Newcastle United star Allan Saint-Maximin used to be receiving fines daily for tardiness.
The Frenchman is said to have developed a regular habit of arriving late for training.
However, the club's former assistant coach Stephen Clemence says the issue had to do with Saint-Maximin's children, not other problems.
Clemence told The Times: I've worked with great professionals who've been great football players, like John Terry at Villa, James Chester [at Hull and Villa], Robert Snodgrass [Hull and Villa], but Jack [Grealish] and Allan [Saint-Maximin] are the best two things I've ever seen on a training pitch.
To work with someone like Jack is phenomenal. I've never seen a talent like his. You just can't get the ball off him. He carries the ball so well; he's a great lad, he'll listen, he doesn't think he knows it all. We still speak now and again.
Allan can do things at speed with a football which you just don't think are even possible. He cuts inside, he has got end product, there's no doubt about that. The problem he's found is that people know what he's going to do more now and people are doubling up, tripling up on him, but he can go past people so, so easily.
"He's a nice lad as well, quite laid-back. Sometimes he used to annoy some of the lads as he turned up a little bit late. But he wasn't out drinking at night. He'd be late because he'd be taking his kids to school. I can't say I taught him too much because he's just a natural talent. We tried to help him defensively."