Scott McTominay goes into Manchester United's milestone game at home to Everton on Sunday convinced that the club's new generation can bring the glory days back to Old Trafford.

It will be the 4,000th fixture in a row that United have had a player produced by their academy in the match-day squad, a remarkable sequence stretching back to 1937.

The long list of graduates includes McTominay, the Scotland midfielder who has established himself as a key figure under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer this season, and he believes that a club famous for producing the Busby Babes and Class of '92 is on the cusp of something unique again.

Scott McTominay is convinced that the club's new generation can bring back the glory days

'This place is special,' said McTominay. 'I've said it many times before and we're coming back up.

'You have to have top-class players, but then you also have to have top young players who are wanting to come in and learn as well. That's the balance that not every club in the world can get.

'It's not just playing academy players for the sake of it, it's playing them because the manager believes in those players and believes he can win trophies playing us.

'Hopefully next season and in the seasons to come we can go on and win trophies as well. That's got to be the dream.

'I need that thrill of winning trophies and especially at this football club - there's nowhere better to do it.'

On the 4,000th milestone, McTominay added: 'It's amazing. Whenever we were in the youth team, we always had different members of staff saying to us about the consecutive games we've had with a player from the academy.

'When you think you have 50 to 60 games a season, to get to 4,000 is incredible.' McTominay has first-hand experience of what is required to make it as a player at United. He insists it has as much to do with a young player's character and temperament off the pitch as what they can produce on it.

'Whenever we were growing up here, the main thing that was being spoken about here was being a good person first and foremost,' he said. 'A Man United person is always someone who's polite, humble, got respect for people, but as soon as they get on the pitch they've always got that little bit of an edge to them. They're always different to other players.

'Whenever league managers ask a reserve team manager for a Man Utd player, they always know what type of person and player they're getting, so it's a real credit.

'Just general standards in day-to-day life: going to school, being punctual, always wearing black boots until you get to the reserve team, where maybe you've got a different boot contract and stuff like that.

The Scotland midfielder has established himself as a key figure under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

'I didn't like the black boots but you had to do it. You had to respect the rules. I probably couldn't tell you one player in the club who likes wearing black boots, but it was the rules. If someone tried to come out in red boots it's like "you're no different to any of us, so get your black boots back on until you earn the respect and right to wear coloured boots".

'There are no big egos, no young kids coming in wearing jewellery and looking a bit flash, that's not the case at this club. If a young player is doing that in the canteen, I would certainly be one to say something and the same with other boys in the first-team, and the manager as well.

'They're just fine details that bring you up as a person, it brings you up to be respectful, hard-working, humble and respect those around you.

'You don't realise at the time how much little things like that are going to help you. You think, "this is rubbish" and "what's going on?" but then you get older, you look back and you think all of those little things have stood you in so much good stead.

'Being one of the older academy players now, those standards have been passed through, so everybody has the idea of what a Manchester United player should look and be like, the DNA that comes with wearing that badge.'