James Perch: "I didn't know of him and I don't think many of the other lads did.
"Everyone knows him now, he's a special player, a special talent.
"It's been such a fast start for him, he's landed and just taken off.
"It's hard to talk about him, because he just scores, and always has a smile on his face.
"He pulls something out of nothing, and it's not just in games, he does it in training as well, where sometimes you sit back and wonder, 'how did he do that?'".
But Perch seems to have transformed his own career in recent weeks, having spent 90% of his time on Tyneside struggling to win over the supporters.
But all credit to to the former Nottingham Forest defender, he has found a new lease of life in the last couple of months.