fault. I'm in a great club with a coach I respect 200
percent. There has been no discussion between Alex Ferguson
and me. I don't see the point of such a discussion.
"I'm not playing, that's the way it is. I keep working and I
don't want to go anywhere else. What do you want me to do?
Go away and cry about my situation? Ferguson is the boss, he
decides. I don't have the right to say who's right and who's
wrong.
"I have had no explanation from Ferguson, we haven’t spoken
about anything and I don’t feel I need to have any
conversation with him. People say that we don’t get on well
but that is absolutely wrong. We get on very well.
"I'm 32, I still want to play football, but that is the way
it is. My current situation is that I play for a great club,
I respect my coach, he trusted me and protected me. I
actually don’t feel any injustice or frustration. I don’t
have to ask him why I am sidelined. If I don’t play it is
because he has his own reasons. He makes his decisions. I
have nothing to say, he is the boss. I am on excellent terms
with him and the rest of the staff at United.
"You know, in a football player’s career there are ups and
downs. Not playing is not a catastrophe for me. A
catastrophe would be to have health problems or a broken
leg. I have been experiencing fantastic things with football
in the past 10 years and maybe it is better to let go
sometimes. If this had happened to me 10 years ago I would
have probably reacted a different way. I would have probably
blamed the coach.
"This current situation confirms what I have been told for
so many years, that once you are at the top, there is never
any guarantee that you will stay at the top. I have nothing
to blame myself for. And I keep working, the same way I have
been training for the past 15 years."