The biggest difference, he agrees, is the structure of the day. “Certain things are a lot different,” he says. “The times that people eat here is a lot different, they eat very late at night. I am comfortable with that but I don’t need to be eating at 11. I’ve been here for a while now and I’ve started to settle and get used to it.” Much of his spare time is spent keeping up with the Premier League and, he says, he has been watching a lot of basketball on TV, and has plans to watch Real Madrid’s basketball team with Luka Modric, his team-mate at Tottenham who he has been reunited with at Real.