 Banks started the 1964–65 season on wages of £40 a week, and the club only agreed to pay £60 a week in December.These miserly wages made it difficult for the club to spend the £80,000 it received from the sale of Frank McLintock – he had put in a transfer request over dissatisfaction with his pay and quality replacements were reluctant to join a club that paid full internationals like Banks and McLintock no more than the base rate that rival clubs paid to average players.Leicester finished 18th in the league and were knocked out of the FA Cup by Liverpool at Anfield in the sixth round.