September 8, 1898
Alex Raisbeck, formerly of the Hibernians, who went to Stoke to help in the test matches, is to-day the best paid player in the League. Liverpool are paying him £7 a week, and when everything is reckoned in he will have cost the club at the end of April just £13 a week.
(Source: Edinburgh Evening News: September 8, 1898)
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