When Sir Alex Ferguson's goalkeeping coach Eric Steele began the search for Edwin Van Der Sar's replacement in 2010, several names came to the fore.
David de Gea, of course, is the one United eventually landed but Manuel Neuer, a Schalke player at the time, was also under consideration. Long-term reports were also made on Sporting Lisbon's Rui Patricio and Maarten Stekelenberg, who is now at Everton. The fifth name on the list was an Argentine goalkeeper called Sergio Romero.
Steele admired his distribution, both in playing out from the back and dispatching the ball with precision with long throws from his penalty area.