John Barnes
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Yeah.
So I got caught with a lot of...
Coffee in Brazil.
A lot of investments all over the world.
And by the time... Was you advising yourself?
No, I didn't.
My agent was just an agent who did football.
These are all the people coming in to say, well, what about this scheme?
And then, of course, villas in Florida.
Similar to that, but not mine.
I didn't then look to go down the route to do what they did.
But I lost a lot of money.
And by the time...
I stopped playing football, and this big tax bill came in.
I was then playing catch-up for many, many years.
So I would have, from 2017 up until last year, finally paid off about £2 million.
But then the taxman wanted last year's money.
After catching in everything I had to pay them, and what I really should have done was gone bankrupt.
From 2017, honestly, I would have added £2 million.
I could have done whatever I wanted with it.