I don’t know if I will take PhD students next year since I will be on leave for quite a lot of the time. But if you apply to the PhD program at xxx, I will certainly look out for your file. I don’t have any dedicated funds available, so your application would be considered against all the others as usual (funds usually come from central scholarship resources which are open to all subjects, and decisions are relatively late, unfortunately; applications should be in by December, we tend to interview in February and decisions are not until April or so).