I heard this today from a reliable source, but haven't been able to find anything concrete so far. Can anyone confirm it?
If it's true, I think it's incredibly sad that a player of his quality is in such a terrible situation and the likes of *insert random mediocre multi-millionaire modern player's name* will be minted for life. If only he'd been as little as ten years younger he'd never be in this boat, regardless of how much money he frittered away.