The Ivory Coast international looks to have a new lease on life since the Special One turned up in North London
Two things seemed very obvious upon the appointment of Jose Mourinho by Tottenham Hotspur, but only in hindsight in the case of the latter.
The first was that there would be some kind of new manager bounce. That wasn't hard to predict: Spurs had been underperforming to such a frankly unfathomable degree since the turn of the year that there really was nowhere to go but up. As it happens, the formerly Special One has engineered two rather chaotic wins from two, a very good start all things considered.