"I don't feel comfortable here [Liverpool] any more," Sky Sports News reported him as saying.
"My reason for leaving is not the money. If it were the money, I would have left already. It's my family and my image. It's a difficult moment for me. The coach and my colleagues know that they [the press] didn't treat me well here [in Britain].
"I am persecuted by the paparazzi all the time. I could not even go into the garden or the supermarket.
"I know it is normal, being followed by the press, but it's too much - all the silly things they said, all the pictures, all the taunts. That happened every day and nobody supported me."