“It was weird, really strange and it was a really big culture shock with the language and everything but we were young,” Dier says. “In the beginning I was seen as an outsider at Sporting and I didn’t speak the language very well which made it really hard. But once I had learnt the language and they realised I wasn’t going anywhere I didn’t have problems. By the time I was 13 I was settled and I was just like one of them.