“I think for Julian, it’s just a maturing process. He’s getting a little bit older and he knows that there’s a lot at stake for him towards the future. He wants to break into that team and hewants to get minutes there, and he has people like [Frank] Ribery and [Arjen] Robben ahead of him. But the way he presented himself these 10 days — and it was actually from the firsttraining session on, where we said, ‘Oooh!’ He made a big step forward. I think he just becomes more of a personality.”

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