Royston Drenthe has revealed how he clashed with Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho ahead of moving to Everton.
Everton's new signing says the out-spoken Portuguese made it clear he had no future at the Bernabeu as a result.
He said: "He told me face to face that the reason he wasn't giving me a chance was because I didn't respect Real Madrid or my family or myself.
"But I asked him 'What's the reason?' 'You don't know what the situation was like?' He was in a good situation, but I felt I had to do that for myself, and my family or it would just get worse.
"He said that because I was a Real Madrid player I should have decided differently.
"He said I had been in his plans for the team, and told me if I hadn't done that at Hercules he would have got me into the team.
"I didn't go to training because they weren't paying me.
"Two months before it all happened I scored twice (for Hercules) and went to the game for Real Madrid against Tottenham, and I was speaking with Mourinho in the dressing room and he told me "If you carry on like that you will get back into the team for us." It was all happy.
"Then after a month they didn't pay me again. A new trainer was coming called Miroslav Djukic and he was very direct with me. With all respect I told him, 'You can't just come in and talk to me like that. It's not good. I don't like your style but if you don't like mine, talk to me, maybe I'll change it.'
"If I did something wrong he'd be directly on me."
