Lee Payne
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lee John Payne[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 12 December 1966[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Luton, England | ||
| Playing position | Left winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1982–1985 | Luton Town | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985–1987 | Hitchin Town | ||
| 1987–1988 | Barnet | 5 | (0) |
| 1988–1989 | Newcastle United | 7 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | Reading | 27 | (3) |
| 1990–1991 | BV Veendam | 32 | (10) |
| 1991–1993 | FC Emmen | 25 | (2) |
| 1993 | Gateshead | 1 | (0) |
| 1994–1995 | BV Veendam | 6 | (1) |
| 1995–1996 | WKE | ||
| 1996–1997 | HHC Hardenberg | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Lee John Payne (born 12 December 1966) is an English former professional footballer and currently a football agent. He played as a left-winger in both England and the Netherlands.
Payne joined Luton Town as a schoolboy, but was later released as an eighteen-year-old. His first senior appearance in football came with Hitchin Town in 1985 and after a successful spell there he moved on to Barnet, for whom he played twice in the Conference[3] as they finished in second place at the end of the 1987-88 season.
After three more appearances for Barnet the following season,[3] Payne was sold to Newcastle United for a non league record transfer fee of £125,000 and in October of that season made his football league debut against Middlesbrough in a 3-1 victory at St James Park. He went on to make seven appearances for the Magpies before moving to Reading in March 1989 for a transfer fee of £60,000.
After making 36 appearances and scoring 3 goals Payne moved to the Netherlands to play for Eerste Divisie (second-tier) club BV Veendam in 1990. In his first season he became BV Veendam's player of the year making 32 appearances and scoring 12 goals. In 1991/92 Payne was transferred for a sum of around £100,000 to rival Dutch club FC Emmen where he spent three seasons before returning to BV Veendam for a further season only to be forced to end his professional playing career in 1995/6 through a serious knee injury after a short spell back in England in 1993, during which he played once in the Conference for Gateshead[4] - although Payne continued playing for another few years back in amateur football in the Netherlands.
After fully retiring, he subsequently became a scout for a number of clubs throughout Europe, including West Ham, before later becoming a football agent, holding a FIFA agent's license and represents a number of high-profile footballers in England[5] for the sports agency Full Contact.[6] Payne's father was a manager in non-league football in England, notably Wealdstone.[5]
References
- ↑ "Lee Payne". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ↑ "Lee Payne". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- 1 2 Harman, John, ed. (2005). Alliance to Conference 1979–2004: The first 25 years. Tony Williams Publications. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7.
- ↑ Harman ed., Alliance to Conference, p. 293.
- 1 2 "The agent's view". The Guardian. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ↑ "Lee Payne". Full Contact. Retrieved 29 September 2016.