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Leon Bailey survived on tuna and bread in his youth and saw his adopted father ATTACKED... and after rejecting advances from the Premier League's biggest clubs, the £30m Jamaican rocks up at Aston Villa on his latest globetrotting adventure

Leon Bailey has experienced plenty that would halt most careers in their tracks, but nothing has been able to prevent the Kingston-born star from making his name in European football.

The 23-year-old was just a teenager when adoptive dad - and now agent - Craig Butler took him and his two brothers from Jamaica on a journey which has taken him to Austria, Belgium, Slovakia and Germany prior to his £30million move to Aston Villa.

Bailey had lived with Butler since ever since he was about five years old as one of approximately 20 children the latter came to adopt.