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Ryan Giggs has returned from holiday and is ready to end his 29-year association with Manchester United.

United's most decorated player is back from a break in Dubai and is said to be ready to leave Old Trafford for a new challenge.

Giggs, who served as United No.2 under Louis van Gaal, has been offered a lesser role under newly-appointed boss Jose Mourinho.

Although Giggs has a huge emotional bond with United, it is understood he is ready to break it to prove himself as a manager in his own right.

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United are keen for Giggs, 42, to stay but understand his reluctance to accept a less prominent role under Mourinho, who is bringing in his own backroom team.

The self-styled Special One will appoint long-standing assistant Rui Faria as his No.2, meaning any subsequent role Giggs accepts will be a step down for the United legend, who made 963 appearances for them.

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The role Giggs has been offered at United is understood to be within the Academy, which is headed up by his former team-mate and close friend Nicky Butt.

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After a year as a player-coach under Moyes and two seasons as Van Gaal's assistant, Giggs now considers himself ready to take on a managerial role and prove himself outside of Old Trafford.

Giggs is desperate to manage United but, having been twice overlooked for the role, when David Moyes and Van Gaal were sacked, accepts he must move on elsewhere.

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Ryan Giggs' Man United honours

Premier League (13) - 1992-93, 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2012-13

FA Cup (4) - 1993-94, 1995-96, 1998-99, 2003-04

League Cup (3) - 1991-92, 2005-06, 2008-09

Community Shield (9) - 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2013

Champions League (2) - 1998-99, 2007-08

UEFA Super Cup (1) - 1991

Intercontinental Cup (1) - 1999

Club World Cup (1) - 2008

25 Facts about Ryan Giggs

1. He won 34 trophies. That's nine more than Manchester City have won in their entire history.

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2. His Premier League playing career lasted 7,934 days.

3. That is the longest Premier League playing career by a whopping 1,122 days. That means his career was more than THREE YEARS longer than the guy in second place (sorry, Paul Scholes).

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4. If you include the 18 months he spent playing in the old First Division (before it turned into the Premier League), his total career spanned 8,466 days.

5. If a player made his debut today and played for the same length of time as Giggs, he would make his final appearance on 7 May 2039.

6. If George Best had played for Man United for as long as Giggs did, he would have played under Sir Alex Ferguson.

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7. He holds the record for Premier League assists, with 162.

8. In fact, he's made 59 per cent more assists than any other Premier League player (Lampard is second on the list, with 102).

9. Phil Jones wasn’t born when Giggs made his Man United debut.

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10. He made 632 Premier League appearances.

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11. He STARTED 522 of those. Only four Premier League players have made more appearances than that IN TOTAL (Gary Speed, David James, Gareth Barry and Frank Lampard).

12. Only 12 TEAMS have played more Premier League games than Giggs: Chelsea, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Tottenham, Man United. Everton, Liverpool, Newcastle, West Ham, Man City, Blackburn and Southampton.

13. He played a grand total of 46,433 minutes of Premier League football.

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14. Giggs picked up more Premier League yellow cards (37) than Vinnie Jones (36).

15. He played 1,027 games in total.

16. He holds the record for the quickest Man United goal: after 15 seconds, against Southampton in November 1995.

17. He has been substituted more times than any other player in Premier League history (134).

18. He made 151 Champions League appearances, third on the all-time list behind Xavi (157) and Iker Casillas (158)… and the exact same number of Champions League games Chelsea have played in their entire history.

19. Ryan Giggs played in his own testimonial. It was against Celtic in 2002 and he was just 29.

20. Giggs was the first person to ever win the PFA Young Player of the Year Award two seasons in a row (1991/92 and 1992/93).

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21. Giggs was the second midfielder to reach 100 goals for one club (after Matt Le Tissier).

22. He is the only man to have played in 19 Champions League campaigns.

23. When Giggs first scored for United, petrol was less than 40p a litre.

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24. Giggs played against a ridiculous 117 teams over the course of his career.

25. He scored 168 goals in total for United. Despite not being known as a goalscorer, only six men have scored more for the club (George Best, Dennis Viollet, Jack Rowley, Denis Law, Wayne Rooney and Sir Bobby Charlton).