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There are reportedly increasing fears that the Premier League could lose some of its star players due to non-footballing reasons.
According to the Irish Sunday Mirror, WAGS of foreign footballers are increasingly finding life in England difficult and could encourage their partners to play elsewhere abroad.
To help them acclimatise, Premier League clubs are hiring 'care teams' to help unhappy wives and girlfriends adapt to living in the UK.
Speaking on this subject, player care expert Hugo Scheckter told the Irish Sunday Mirror: '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.'
There have been some high-profile examples of WAGs showing their displeasure for life in England.
There are reported worries that Premier League players could leave amid unhappy WAGs (pictured Igor Jesus, left, and Virgil van Dijk in action on Saturday in the English top-flight)
The most damning in recent years being the wife of ex-Manchester United winger Angel di Maria, Jorgelina Cardoso.
Di Maria moved to Old Trafford from Real Madrid for £59.7million in August 2014 - at that time one of the most expensive transfers of all time - but was sold 11 months later at a £15m loss after a hugely disappointing season.
And reflecting about their life in England in August 2022, Cardoso labelled English food 'disgusting' and claimed she wanted to 'kill herself' because 'it's nighttime at 2pm' in an interview with Argentinean TV channel LAM.
She said: '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."'
In October 2022, then-Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan's wife Sara Arfaoui echoed Cardoso's sentiments when she criticised the food in the city.
Angel Di Maria's wife Jorgelina Cardoso has opened up on their Manchester nightmare - and admitted the Argentine (above) only joined United for the money in a brutally honest interview
Cardoso (left) labelled British food as 'disgusting' and said British women 'look like porcelain'
Cardoso was speaking on Argentinean TV channel LAM when she made her criticisms
The model, who was born in France but moved to Italy as a child, added that she could not find 'a real Italian or good sushi or just fresh food… everything frozen'.
She posted on her Instagram story: '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, almost 18 months later she had done a U-turn, telling Daily Mail Sport exclusively how she missed living in Manchester after Gundogan's move to Barcelona in the summer of 2023.
'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.'
Ilkay Gundogan's wife Sara Arfaoui complained about Manchester when he was at Man City
Arfaoui said in an 2022 Instagram post that she is fed up of 'horrible food' in Manchester
The model said she could not find 'a real Italian or good sushi or just fresh food'
Discussing the difficulty of swapping England for Spain, she added: 'Over the years I would see friends moving.
'So it's something that's always around in football and you would suddenly just have a phone call from them telling you they're going to another country.
'So, it's always around, it's always happening, but I didn't imagine that it would be us and when it's you it's big a shock.
'It's always sad, especially because you make friends, you're happy somewhere, you build your life and then you have to leave all the people you love.'
