RYAN SESSEGNON

For someone to have faith in you at the tender age of 16 is massive.

I think I am improving with each game, and I just want to keep learning.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

Whenever success does come, I enjoy it for a moment but then put it to the side and focus on the main objective.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

I never expected to win Young Player or Player of the Season because there is some fantastic competition - Ruben Neves at Wolves, James Maddison at Norwich, and Tom Cairney here at Fulham. To win those two awards is a special feeling.

I grew up in Roehampton in the south-west - it's decent!

Fulham trust young players.

When you are young, you just want to play as many games as you can.

You see the fans come week-in week-out and show support, so whatever the result, you always have to show love and respect to the fans.

When I was younger, I had two players: Luke Shaw and Gareth Bale. When Shaw was at Southampton, he was a left-back, and I loved watching him bomb up and down the wing, create goals, score goals, so I think I try to emulate that. Gareth Bale - same thing, really.

To go away and win a tournament for your country and come back and know that everyone has heard of it and is talking about it gives you confidence going back to your club.

I am not sure where the future will take me, but I have always wanted to play regular Premier League football.

For the fans, for the club, for the young players, I want to show there is a pathway at Fulham for young players to go through in the first team.

It was my idea to get in the gym. Fulham have pushed me as well to be in there two or three times a week, not just weights but flexibility as well to help my all-round body.

Coming through the youth ranks at Fulham is a great honour to me.

I am becoming a man; I am maturing day by day. The influence of being around men helps me and makes me be more professional.

It would mean everything to go up with Fulham. It is the team that has made me a professional, and it's the team that has given me a chance.

When we were growing up, we supported Liverpool.

It's been a massive confidence booster to know the managers picking you each game in a position where you're playing well. It gives you a lot of belief that you're doing the right things.

I'm enjoying my position on the left wing because I think I'm affecting the game more in terms of goals and assists. But I'm happy to play wherever I'm told.

I'm liking my role as left-wing is my preferred position.

I think it's good to surround yourself with good people.

It's great to be compared to someone of the stature of Gareth Bale, but I'm happy to be Ryan Sessegnon.

It has been a dream to play in the Premier League with Fulham.