Bayer Leverkusen striker Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez has left the door open on his future with the Bundesliga club beyond this summer.
Hernandez, 27, has scored 16 goals in 25 league games for Leverkusen this season and helped them climb up to third in the table. With four games left in the season, they are now in pole position to qualify automatically for the Champions League group stage having overtaken Hertha Berlin.
He limped off injured in Saturday's 3-0 win over struggling Eintracht Frankfurt with a minor shinebone injury, but should be available for the final games of the season.
But whether he will still be at Leverkusen next season is uncertain, as he told Bild in an interview before facing Frankfurt.
"My future doesn't only hinge on me," he said. "I live in the here and now. You can plan everything in life, but sometimes life plans for you.
"The club, which owns you, decides whether it still needs you or wants to sell you. It's just like that in [the] football business."
However, he did hint that his club's move up the Bundesliga table back into the Champions League places could influence his decision.
"We want to qualify for the Champions League, without the playoffs," he added. "Everyone wants to play in the best competition in this world."
Before joining Leverkusen last summer, Hernandez spent a year on loan at Real Madrid, where he found it difficult to break into the starting lineup ahead of the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal then told the player he would not be a guaranteed starter for the Red Devils, and Chicharito left for Germany during the final days of last summer's transfer window.
However, the Mexican knows the trust he was shown at Leverkusen has been instrumental for his performances this season.
He said: "I am very thankful, and give my all for the club."
And on his 16 league goals he added: "It's because I have never had as many starts as here at Bayer. There is no other secret."
Despite being cast aside by Van Gaal, Hernandez still believes that the under-pressure United boss can prove to be a success at Old Trafford in the long term.
"He is a really good manager to be honest," Hernandez told Sky Sports. "He has his own ways like all the managers in the world.
"You will not find the new Sir Alex Ferguson in the next 50 or 100 years because he was unique. He was special.
"Van Gaal can do it but in football, time and results are going to speak about if he is the main man or if he is not."