{"id":239164,"date":"2023-10-22T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239164"},"modified":"2023-10-22T15:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T15:54:54","slug":"im-a-former-premier-league-star-who-personally-cost-club-owner-1million-but-he-had-no-clue-who-i-was-when-we-met-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/lifestyle\/im-a-former-premier-league-star-who-personally-cost-club-owner-1million-but-he-had-no-clue-who-i-was-when-we-met-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm a former Premier League star who personally cost club owner \u00a31million – but he had no clue who I was when we met | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
FORMER Premier League striker Leroy Lita has revealed that ex-Reading owner John Madejski didn't know who he was when he joined the club.<\/p>\n
Lita, now 38, joined the Royals from Bristol City in 2005.<\/p>\n
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Then-owner Madejski spent \u00a31million of his own money in order to sign him, but he didn't even know what the striker looked like.<\/p>\n
Discussing his move to Reading on the Under the Cosh podcast, Lita said: "I walked into the Madejski Stadium, when he paid \u00a31million. Not out of the budget, it was out of his own pocket.<\/p>\n
"So I've walked into the Madejski Stadium to do my medical and stuff like that, I've gone into the restaurant with my agent, walked past him and he didn't have a clue who I was.<\/p>\n
"Didn't even know what I looked like, swear down.<\/p>\n
"I could have been anyone. He was like 'oh, good morning guys'. He was with Cilla Black at the time. He was having dinner or lunch with Cilla Black.<\/p>\n "My agent had to go 'John Madejski, this is Leroy by the way'. He was like 'oh, how are you'.<\/p>\n "I was like, he didn't even know who I was! He just paid a million pound out of his back pocket for me. What's going on!"<\/p>\n Lita spent four years with Reading before moving to Middlesbrough in 2009.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n FREE BETS – BEST BETTING OFFERS AND BONUSES NEW CUSTOMERS<\/strong><\/p>\n The striker has played for 21 different clubs so far in his career, including Swansea, Brighton, Birmingham, Sheffield Wednesday and Norwich.<\/p>\n He is now playing for Nuneaton Borough in the Isthmian Premier League North.<\/p>\n<\/picture>OUT OF TOON <\/span><\/p>\n
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