Everton midfielder James Garner has no regrets leaving Manchester United last year.

Garner could be pushing for regular football at United if he'd stayed.

But he told the Liverpool Echo: "I definitely had conversations with him but I'd just come off the back of a good season, probably the best season I possibly could have had so I didn't want to stagnate and sit on the bench week in, week out.

"Nothing is promised in football but when they start signing three, four midfielders you kind of understand your place. It was a decision that I wanted to make as soon as I went back, to go find first-team football somewhere else.

"He was honest with me, told me what he thought and said nothing was promised. I made a decision, some people might have thought it was the wrong one at the time but I knew it was the right one because I didn't want to stagnate when I'd just had such a good season, I wanted to go out and prove to everyone and prove to myself that I can play at the top level."