ONE ARSENAL invincible looks a changed man as he sported a skinhead at the Emirates.
The former attacker signed for the Gunners at the age of 16 in 1999.
He spent seven years at the club making 51 appearances, ten of which came in the 2003-04 unbeaten season.
The 39-year-old left North London in 2006 but he has not forgotten his allegiance to the Gunners.
And he proved that by posing in an Arsenal jacket in the tunnel at the Emirates Stadium.
But he looked rather different than the youngster who turned out for Arsene Wenger’s side in the early noughties.
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That’s mainly because he now has a shaved head and a beard – with the baby face he had while at Arsenal now a distant memory.
Jeremie Aliadiere is the player in quesiton and he was at the Emirates filming a video for talkSPORT where he and Josh Denzel watched some exclusive clips from Amazon Prime’s All or Nothing documentary on Arsenal’s 2021-22 campaign.
The ex-striker is also somewhat of a jet setter after retiring from football in 2018.
He recently visited Dubai with his wife and two children, Ava, 14, and Leo, 10, who plays for the Arsenal academy.
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But the former Middlesbrough star has not found life easy since hanging up his boots however, and opened up about suffering from depression in 2019.
He said: “You start feeling depressed. ‘What am I doing?
“I used to get up every morning to train, enjoy it every day, enjoy the environment, the dressing room, the jokes.
“Suddenly there’s nothing. My kids and my wife, their lives still go on. Your whole life ends, basically.
“If I didn’t have my kids and wife I’d probably be in the worst, worst place.
“You hear of a lot of footballers who lose the plot when they retire, who blow their money on gambling, drink, drugs. You need to find something to give you the same importance, the same adrenaline as when you were playing.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
