You don’t often find a player who scored 90 goals for Argentine giants Boca Juniors and missed out on a £24.6 million summer move to Liverpool at St Johnstone.
Sadly for Saints fans, the above statement remains true: there is no such player on the books at the Perth club.
But not if you believe the Wikipedia page of Saints’ defender Brian Easton, who has clearly been the victim of someone somewhere being creative with the truth.
The Wikipedia page has raised a few laughs as well as eyebrows at McDiarmid Park after it suggested that Easton left Burnley to sign for Boca Juniors for a fee of £12 million, rising to £15.8 milion because of his success.
It also claimed that Easton, after moving to St Johnstone in 2013, signed a new two-year deal earlier this year with a £24.6 million buyout clause which was triggered by Liverpool in August, although no deal was done because the player couldn’t agree personal terms.
Thankfully, Easton himself has seen the funny side.
“I hadn’t a clue about it until some people started mentioning it on Twitter,” he explained.
“It came as a surprise to me that I had played in Argentina for Boca after leaving Burnley and that I had failed to agree personal terms with Liverpool on a mega deal a few months ago!
“I don’t know how these things operate but obviously someone is having a bit of fun. I thought it was legit. Maybe it is someone I know being a bit mischievous or they’ve too much time on their hands.
“It’s a bit of a laugh and maybe a few years down the line I could use it to big-up my lucrative career!”
Easton was able to chuckle about it yesterday, but he is deadly serious when it comes to Saints and their current predicament.
“Right now I’m more concerned about getting a win against Partick to rectify our recent results,” he said.
“We want to get a win on the board and while it could be quite gloomy after five league defeats on the bounce everyone has been upbeat in training. We are looking forward to the match and hopefully we can kick on and have a good week, with three big games crammed into six days.
“We are looking for four good results before the next international break but we know there’s a lot of hard work to be done to make it happen.”