Do you want the official version or the unofficial version?
The official version is he realised that he wasn't up to Premiership standard and has retired from the premiership to go and play in the Qatar League of has-beens.
The unofficial version is that he was asked to leave when we realised that we shouldn't have extended the contract in the first place. He was told that it would be referred to as retirement and in exchange for terminating his contract he would receive a single, lump sum to pay off his contract. He probably had to sign a compromise agreement too. The whole thing was done amicably and he's off to make a few bob in the Middle East.
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