Shanghai Shenhua flop Carlos Tevez has cheekily described his spell in the Chinese Super League as a "holiday".
The Argentina striker returned to boyhood club Boca Juniors this month. He had left the Buenos Aires club to join Shenhua in December 2016, on a contract worth a reported GBP32 million a year - or a pound a second.
His time in China can be measured by a string of negative headlines. Some lowlights include:
The 33-year-old managed just four goals in 16 games, and was dropped for the second leg FA Cup Final victory against arch city rivals Shanghai SIPG in November.
Unbowed, Tevez joked in an interview with Argentine TV: "It's fine because I was on vacation for seven months."
And it seems that was his attitude from the outset, adding: "When I landed in China, I wanted to return to Boca."
It is Tevez's third spell at Boca, having played for them from 2001 to 2004 and 2015 to 2016.
One person who (unsurprisingly) approves is Argentina thief-in-chief Maradona. The former Boca player describing his countryman's return to the club as "perfect":
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