is having a blast during a sunny holiday with his new girlfriend Clara Chia Marti as the pair were seen making a splash in a luxury yacht.
The football star, 36, made his relationship public with the public relations student, 24, in January following his .
The pair could be seen paddleboarding off the Croatian coast near beach Sunj on Lopud Island.
Photos showed the couple splashing around in the water together, with Gerard in blue and white swimming shorts and Clara in a tiny olive-green bikini.
After their dip, the pair dried off and caught some rays on their luxury yacht while taking in the views.
were after they were spotted together at the Summerfest Cerdanya music festival, just three months after Gerard’s split with the Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker was announced.
Shakira seemingly threw shade at the couple in her new music, with her single appearing to reference his new relationship.
In the lyrics, she said: ‘Sorry baby, I should have thrown you out a while ago / A she-wolf like me is not for rookies / A she-wolf like me is not for guys like you / I’m too good for you, and that’s why you’re with someone just like you.’
Gerard and Clara the song was released, and a month later Shakira released TQG which discusses watching a former partner move on.
She sings: ‘Seeing you with the new one hurt me / But I’m already set by myself.’
went on to speak about where she was when she found out ‘through the press’ about while at her 91-year-old father’s bedside.
‘While he was at Milan’s first communion, he was gravely injured in an accident. Everything happened at once. My home was falling apart,’ she explained to
‘I was finding out through the press that I had been betrayed while my dad was in the ICU.’
The and subsequent hospitalisation of her father left Shakira feeling like she was not ‘going to survive’, especially as she is so close to her family.
‘The man I have loved the most in my life, my father, was leaving me when I needed him the most,’ she added. ‘I couldn’t talk to him, or go to my best friend for the advice I needed so much.’
