Pressed on whether it is ­unsettling for the rest of the United squad not to know whether the club’s player of the year for the past two seasons is staying, Van Gaal said: “We have coped with the ­situation by buying Romero. That is what we have done as a club to settle down that ­issue and I think we have done it well. You are ­asking now things that you don’t know, that I don’t know. You think you are smarter than I but it is not like that.”