Uche Ikpeazu's impact at Cardiff City is a lesson to footballers everywhere on just how to endear yourself to supporters at a new club.
With that big, beaming smile, crucial late goals and perfecting the art of the enthusiastic ayatollah, it is fair to say he is grabbing the hearts of the Bluebirds faithful more with each passing game.
And, for clarity, the striker is not posturing, either. It is his genuinely passionate and ebullient personality which is shining through in spades.
He has wholeheartedly bought into the club since the day he arrived at the end of January. Middlesbrough and Wycombe Wanderers fans flooded social media at that time to tell Cardiff supporters they would grow to love him and it is not difficult to see just why.
Indeed, team-mate Ryan Wintle lifted the lid on Ikpeazu's penchant for the doing the ayatollah and no doubt fans will love it.
"I've never seen someone do it so much, honestly!" Wintle said of Ikpeazu's ayatollah. "He does it in training and everything!
"He's a great lad, everyone loves him here and we are glad to have him on our side and not against us."
He is no dead weight or luxury player, either, he is an utter menace, just ask Tommy Doyle, who trains with him day in, day out at the club's Vale of Glamorgan HQ.
“When you bring Uche on, I think he’s the last player defenders want to see when they’re tired," said Doyle after his own man-of-the-match display against Derby County on Tuesday night.
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The 27-year-old has scored three goals in six games for the Bluebirds. He is yet to start but it makes such a difference having a weapon like Ikpeazu to bring off the bench.
He is riding the crest of a wave in his Bluebirds career, that's for sure, and the fans are loving having him.
It's safe to say the feeling is mutual.
“He [Steve Morison] just said to go out there and do my best,” Ikpeazu said after his match-winning display. “That’s what I do, I always try my best. I love playing here, I love it at the club.
"Scoring a goal is always amazing, but it was a great team performance, we had to dig deep and I’m glad I got the winner, but the boys behind me stayed in the game when it was difficult.
“This season, I’ve only started nine games, so to score my sixth goal of the season just goes to show that whether I’m starting or coming on off the bench, I’m always ready because I work hard and I do my best. It’s not about me, it’s about the team, so the most important thing is the three points.”
His debut goal against Barnsley, when he practically carried two players on his back before bundling the ball into the net, earned Cardiff a crucial three points last month and it was his telling intervention late on against the Rams which once again helped to distance the Bluebirds from the bottom three.
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Supporters are not blind to see that Ikpeazu has aspects of his game he must work on before he is the finished article. He has that raw strength, is good in the air and, so far in a Cardiff shirt, has a knack of finding the back of the net.
Steve Morison praised the forward for his goals against both Barnsley and Derby, but also concedes there are areas of his game which, if he improves, can make him even more dangerous.
"They have both been winners in 1-0 games," Morison said of his striker's crucial goals. "He scored [against Derby] and he came over and I just said to him, 'I don't care if you've scored, you've got to hold the ball up!'
"He was like, 'OK, OK, OK!' I said, 'You can't be that big and that strong and not hold the ball up!'
"You forget how young he is. He was only 27 the other day so he has got his best years ahead of him. He came on to affect the game and scored the goal.
"With strikers, it's irrelevant what the rest of his game was. It was a good goal. He is a super strong guy. He was just stronger than him [Curtis Davies] and it was a great moment for us.
"It puts them 18 points behind us, which is huge, and we've gone up a couple of points in the table, which always looks better."
Both Ikpeazu and Jordan Hugill have made marked improvements to the club's striker department since they walked through the door.
While Hugill is obviously the more technically astute footballer, the pair offer Cardiff a real presence at the top of the pitch and bring slightly different challenges to opposition defenders.
However, Morison believes it is a case of having either of them on the pitch, rather than starting them both together.
"I think you need to have legs," Morison said of the combination of strikers. "We would really struggle to get up the pitch if we had two people just trying to hold the ball up.
"You need runners off and we've got the three in midfield as well.
"Unless I'm forced into it through injuries it will be either one or the other."
Regardless, having had such a reliance on Kieffer Moore and his physicality for 18 months or so, it is a real luxury to have the option of using both interchangeably.
He has made a real impact and calls are growing from fans for Cardiff to sound out Middlesbrough over a potential permanent deal in the summer.
The snag there, though, is that he has two years left to run on his contract at the Riverside and any purchase would involve a decent transfer fee. Quite what funds are going to be available this summer is something of a mystery at the minute.
So, while the prospect of signing him permanently looks remote, Cardiff fans should enjoy him while he is here and they will doubtless need little encouragement to do that.
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