GORDON BANKS (1937-2019), A December 1964 contract for Gordo...

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GORDON BANKS (1937-2019), A December 1964 contract for Gordon Banks at Leicester City where he agreed a weekly wage of £60 per week from 11th December 1964 to 30th June 1966, there are a number of other financial provisions written into the contract signed by the Secretary of Leicester City and Gordon Banks, Gordon joined Leicester City in 1959 and this particular contract has significant importance (Banks started the 1964-65 season on wages of £40 a week, and the club only agreed to pay £60 a week in December, these miserly wages made it difficult for the club to spend the £80,000 it received from the sale of Frank McLintock, he had put in a transfer request over dissatisfaction with his pay and quality replacements were reluctant to join a club that paid full internationals like Banks and McLintock no more than the base rate that rival clubs paid to average players)