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West Brom keeper Johnstone has no regrets leaving Man Utd

West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnstone has no regrets leaving Manchester United.

Johnstone took his first professional steps out on loan. He had productive spells away from Old Trafford - at Oldham Athletic, Scunthorpe United, Walsall, Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers and Preston North End - before joining former United skipper Steve Bruce at Aston Villa in 2017 for a seventh loan spell.

He told Sky Sports: "I properly wanted to leave Manchester United before I went to Villa as I felt it was time to go, I'd had a few loans and been promoted at Preston.

"When Jose Mourinho came in he let me go to Villa which was great for me to get that next step. I knew as soon as I got to Villa that I wasn't going back to United."

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