Igor Julio exclusive: Brighton centre-back on adapting to playing under De Zerbi
Britain is in the midst of Storm Ciaran's three-day battering, but you will not see any signs of sandbags or flood barriers at Brighton & Hove Albion.
It is Wednesday afternoon at the American Express Elite Performance Centre in Lancing, but for the club's newest recruit Igor Julio, it is business as usual.
Come rain or shine, the smiling Brazilian centre-back with pearly white teeth and body covered from head to toe in tattoos is embracing his latest assault on the senses.
"The weather here is so cold," Igor tells Sky Sports as he strolls through the double doors of the media room for our long-awaited appointment. "It's something I'll have to get used to!"
It is far removed from the tolling of a distant bell tower in Bom Sucesso [which translates in Portuguese as Good Success] - in his homeland in Brazil - a small town of some 17,000 inhabitants, 250 miles north of Rio De Janeiro in Minas Gerais.
From the chirps of canaries to the sound of seagulls, my interviewee's manager Roberto De Zerbi was not about to be stubborn in the eye of an unwanted guest rolling in off the south coast.
A giant screen in the adjacent reception details the day's programme.
Treatment: 8am, Breakfast: 8.30am, Team Meeting: 10am, Activation: 10.30am, Training: 11.10am, Recovery, Lunch and finally Strength and Conditioning.
All wrapped up by 3pm. The inclement weather conditions push everything back by 45 minutes - but Igor is no stranger to adapting to new surroundings.
"I was on my own for the first month or so after I arrived, but I'm settling in well now," he says as he reclines back in his chair. "Joao Pedro has been helping me and I'm having four English lessons a week so I'm communicating better all the time.
"My parents moved over here from
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