Joleon Lescott

Game time is game time.

And I don't think there's any player that's been on loan that's regretted it.

And they would say they would have liked to have done it earlier.

So we try to get footage of them speaking to the younger players about kind of preparing them and helping them face the challenges that they're going to face.

Yeah, I know, depending kind of the situation you're going into.

I think you're referring to Sunderland, maybe?

Yes, I am.

So, again, I was training with the...

City 23s at the time, just trying to get fit.

I'd been in Greece and that didn't work out.

So I came back and then just wanted to get to a fitness level where I thought I could perform.

And then got the call from David Moyes to come up there.

And again, I just thought I was going to go up there and have a little chat and do a fitness test.

And literally went there and put me through some...

like extreme testing, which I'm happy to say I passed and then signed the following day and kind of just joined the team.

But again, I knew a lot of the players and obviously then I was continuing my career, so a lot of the players knew me as well.

Yeah, again, but again, no one knew, everyone had the same kind of thought process of me going there.

That was totally different to my first transfer, which again wasn't January, but when I went to Everton the first time, that was daunting.

Again, players not knowing me, what position I played in, so that was a totally different experience to the last one.

I would say so, due to the success.