Edwin relaxed over future
As he prepares to enter the final year of his contract, Edwin van
der Sar says he is not thinking about life beyond the upcoming
season.
The Dutch goalkeeper, who joined the Reds in June 2005, is out of
contract at the end of the 2007/08 campaign.
A cruciate ligament injury to returning loan stopper Ben Foster
means van der Sar will definitely start the season as number one
and the 36-year-old says he is focused on helping the team do well,
rather than worrying about where he will be this time next
year.
"I don't know what is going to happen at the end of the season," he
admits. "I am at a certain stage in my life when you just take it
step-by-step.
"When you are 28 you might sign a four-or-five year deal, it is the
same when you are 21. I am not that age, so I am not worried about
the situaion.
"When you reach my age, you have to take it like that both in terms
of the club and the player. You must always try to keep the
pleasure in your game.
"When you don't have that 100 per cent desire any more, you can
stop or go to a lower level or whatever."
Van der Sar has been a solid performer for the Reds during his
two-year stay at Old Trafford. But he is the first to admit that
his displays towards the end of the last campaign were not at the
level they should be.
"I didn't have the same consistency at the end of the season as I
had in the previous part of the season," he says. "I don't know
why.
"It is difficult to be 100% over the whole year. There were a
couple of things not to my satisfaction. Of course, you think about
your mistakes, you analyse them. Then you have to get on with
it."
