If the figures online are anywhere near accurate, he's only on £2.5k pw atm, so well in range of a L1 club.
Well if you are being pedantic, that's what he was on according to the tinterweb prior to release so it's not as though he was demanding the earth in terms of football players wages. But hey if he has saved well in his career, he could realistically be on more than £2.5k per week from his savings alone.
2 sites I've seen put him on 40 Grand when with Middlesbrough and last 2 clubs in Turkey on between 6 and 7 grand .
The wages of players online are just made up. All of them, doesn't matter which website you use, they're entirely fabricated. Feel free to bookmark this post so you can copy and paste the text whenever someone quotes the wages of a player from a website.