Contemporaneous with the signing, before the season unwound & people were trying to use his salary as a stick to beat us with, reported by an unbiased source as £1.3m = £25k a week.
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Boksic was 4 years later. I'm not sure about him being paid £63k either.
7 years after Boksic we were going to make Mark Viduka our highest paid player ever (according to Keith Lamb afterwards) before he joined Newcastle, when they bombed him out two years later it was reported he was on £60k. Why would you join Newcastle for less money than Boro were offering?