After being in the treatment room for the early part of Johnson's arrival Kompany admits he had not had a close up view of the young winger but he too was hugely impressed.
As a society, we treat single people over 30 with condescension or pity, but maybe the problem was that I had hurtled into a serious relationship too young.
A young Russian by the name of Vladimir began showing just a little too much interest in my 16-year-old daughter and I decided it was time for us to retreat to our compartment.
Though the director initially felt she was too young for the part of a girl who falls in love with a killer, her surprising maturity finally won him over.
Adams believes that he was too young - 21 - when given the Arsenal armband, but the former centre back feels that Cesc Fabregas will not make the same mistakes as him.
Even more incredible is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.