The Sun investigating premier league stars found that top players were making 9,000-mile trips to West Africa to visit Juju men. These witchdoctors perform bizarre rituals that are aimed at boosting the players’ skills or breaking the curses that may be limiting their careers.

The gravity of the situation was recently seen when Tottenham’s Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor, aged 31, had a family fued with his family because he believes that they used Juju on him.

Other footballers who seek tribesmen’s help are Chelsea player Jean-Jacques Tizie who pays for rituals to be performed so that bad spirits can be done away.

Many witchdoctors drive around in luxury cars after being payed enormous amounts for their services. Brown Ideye told the Sun that some players are trapped in the cycle of Juju… “They might get short-term benefits, but in the long run they pay for it,” he sys.

One player’s wife complained that some African players consider their Juju man more important than the club manager. “If the Juju man told my husband to stop playing football, he would never kick a ball again,” she said.

Here are the prices:

Troupkeka Milika ritual (takes 9 days to make the player a top scorer or best player in the team). Costs 460 pounds and requires the player to avoid sex for nine days and sleep under a loin cloth

Magic ring or headband (offers protection from black magic and helps dominate players during the competition) It costs 350 pounds and needs to be worn on the player’s foot or head