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Lee Payne
Personal information
Full name Lee John Payne[1]
Date of birth (1966-12-12) 12 December 1966 (age 57)[2]
Place of birth Luton, England
Position(s) 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 34 (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
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 34 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] Payne's father was a manager in non-league football in England, notably Wealdstone. Payne who has a strong Christian faith is also Ambassador for Sports Chaplaincy uk .

References

  1. ^ "Lee Payne". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Lee Payne". UK A–Z Transfers. Neil Brown. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  3. ^ a b Harman, John, ed. (2005). Alliance to Conference 1979–2004: The first 25 years. Tony Williams Publications. p. 293. ISBN 978-1-869833-52-7.
  4. ^ Harman ed., Alliance to Conference, p. 293.
  5. ^ "The agent's view". The Guardian. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 29 September 2016.


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