Jose Mourinho has explained how he has turned Marouane Fellaini from Manchester United flop to Old Trafford hero.
Belgian midfielder Fellaini notched a brace as United thrashed Crystal Palace 4-0 - taking his season scoring to four goals.
The former Everton giant has now equalled his tally from each of the previous two season - having only managed 17 goals in four years at United.
Fellaini had been a ridiculed character after David Moyes had brought him to the club from the Toffees for £27.5m.
But his recent form has started to win over Red Devils fans with a series of important apperances.
And Portuguese boss Mourinho believes the turn of fortunes is not down to anything he had specifically done differently but instead just an innate bond.
Mourinho said: "We are all managers, we are all different, sometimes we like players others don't like, sometimes we don't like players others like, some players perform better with some of us than with others.
"And I have examples of players that didn't perform well with me and then they performed well with other managers.
"Marouane is just the fact I think he has important qualities and I try to use these qualities depending of the situation, depending of the team's needs.
"He played with me as defensive midfield player, as second striker, he played with me like today in one of the double midfield players, adapted to the needs of the team.
"He's a team player, a great character, we have a good relation and things are going really between us.
"I think only a strong character would resist the difficulties here because he had some difficult times where people didn't recognise his qualities where probably other managers didn't like so much the qualities that he has, so you have to be a strong character.
"He's a fighter, a guy with lots of pride, I'm really pleased I helped him to reach this and to change the perception the fans have now, I'm really happy for him."
Source: The Mirror.
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