Gary Lineker
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Might even be this one.
I was probably one of the top paid players in the world when I was at Barcelona and Tottenham.
And I would have been on about four days of his salary.
So I was on about 325 grand a year, which was big at the time.
I started at Leicester as an apprentice at 16 and I was paid 16 pounds a week and they gave me a separate envelope with a fiver in that was for my mum because all the kids that got digs that were from other places, not because I was a local lad.
So they thought it's only fair that your mum gets paid a little bit and my mum would never take it.
So I was actually on 21 quid a week.
Not the first team.
I was in the youth team.
If you're as good as Luminium are, you are.
But I wasn't.
I was a slow developer.
I didn't reach puberty until I was 17, which was a bit embarrassing.
Are you still waiting for it?
£100 a week I was on.
Yeah, £100 a week.
I didn't really think... You were probably 17 by then or 18?
18.
I got a professional contract, 18th birthday.
And then it went up to...