Faustino Asprilla had spent a large amount of his salary when at Newcastle in amusement arcades and at the Metro Centre’s Disney Store. William Gallas, more conventionally, paid £350,000 for a McLaren Mercedes. Manchester United’s Nani has invested a proportion of his wages in a life-size marble statue of himself while Downing’s Villa team-mate Stephen Ireland has a passion for aquariums, candy-coloured soft furnishings and car accessories.