Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou always had a lot of time for Pedro Porro.
The right wing-back has shown his true self this season as a Spurs player, after struggling last winter.
Porro arrived in the January transfer window, but had a tough time during the second half of last term.
Asked about Porro improving, Postecoglou told reporters: He's a good footballer. Most coaches will tell you that they want good footballers.
I didn't see anything there [that was an issue], a lot of people have always said that, especially with the way I get my full-backs to play, that I haven't been at a club yet where the full-backs haven't adapted, whether that was at Celtic, or at Yokohama since I've been going down this road.
Very few have struggled with it. I think it's just probably the uniqueness of what they do that takes people aback a little bit, but in terms of the functionality of it, we try to make it as simple for the guys in that position.
Then the quality we have both with Pedro and Destiny, they take it to another level altogether, because it's one thing for me to tell them to move into the areas we want them to move into but then they need to show that quality and they've got it in abundance.
I was never concerned about Pedro. I thought that with him and Emerson we were well covered on the right-hand side."