After the game against West Ham on April 14th, when Sam reported to the next Fulham training session in Craven Cottage, his teammates and his coach could tell that something changed immediately.
Sam's perception of space already underwent a drastic evolution.
With his intermediate mastery of space previously, Sam was already a master of spatial awareness, sensing and manipulating space on a football pitch but after inheriting the great Thomas Muller's inheritance, Sam evolved.
Sam became the next Space Interpreter of football.
In Germany, there was a saying about the Bayern legend. Despite already being on the wrong side of 30, the great German, Thomas Muller still plied his trade with Bayern Munich in the German top flight.
This was not because of his insane physicality, nor even his unreal talent.
Thomas Muller was always talented, but there were far more talented footballers when he first burst into the elite tier of football decades ago.