Nottingham Forest captain Ryan Yates suggests he could have left the club in 2018.
The Forest academy product has been with the club since the year 2005, when he was a schoolboy.
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He has gone on to become a key player, starting all the games for the club in the Premier League this term.
But he admits it could have been different, telling The Guardian: "On deadline day I was going to Hull City… I was outside their stadium but they didn’t call me. I think they took someone else, so I was fired up when we played Hull."
Yates added: "I think people at Forest could see that even though I might have been a bit raw at the time, they could see how much it meant to me to play for the club and luckily I just held on for long enough.”