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The former England captain admits the multi-million-pound property deal risks overshadowing what he achieved in football.

Liam Gallagher enjoyed a strong 2025, and by the close of the year he treated himself to a major purchase — a 12,000 sq ft country home near Cirencester.

The property includes eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms, five reception rooms, a tennis court, a swimming pool and a separate two-bedroom cottage, handy if any siblings decide to visit, all spread across around 5.39 acres of picturesque Cotswold countryside.

The house also comes with a well-known former owner. Tony Adams bought it in 2002, reportedly for half of the price it fetched in the 2025 sale.

The image of Adams — capped 66 times by England, with 672 appearances for Arsenal, four top-flight league winners’ medals, three FA Cup Final victories and two League Cup Final wins — giving a tour of his seven bathrooms to a British rock star is an unusual one.

“Liam’s lovely,” Adams told FourFourTwo. “And Debbie’s great,” he added, speaking about the singer’s partner, Debbie Gwyther. “She’s an Arsenal fan. Stevenage girl. Her sister Katie as well. They’re great Arsenal fans.”

That connection proved a useful ice-breaker when Adams enthusiastically showed them some outdoor decoration he had installed near the front door of the home: a pair of cannons, modelled on those outside the Emirates Stadium.

But it led to a disagreement between the prospective buyers. “Liam went, ‘They’ve got to go,’” Adams said with a grin. “But Debbie said, ‘No, they’re staying here.’” There was, however, one issue. “I said, ‘They’re not staying,’” Adams continued. “They were coming with me!”

Adams said he decided to sell the property so that he and his wife could move back to London, where she is returning to university to study for a Master’s in early modern history.

Oasis’s summer 2025 reunion tour meant every move made by the Gallagher brothers was heavily covered in the media, and Liam’s switch to country living was no different. The small village where the house stands has a population of about 500, but Liam used his X account to reassure any neighbours who may have worried about a once wild rock star arriving in their peaceful area.

“To all the BEAUTIFUL people from the Cotswolds, I come in peace. You won’t even know I’m there. I’m not like all those divvy celebrities who like to show off. I’m LOFI,” he wrote.

This summer, he posted again to say his new neighbours were “absolutely incredible” and that “they have not stopped baking me cakes and scones.”

The high-profile deal also produced a funny moment for Adams at a recent event. “I was at a do recently,” he said, smiling. “We’d been talking for an hour and 10 minutes about Arsenal and addiction, and all this serious stuff. Then this 12-year-old lad comes up to me and says, ‘Oh… you sold your house to Liam Gallagher,’ and I thought, ‘Is that what I’m known for now?!’” He laughed at the thought that, for one young supporter, that house sale was his defining achievement.

Ironically, Adams’s greatest accomplishment is probably not his medals and England caps, nor even doubling his money in a property deal with the frontman of Britain’s biggest rock and roll band.

This year marks 30 years since he gave up alcohol. He wrote the best-selling book Addiction about overcoming his struggles, and in 2000 he used the proceeds to establish the charity Sporting Chance to help current and former athletes dealing with mental health and addiction problems.

More than 25 years on, the charity is still providing specialist treatment for sportsmen and sportswomen. What started with one footballer’s recovery has since developed into a support system for thousands of others.

Read our in-depth interview with Tony Adams in issue 396 of FourFourTwo magazine, on sale September 24th. Adams’ new book 1996: Reflections on the Year that Changed My Life is available now.