Jackson Irvine

And, you know, I wanted to, it was my first step in,

You know, I was still at a very small club in the championship and I had big dreams of, you know, going on to have hopefully a big career in Europe.

And he said to me, right, so the head of the agency is going to come to see you.

And I was like, ooh, like what?

Like these guys do deals with bloody Kyle Walker and, you know, the biggest players in the Premier League and why are you coming to Burton to see me?

And my dad was over at the time because it was around Christmas time in January.

And, yeah, it was like a scene out of a film.

Like he wrote a number on a piece of paper and went across the table like me, 22, 23 years old.

And you pick it up and it's like, what?

Like that's not –

like it's just numbers on a thing.

It doesn't make sense to me.

Like, I'm like, I don't even understand what that means.

And listen, it's, it's funny to reflect on now.

I did a lot of, I had some big conversations with my family about it.

And yeah, again, I've never criticized anybody who takes the big money moves to Saudi to China from a, from a personal perspective, people make their own decisions and that's often reflective of the kind of life that you've had.

And I'm very fortunate that I grew up comfortable, you know,

you know, middle class, Eastern Melbourne kid, you know, this, my family are fine and everybody, you know, there's this kind of thing was, of course it takes your life and your generations, it's generational money, but it didn't interest me.

I had dreams of, as I said, my football and dreams were all I've ever wanted and all I've ever focused on.

And yeah, the day I turned it down was,