He left for a bigger club, that's fine but it depends how you do it. If he had a shot on him he would be a great player rather than a good one.
He was always going to earn big money by moving, and Iam very surprised he is at that wage level, it is something that turns me off modern football, ask these people to pass the ball 100 times 10 yards and they'd miss a lot of the time, as for missing the first defender with a cross