As Rémy Cabella finished posing for photographs in the St. James' Park tunnel, Newcastle United's latest recruit studied his new surroundings.
"Qu'est ce que ca veut dire 'howay the lads'?" he asked, looking above his head to where a black and white scarf had just been held aloft.
The attacking midfielder may have been on Tyneside for a matter of hours, but already he was intent on integrating with the Geordie ways.
A brief explanation later and Cabella was in the local groove, even signing his first couple of shirts with the Magpies' famous phrase.
Fair play