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Sir Alex Ferguson will spend next week in New York raising the intriguing possibility of fresh talks with Pep Guardiola, Mirror.co.uk reported. 

Manchester United boss Fergie will fly to the States after Saturday's game against Sunderland, to conduct business in the Big Apple relating to his role as the club's ambassador to the Americas.

Ferguson owns an apartment in the city - where his eldest son Mark lives with his young family - which makes him a neighbour of former Barcelona manager Guardiola, who is renting a property overlooking Central Park for a year.

He has become close to Ferguson, who will visit New York just before Guardiola - who reportedly has the Arsenal job at the top of this Premier League list - is due to fly back to Spain for the Christmas period.

While United report no plans for any formal meeting between the pair next week, it is thought likely they will make space to talk - just as they did in September, in what Old Trafford officials called then a "chance meeting", despite the odds against such an event in the sprawling US city.

Ferguson's apartment is just a few blocks away from the building Guardiola now calls home, after deciding to take his family to America for a year, to sharpen their English language skills.