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Fergie's Vidic dilemma

Image: Vidic: In demand for club and country

Sir Alex Ferguson will have the final say over whether Nemanja Vidic plays for Manchester United or Serbia this weekend.

Boss to make final call in club v country debate

Sir Alex Ferguson will have the final say over whether Nemanja Vidic plays for Manchester United or Serbia next weekend. Ferguson is not due back at United's Carrington training complex until Thursday but the Scot has been alerted to Vidic's possible participation in his country's twice-postponed Euro 2008 qualifier with Kazakhstan. Uefa have confirmed that, although the game is a competitive one, as it now falls outside a Fifa allocated 'international window' - thanks to the heavy snowfalls that have hit Belgrade - Serbia have no automatic right to the keep the defender after Wednesday's clash with Poland. It means that Ferguson must decide whether to release Vidic from Saturday's clash with Bolton. The dilemma is made more tricky at the moment because Serbia still have an outside chance of qualifying. However, that remote hope will be extinguished if Portugal pick up a point from their home game with Finland. Ferguson has further problems with Carlos Tevez not due back to training until Friday after completing Argentina's World Cup qualifier in Colombia.