When the moment comes, when you know you’ve achieved it, the feeling is very special.

You just close your eyes, raise your arms and feel nothing but pure enjoyment.

It’s been nearly seven years since I moved to Old Trafford, but when I look back I remember that it was amazing from the first day. I came quite late in the transfer window, I think I arrived on the Friday, then on the Monday was the first game against Everton away. It was good, I had a couple of sessions but then obviously it wasn’t ideal to lose my first game.

After that, the following week I had my first home game, against Fulham, when I scored a nice goal. That’s always a very good start, winning your first home game and scoring too. That was so exciting because you never know which way it will go at a new club, and scoring sooner rather than later was great for me.

I think my age was a big part of the reason I settled quickly. I had played for eight years in England already, so I got used to the playing style. For United, it was not a case of getting a young player in. I was used to England and how games were played. Of course, it wasn’t easy because you have to adapt to your new team-mates and so on, but it was easier than the time when I arrived at Arsenal eight years before that. That was a new language to learn, a new country, so that was more difficult.