Premier League WAGs 'finding life in England tough' and 'encouraging stars to play abroad'

Premier League WAGs are reportedly encouraging their partners to play abroad as they find it tough living in England.

Partners of foreign footballers are increasingly finding life in England difficult and harder to adapt to, and are reportedly actively encouraging their other halves not to sign for British clubs.

In an attempt to help struggling WAGs, Premier League clubs are hiring 'care teams' to help unhappy partners adapt to living in the UK.

Player care expert Hugo Scheckter told ESPN: "It can be hard moving to a new country.

"We're definitely seeing that as a bigger issue, where player are happy, partners are not, and then that's leading to a player either wanting to leave or talking about potentially having to leave, which is a disaster for clubs."

Over the years, there have been numerous accounts of wives and girlfriends making their unhappiness living in the UK clear, while many are likely to have fumed in secret about moving from places like sunny Spain or beautiful Italy to England (we're not blaming them).

One famous case saw Manchester United flop Angel di Maria's wife Jorgelina Cardoso call English food 'disgusting' and claim she wanted to 'kill herself' because 'it's nighttime at 2pm' in an interview with Argentinean TV channel LAM.

Di Maria joined United from Real Madrid in August 2014 in a £59.7million deal, but he was shipped off again just 12 months later to PSG with his tail between his legs and United fans happy to see the back of him at a £15m loss, having failed to replicate anything like his brilliance at the Santiago Bernabeu.

She fumed: "Angel came to me one day and said: 'Look at this proposal from Manchester United'. I didn't want to go, I told him to go alone. 'Let's go both of us', he replied. It was a lot of money, more than the Spaniards had offered. So, we went. If you work in a company and someone offers you double the salary, you go running.

"We were friends with Gianinna Maradona, (former Manchester City striker) Sergio Aguero's wife, and we travelled to Manchester on vacation for a year. It was always horrible! We came home and I said: 'If you're ever transferred, make sure it's anywhere in the world but England.'

"I didn't like it at all... I can tell you. People are all weird. You walk around and you don't know if they're going to kill you. The food is disgusting. The women look like porcelain.

"Angel and I were in Madrid, at the best team in the world, perfect food, perfect weather, everything was perfect. And then came United's proposal....

"I told him 'no way, no way', but he kept saying we will be a little more financially secure and we have to go. We fought about it... We try to be closer when things go wrong.

"I don't blame him for going there. It was horrible, so horrible. I just told him, 'Darling, I want to kill myself, it's nighttime at two o'clock.'"

Former Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan's wife Sara Arfaoui also slammed the food in the city.

The model didn't hold back when she was asked her favourite restaurant in the city, replying: "Sorry, I'm sad to be honest but nothing. I tried [sic] so bad to find a good restaurant but horrible food everywhere.

"Can't find a real Italian or good sushi or just fresh food… everything frozen. Restaurants here are focus [sic] on making money with drinks and shot [sic] like nightclubs, not quality food. Maybe in London but in Manchester nothing. I'm sorry."

However, Sara soon changed her tune on Manchester when Gundogan joined Barcelona, saying how she missed living in the city.

"When I was in Manchester, my whole life was (originally) around football," she said. "My friends were football, the people I met through my husband, and then I didn't have anything that was just my world outside of that.

"And I'm a social person. So it took me a bit of time, but I made it friends and it was really nice.

"After making friends, I was really happy. I had my own life and routine in Manchester and I have one of my best friends there."