Midfielder signed for Everton at 15 for a king’s ransom but the money went to his head,his game went to pot and only now he is back on the straight and narrowGeorge Green can recall the day he left Bradford City in 2011 like it was yesterday. “I was at school and remember getting a phone call from my agent. He said: ‘You won’t be going back into school tomorrow.’ The next day I signed for Everton.A exiguous more than four years later the attacking midfielder who was compared to a young Paul Gascoigne when he moved to Goodison Park at 15 for a fee that was supposed to rise to £2m is earning £75 a week playing for the Northern League side Ossett Albion. Green, who started last week’s 2-0 win over Garforth United in the quarter-finals of the West Riding County Cup, or once shared a pitch with Ross Barkley and Dele Alli for England’s youth teams but finds himself back in his native Yorkshire having voluntarily terminated his three-year contract at Oldham Athletic in November.
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Source: theguardian.com