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8th July 2015
04:09pm BST

Since that season, he has led an, what shall we say, interesting life. He went to AL Ain on loan in 2011 and then moved there permanently in 2012.
He's been a success for the Abu Dhabi club where he signed a deal worth an initial $6m but has seen that boosted in recent season and now earns $250,000 a week.
A week.
And sure he was only delighted to bang in the goals for that kind of cash.
And now he looks absolutely positively chuffed to know that he is going to earn an incredible €13m a year after agreeing to join Chinese side Shanghai SIPG. The club is managed by another man who isn't shy of a few euro in his back pocket, Sven-Goran Eriksson.
And on arriving at the airport today before signing the contract he looked like the happiest man in the world
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