Imo Saturday was an good indicator of how Ferguson rates Gibson's progress to date.
Essentially, he is a "second string" player, so will feature in "lesser" games and/or when MU have a lot of injuries in midfield.
However, he is not (yet) rated good enough by Ferguson to get in the 18-man squad for crucial games, such as the EPL or CL.
Which is no disgrace at all for one so young and inexperienced, but there must still be a question mark as to whether/when he can make the step up to making Fergie's matchday 18 for big games, as e.g. Evans, O'Shea and Brown have done, never mind whether he will become a regular starter in such games.
P.S. Saturday vs B'burn was
not the last game before the CC Final; there's the small matter of the San Siro to come first...
And Ferguson would
never risk fielding less than his best XI for an EPL game (at least before the title is secured), solely in order to give someone like Gibson "game time" for so relatively unimportant a game such as the CC Final.
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