I agree that the European or South American greats who go off to play out their sunset years in the US, China or other far-from-home places seldom seem to thrive. They seem to do it for the money on offer, though they're already multimillionaires. It's easy to forget that they're young men who've lived in a bubble of footballing elites for most of their adult lives... Yeah, I don't think I get it...

Even with their millions, it could be that they see a future ahead of them with nothing much in it apart from big houses, divorces and things, and are thinking of how they can't put off the evil hour...

When I was a lad and even the best footballers didn't get paid much more than shop managers, as soon as their careers ended they went back to being builders or plumbers or they opened a sports shop...