I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes.

I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.

This is the better one. It's identical.

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

I've got a great life that I really enjoy. But there is something chewing at me inside: that adrenaline rush from football, I miss that.

It does not bother me that some say I'm dull and boring because the people that do know me will tell you a different story. It is very difficult to be open with people you don't know. There is nothing I can do about the fact that the real me does not get across and it is probably difficult to know the real me.