Russian International and Tottenham summer signing Roman Pavlyuchenko is starting to settle in to life in London, learning to drive on the opposite side of the road than he did in Moscow and taking up to 5 English classes per week in an effort to learn to language as quickly as possible.

Via DailyMail

“I study it five times a week with a teacher but all I can manage so far is to do some shopping. If people in the street could hear how badly I spoke, they would probably go mad with laughter.

‘That’s why I try not to leave home much. I have only dined out in a London restaurant once.

‘To learn driving in London was much easier. But initially driving on the right hand side scared me; I didn’t dare overtake and was constantly tempted to switch to the other side of the road. Now I can just about get to the training grounds.”

The 26 year old striker, who signed from Spartak Moscow in the summer, said ‘I’m a very happy man! Just think: they did not let Andrei Arshavin go, they do not let Pavel Pogrebnyak go, but I managed to leave.

‘At Tottenham they have created perfect conditions for me to play football and just about the only thing my family is missing in London is as good a kindergarten for our daughter as we had in Moscow.”

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