Lee Payne

Lee Payne was born in Luton, England in 1966.Lee began learning his football trade as a left winger by Luton Town as a school boy but was later released as an eighteen year old. His first senior appearance in football came at Hitchin Town FC in 1985 and after a successful spell moved on to earn his first achievement in football by finishing as runner up for Barnet FC in the GM Conference in 1987/88 season. The following season Lee was sold to Newcastle Utd for a non league record transfer fee of £125,000 and in October of that season made his football league debut against Middlesboro in a 3-1 victory at St James Park, he went on to make 7 appearances for the magpies before moving on to Reading FC in March 1989 for a transfer fee of £60,000. After making 36 appearances and scoring 3 goals Lee moved to Dutch first division side BV Veendam in 1990 where in his first season became BV Veendam's player of the year making 32 appearances and scoring 12 goals. In 1991/92 Lee was transferred for a sum of around £100,000 to rival Dutch club FC Emmen where he spent 3 seasons before returning back to BV Veendam for a further season only to make a premature end in 1996 to his playing career through a serious knee injury. For the last 10 years Lee has held a Fifa agents license and represents a number of high profile footballers in England under the name of his company Lee Payne Associates Ltd.