Everton signing Aiden McGeady admits he grew tired of life in Russia last year.
McGeady left Spartak Moscow last week for Everton.
"I could probably write a book on it the amount of things there were," he said. "(Most difficult was) probably trying to adapt to life over there.
"It is not like moving here, where everything is easier to do. Things are that little bit... probably not backwards, but a lot of it is like 20 years ago.
"The first couple of years were great but after that the novelty wore off a little bit and it was a difficult place to live with a family, it's not the easiest place to bring up children.
"It is a totally different way of life and the way they approach football over there is like night and day compared to here. It was probably just too big a change."
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