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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
But once outside investments come in, all kinds of people come out the woodwork.
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And I think we have to sift through all of them, which this V-level people went through and mine was a little bit before them.
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Um,
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But mine had been going on for a long time because I'd just been paying every single... It wasn't a one-off.
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So, for example, 2017, I was paying off from 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018, I was paying off all the way up.
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So really, it's trying to play catch-up until last year when I'd caught up to one more year.
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And if they just said, okay, we'll allow you to then build it up and pay next year.
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But I said, no, no, no, no, no.
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We want it now, so...
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But to be honest with you, I don't think players will go on to that because don't forget, any player who's making any money outside of football,
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in endorsements and stuff like that are top, are Premier League players.
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You know, you don't get players in the second division of League Two who have any money to be doing anything apart from the salaries they get, so.
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An accountant is very important.
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Graham Taylor.
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John Barnes: Liverpool Legend, Battles with United & Tackling Racism | Stick to Football EP 112
Graham Taylor said to me, when I was playing for Watford and I'm playing really well, you know the press, oh, we love you, we've been meeting many nights, you're great.
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Then for Liverpool, for England, they're like, give me a bit of stick.
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I was only 19 and he goes, listen, he said, you know when you play for Watford and they say you're brilliant and you're great and you're fantastic?
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He said, do you believe them?
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He said, if you believe them, when you play for England and they sell you out your crap, believe that as well.
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Okay.