Kevin-Prince Boateng believes that his extravagant lifestyle in the British capital has had a negative effect on his entire life.
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The north London side signed the promising youngster in 2007 for £5.4m and Boateng saw it as his "big move" with more money in his life than he could have ever imagined after growing up in a brutally poor neighbourhood in Berlin.
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“I was spending serious amounts: nightclubs, clothes, cars.” Three in one day, the story goes. “True,” he says. “Because you try to buy happiness. I couldn’t play football so I buy a Lamborghini. Wow, you’re happy for a week. After that you don’t even use it.
"Who drives around Loughton in a Lamborghini? I still have a picture: three cars, big house, I’m standing there like I’m 50 Cent. I look at it sometimes and say: ‘Look how stupid you were.’ But that made me who I am and I can look back and see it. I’ve learned. I grew up.”