Jamie Vardy used to drink every day, and even turned up to training drunk, before a conversation with Leicester City's billionaire owner turned his life around.
The England international, whose goals have fired Leicester to an unprecedented Premier League title, was last week named the Football Writers' Player of the Year.
But when he first arrived at the club, after signing for £1m from non-League Fleetwood Town in 2012, he struggled to adjust to the rigours of the Championship, according to Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, son of the club's owner and a vice-chairman of Leicester.
'He went straight from the bottom to the Championship, which eventually led him to start drinking booze every single day. We had no idea what to do,' Srivaddhanaprabha told a magazine in Thailand.
'I didn't even know about this until someone told me that he came to train while he was still drunk.'