Premier League flop who quit football at 28 to sell vacuum cleaners looks unrecognisable with bushy beard

A PREMIER LEAGUE flop looks unrecognisable after quitting football aged just 28 to sell vacuum cleaners.

The 53-year-old has grown a bushy beard and looks considerably different to how he did back in his playing days.

Leeds signed him for a then club-record fee of £4.5million in 1995.

It seemed like a smart move after he was a star of the World Cup the year before, scoring three goals and assisting the same amount as his nation finished third.

The Swede joined Leeds from Italian side Parma, where he had won the UEFA Cup and Coppa Italia.

He never reached his potential at Elland Road, scoring four goals in 20 games.

The attacker struggled for form, suffered a foot injury and fell out with manager Howard Wilkinson.

He was dropped and once put in a supposedly deliberately bad performance in protest at being played out of position on the wing.

And an April Fool's joke where he tricked Wilkinson into thinking he was leaving the club mid-season backfired when the media heard and thought it was true.

He left Leeds for Crystal Palace after disagreements with boss George Graham due to him not turning up for training.

The man in question is of course Tomas Brolin.

Brolin retired at 28 and went on to sell vacuums cleaners.

He purchased 50 per cent of the business that sells "The Twinner" vacuum and it has become one of the most popular in Swedish market.

The company is supposedly worth millions.