Manchester City insiders insist moving to Eastlands was the perfect tonic for Carlos Tevez after his difficult final months at Manchester United. Tevez is flying at City this season, particularly under new manager Roberto Mancini.
The Daily Mail says a source reveals that when Tevez arrived at Eastlands he was a player who had lost his way a little.
It would appear, though, that the answer was very simple.
"Carlos is a good lad with a huge heart and enormous strength of character," said the source. "But it's hard to get him to train at a match tempo. So if he isn't playing regularly in real games, then he loses his sharpness. I think that's what happened at United and that's what we have had to try to address.
"At the start of the season he had problems with his back and his ankle but we needed him so we pushed him into games and he did a job for the club. But all those matches have really paid off in the last couple of months as he has just got sharper and sharper.
"He will still do his own thing. He will still have a bottle of Coke or a Mars Bar occasionally! But it's fine because of all the work he is getting through in matches.
"When we spoke to him about coming he just wanted to know if he would play regular games and if he would be at the heart of what we were doing. In some ways, he just wanted to be loved again. I think he had forgotten the type of player he once was and felt he needed a way to get that back."