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and myself Jack Wilkinson and Micah Richards here in the tunnel at Old Trafford.

This week we're focusing on the lives of English footballers playing abroad.

And that's something that we didn't think we'd associate with your career

when you came through at Manchester City,

winning the FA Cup and going on to win the Premier League. Talk us through how that moved to Fiorentina came about and what it was like leaving the club. You've been out of my right in saying since the age of 14?

Yeah, I was there from 14 and everyone knew about my injuries and I couldn't really get back on the pitch.

So it sort of came out of the blue really

um some of me worked at liverpool then went to fjurrentina put a call into my agent and asked like would you be interested in going and at first i was like not really because you know all i know is english football i didn't really want City, but Zabaletta was playing really well at the time.

I knew I was going to be second choice,

so I went to go meet my agent,

sat down with them, and yeah, we agreed it,

but it was on deadline day,

so it was all a bit of a rush,

but no, I'm glad I did it.

It made me a better, better person and a better player for sure.

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