Ruud van Nistelrooy insists that he wants to stay at Real Madrid and is adamant that this squad can win multiple championships.

Van Nistelrooy has declared that he will not mope around about his situation at the Bernabeu, as he has fallen out of the rotation in Manuel Pellegrini's first team.

"That's why I'm still here," van Nistelrooy told Marca.

"Given what happened in the cup, both the team and myself need to improve. I'm training and getting better, but I'm not stupid - I know what the situation is but I won't give up.

"I'm going to try, I will give everything to play. If it doesn't prove to be enough at the end of the season, we'll see, but I will do everything to return," he added.

"I want to finish how I started with Real Madrid, and my physical condition is key to this. And after the game in the cup I knew I was fine in this sense.

"If you have a knee that says it can't go on, you say 'fine, it's impossible to return to my best level. But Tuesday was an important day because after the game I saw that it was fine.

"My body has responded and this gives me hope to return to where I was before."