That's easy to say when you haven't experienced the situation and don't know how one's life can change when they go from poor to making good money.
A lot of footballers come from modest households, take care of their entire families once they make it, so that's one thing, buy your parents, siblings,etc .. an appartment, a car, medical stuff and you're down a couple millions already.
Plus, your lifestyle drastically changes when you're making that kind of money, you buy a house, a 2nd one for holidays, you start liking confort, go only to 5* hotels, Michelin restaurants (everyone loves good food ^^), may be even flying private (imagine xavi or messi in line at El Prat airport like regular civilians, that kind of harrasment can be difficult to handle), etc etc .. again, before you know it, you're down a few millions more over the years so you need to keep feeding your bank account to sustain that.
He's only 35, and has a unique opportunity to cash in one last time before retiring for good, and he has every right to take that chance, if I had to choose between retiring with 50M€ or retiring with 100M€, i'll choose a 100M€ too.
Apparently in an interview he talked about how he idolized Schuster and Pep, and then he said that he learned Pep's way of playing, his movements, vision etc. and internalized the approach to such an extent that even when he is in a restaurant, he prefers to sit with his back against the wall or a corner so that he has full vision of the space.
