The former Liverpool midfielder, now 66, has a selection of medals, match shirts and memorabilia spanning his entire career across almost 60 lots, and the catalog reads like a record of one of our most dominant eras.
Budds describes it as “a career told through medals, match shirts and the little details that stay with a player long after the final whistle”.
This isn’t a story about hard times or despair, and that matters.
It’s about access for supporters to own well-documented items that are at the heart of our history, from European Cup nights to title-winning seasons.
Slot can speak of future recruitment, including Jacquet, but this week’s reminder is that our past still carries weight and is now ending up in the hands of collectors.
What Sammy Lee is Selling at the Budds Auction
The main lots are the European Cup winners’ medals, with Budds on list a Liverpool vs Real Madrid UEFA European Cup winners medal from 1981 (lot 382), estimated at £10,000 – £15,000.
A Liverpool v Roma UEFA European Cup winners medal from 1984 (lot 383) is also estimated at £10,000 – £15,000.
There is also a European Cup runners-up medal from 1985 (lot 384), estimated at £2,000 – £3,000, plus the 1978 and 1984 UEFA Super Cup runners-up medals (lot 385-386), estimated at £1,000 – £1,500 each.
The list also includes Football League Champions medals across multiple seasons, each with significant estimates, alongside League Cup winners medals and Charity Shield plaques.
Budds also notes that the collection includes England caps, including one representing several 1984 European Championship qualifiers and linked to Sammy Lee’s senior debut against Greece on November 17, 1982, when England won 3-0 with Sammy Lee scoring.
The shirts are also a key part of the appeal, with Budds highlighting swaps from contemporaries such as Ian Rush and Joey Jones, plus youth level shirts from the early years.
Sammy Lee Liverpool stats show why this is a unique part of our story
The figures underline just how central Sammy Lee was during Liverpool’s peak period, and they are worth noting as this sale takes place.
Sammy Lee joined Liverpool in 1972, turned professional in April 1976, made his Liverpool debut on 8 April 1978 and made his last appearance on 6 May 1986.
During his Liverpool career, Sammy Lee played 295 games, scoring 19 goals and recording 43 assists, with 197 league appearances netting 13 goals and 27 assists.
The list of honors is even louder: five league titles, four League Cups and two European Cups, with Budds placing particular emphasis on the 1983/84 season when Sammy Lee played all 67 games and Liverpool completed an historic treble.
It also lands true against the modern backdrop The Athletics have reported that our current wage bill is £421 million, which inevitably sharpens the contrast between today’s wealth and the era when medals were earned as an expectation rather than a surprise.
We’ve also recently seen other former Reds medals come up for auction at significant valuations, and it remains the same bittersweet theme: priceless memories leaving private homes, but supporters being given the opportunity to properly preserve and display them.
For Liverpool fans, the question is not why Sammy Lee is selling, but whether we can resist the temptation to own a tangible part of the story.
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