“He said Liverpool. We’d already spoken to City. Then he said United had come in. And I said ‘when am I meeting Sir Alex? Where’s the pen?’ There was no other place I wanted to go."

The 34-year-old spoke to Sam Homewood in this week’s episode of our official podcast, which is available to listen to on Deezer and other podcast providers from tomorrow (Tuesday).

As well as guiding us through his early career at Watford and Aston Villa, our no. 18 sheds some light on how his move to Old Trafford came about.

“I spoke to the [Aston Villa] chairman Randy Lerner, at the time, and he was desperate for me not to leave,” said Young.

“I wanted to leave in 2010. We’d spoken when I first came and [the goal] was to break into the top four.