"This is real football now" - Manchester United starlet lifts lid on loan success and Michael Carrick guidance

"This is real football now.

"It isn't youth, anything else, this is proper.

"The tempo here is very fast as well.

"You've got to be on the ball, concentrate for the 90 minutes, otherwise you'll get punished."

It would be very understandable for Dylan Levitt to be feeling low on confidence after his loan experiences last season.

Highly rated since he joined the United Youth Academy at the age of just eight, Levitt finally stepped away from the academy comfort bubble, spending time at Charlton Athletic and NK Istra 1961 as he looked to take those first steps into senior football.

The Bodelwyddan-born midfielder would make just five appearances at Charlton and a further nine in Croatia as he got an eye-opening look at senior football and what it really takes to make it in the professional game.

Ever since being a child, that has been the dream.

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Like many children in North East Wales, Levitt grew up as an avid supporter of Manchester United, idolising Paul Scholes as well as Andreas Iniesta as he made his own initial steps as a central midfielder.

During his own fledgling career, he has been lucky enough to learn from some of the best. At club level, it has been Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic, while others have been the likes of Joe Allen and Aaron Ramsey on the international stage.

It was after those two loans that he worked closely with Michael Carrick and Darren Fletcher, another two of the players he used to idolise as he grew up in Flint, hoping to spark his own footballing career alight.

"I hope that can continue," he told the Manchester Evening News. "I learned a lot from them as well. Fletcher and Carrick were a big part of