Tottenham flop makes bizarre career change to become an OIL TYCOON at 35 – three years after retiring – and rakes in £400,000-per-year

A former Spurs player who was once likened to Lionel Messi has ventured into the oil business after hanging up his boots.

Despite earning more than 100 international caps throughout his career, the highly-touted winger struggled to make an impact in north London during a four-year stint.

He would go on to turn out for several different sides after leaving White Hart Lane, before hanging up his boots aged just 32.

However, despite never reaching the lofty heights predicted of him during his playing career, the 35-year-old has managed to find lucrative success away from the sport.

According to reports from Mexican outlet Claro Sports, Giovani Dos Santos is now making a comfortable living in the petrochemical industry, with his earnings reportedly around £400,000 or 10 million Mexican pesos per year.

Dos Santos is said to have become in a partner in the company Procura Mexico, part of the country’s state-owned oil giant Pemex.

Giovani Dos Santos reportedly makes £400,000-per-year as a partner in the company Procura Mexico

The 35-year-old made over 100 international appearances for Mexico, scoring 19 goals

The three-time Gold Cup winner is also said to have a business selling luxury cars in his home country.

Dos Santos initially burst onto the scene as a graduate of Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, making his first-team debut aged just 18 and coming on as a substitute for Thierry Henry.

In his only full season with the club’s first team Dos Santos quickly became a regular feature under then Barca boss Frank Rijkaard alongside fellow academy stars Bojan and a certain Lionel Messi.

A hat-trick in the Blaugrana’s final league game of the 2007-08 campaign served as yet more proof of the teenager’s potential, but with competition for places fierce he joined Tottenham that summer.

The move would ultimately prove unsuccessful however, and he would be shipped out on loan three times before leaving the club permanently in 2012 without having scored a single Premier League goal.

Spells in La Liga with Mallorca and Villarreal served as yet more proof of the winger’s ability under the right circumstances, and he then spent four years in the MLS with LA Galaxy.

A final two-year stint in Liga MX with America followed but injuries limited his involvement and he left the club in 2021.