LONDON: Letters written by footballer David Beckham when he was a teenager, revealing his weakness for girls and his joy at his first modest wage packet, were sold for £900 ($1,600) at an auction here.

The two letters, and a drawing, were penned by the England captain when he was just 16. In them he reveals his trainee wage packet was £120.

“I got my first wage packet the other day and a bonus, which come to £120, so that I went to the bank and I have got about £250 in there now,” wrote the footballer, who now earns an estimated £100,000 a week at Real Madrid.

The letters were written to his friend Lee and the picture, which accompanies the first letter, is of a greyhound called Rosie Red.

“I’ve been doing really well with my football as well as with girls, because we are United players and they all want to go with us,” Beckham wrote within days of signing with Manchester United as a trainee in the summer of 1991.

The letters were sold at Bonhams auction house in Chester, and were expected to fetch up to £1,500.