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When you introduced yourself yesterday, we already knew who you were?
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When you introduced yourself yesterday, we already knew who you are?
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Welcome, mmamoun.

The adverb yesterday is the clue. It refers to the past:

Yesterday when you introduced yourself, we already knew who you were.

We already knew who you were yesterday, when you introduced yourself.

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