Manchester United goalkeeper Sergio Romero insists that he will continue to fight for a place in the first team at Old Trafford and is happy at the club.
The Argentine international started the season as first choice between the sticks due to the uncertainty surrounding David de Gea’s future, but with the Spaniard signing a new contract, the 28-year old has been consigned to a place on the bench.
Romero has only made one appearance since the end of August, and that was in the Capital One Cup defeat to Middlesbrough last month. Despite this, the former AZ and Sampdoria keeper is not thinking about leaving the club, having only arrived this summer on a free transfer.
Speaking to ESPN FC, he said:
I am not really thinking [about the future], at least not in this moment. There is a lot of time to see what happens.
I don’t think too much in the future I prefer to live what is going on every day. In football, you never know what could happen. Today you play, tomorrow you don’t.
What I know is that you always have to be ready for when the chance comes. Nobody is the owner of any position in football.
I am happy at Manchester United. I am at one of the most important English teams and one of the most important teams in the world.
Romero also said that he was under no illusions that it would be easy to claim a first-team place at the Theatre of Dreams:
If I say no it would be a lie. But I knew from the first minute that it wasn’t going to be easy as there are guys in the team that have a great quality and that I was going to have to win my place.
In this job you have to show every day that you are the one that deserves the position. van Gaal is a very intelligent coach with a lot of experience. He knows what he does and what he decides is the best for the team.
We have to accept his decisions and wait for the moment in which he chooses you for playing. So, the only thing that you can do is to train hard, be in concentration all the time and when your chance arrives try to take advantage of it.
Romero remains Argentina’s first choice keeper as they play Brazil and Colombia in World Cup qualifying action during the international break, and he is happy that coach Gerardo Martino trusts him:
Martino trusts in my conditions. He asks me to do the same thing that I do at Manchester United.
van Gaal always wants me to play with my feet and to be an option for the defenders and that is very useful for me when I have to come to play for Argentina.
