“If you think he looks frail now, you should have seen him when he arrived,” Fortune says. “Obviously he is still not yet physically fully developed, but back then he was really slight. He had to do a lot of weights, a lot of work on being able to impose himself. But the talent was always there. However small he was, he could always get away from people. He knew that when he went for the ball he could escape, so he showed no fear.”