player.

"You want to win things and I have been lucky enough as a player to win things, but I want to win more.

"We are always up there in the Champions League, which is important, and we are always consistent in our own league."

Giggs' contract, which he cannot sign until July 1 because of the passing of the transfer deadline, is reportedly worth £10m.

He intends to repay United for doubling his wages by producing the best football of his career.

"I feel like these are going to be my peak years really, 27 to 30 or 31 and I want to be at Manchester United for hopefully what will be my best days," he said.

"Hopefully that will come and I will get better as a player and I think it will help if I'm playing with players of the calibre of Manchester United players."

Giggs, 27, follows Andy Cole and Jaap Stam in committing his long-term future to United and the club will now turn their attention to the five other players on their contract hitlist, which is topped by David Beckham.

The champions hope to tie up Beckham, Paul Scholes, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and the Neville brothers by the end of the summer.