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EXCLUSIVE: Southampton starlet Valentino Livramento went from being a Chelsea academy player to a Premier League regular in six months...and admits it still feels surreal to be swapping shirts with Paul Pogba

As he looked back at one of the defining moments in his football journey so far, Tino Livramento can smile about it now.

‘Going into Chelsea when I was around seven for the trial, there were loads of boys there,’ he began.

‘I didn’t actually want to go. I was kind of nervous and didn’t really think that I was good enough to be there.

Valentino Livramento has been a revelation for Southampton in the Premier League this year

My mum [Caroline] and dad [Louis] were in the car and couldn’t find the training ground and I was thinking “thank God I’m not actually going to do it”.