Wan-Bissaka was converted from a winger to a full back and has never looked back

When charting the dizzying ascent of Aaron Wan-Bissaka, there really is only one place to begin. The day that altered a young Crystal Palace winger’s career path is well chronicled but worth recounting given how transformational it has proved.

A Thursday morning first-team training session in late 2016 and Kevin Keen, the then first-team coach, calls for a few under-23 players to make up the numbers. With the under-23 right back injured, Wan-Bissaka gets the call. Not only is the 18-year-old asked to play out of position, but he is set with the unenviable task of marking perhaps the Premier League’s most devastating winger, Wilfried Zaha.

Wan-Bissaka posted a picture of himself as a child in a United shirt

Time and again, Zaha runs at the callow, makeshift right back, to no avail. “I can remember Wilf [Zaha]