Vidic picked up the injury in the Champion’s league defeat away to Basle and it was confirmed by his agent that he has suffered a rupture of his cruciate ligament.
"Nemanja is out for the season," confirmed Ferguson on Friday. "It is bad news. He will be a loss."
"I thought it was a bad one when I saw it," he added. "He sees the specialist on Monday to map out the progress of when he has the operation. It won't be immediate because we have to let the swelling come down. It is a bit of a blow."
It merely adds injury to the insult of ending up in the Europa League, which Ferguson described as a "punishment" on Wednesday night. Those comments did not go down well with UEFA president Michel Platini, who made his irritation known. However, Ferguson has attempted to diffuse the row this morning.
"It is a good competition, a strong competition, you only have to see some of the teams that are left in it," Ferguson said.
"The point I made about it being a punishment was only in the sense of for 20 years, this club has only thought about the Champions League. We have just thought about winning that European Cup.
"The punishment is the big disappointment of not challenging for it this year, having been in three finals in the last four years. It was not a slight against the Europa League. It is a competition we want to win."
Source: FOOTYMAD
