Marcus Rashford was a team-mate at Manchester United, but I'm at Motherwell now, says star

Sean Goss came through the ranks at Manchester United alongside superstars like Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay, but says playing first-team football for Motherwell is what all of that was about.

German-born midfielder Goss, 26, was at Exeter City as a youth from 2004-12, and then moved to boyhood heroes Manchester United, under the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson.

Goss never played a first-team game, but came through with players like Andreas Pereira, Marcus Rashford and Scott McTominay. He played in the Youth Champions League and was 19th man for a Champions League clash at Wolfsburg in 2015.

While Rashford and McTominay have gone on to star for England and Scotland, respectively, Goss moved to Queen's Park Rangers and spent time on loan at Rangers and St Johnstone, before landing at Shrewsbury town for two years, and now Motherwell.

He says the whole experience at Old Trafford was brilliant, but ultimately it was about securing regular first-team football, which he is starting to get at Fir Park.

He said: "It was great. I was at Exeter City before that, so to go from a club like that to Man U, being a Man U fan as well, is what dreams are made of.

"It was obviously a massive change, going to a club that size, but I loved every minute of it.

"At our age group we had Andreas Pereira, Scott McTominay, Marcus Rashford came up and played with us quite a few times, and we've got other lads in and around all the other leagues as well.

"It helped, I don't think you can get a better grounding than being there as a young player.

"I've played in the Youth Champions' League, and I was 19th man for a Champions' League game at Man U when we played Wolfsburg as well. I didn't play in the first-team but I've had experience of being