Manchester City youngster Oleksandr Zinchenko has admitted that he was crying when he discovered that club captain Vincent Kompany was set to leave.
Kompany made a surprise announcement at the end of last season, which put an end to his 11 year spell at City.
Despite being a relatively new member of the first team, Ukraine international Zinchenko took the loss of his captain very strongly.
"I was crying because nobody was expecting that," Zinchenko said to reporters.
"But that's football, nobody knows what could happen.
"I would like to stay in touch with him. For me he is absolutely a life legend. I am so lucky.
"Last season he was helping me a lot. Outside the pitch, inside the pitch, about this position.
"I remember a few times he took me after some training sessions, he was working with me around 40 minutes or something to try and help me."