Sol Campbell wants fans to know he did not ask for a penny back of the £1.7m owed to him by Portsmouth Football Club as the club's survival was threatened.
Campbell, 48, was captain of the side that won the 2008 FA Cup, but the South Coast club soon fell on hard times.
The club was relegated several times, and entered financial administration twice, before being saved from a High Court liquidation order by the Pompey Supporters Trust in April 2013.
Portsmouth owed Campbell £1.67m in bonuses and image rights - plus another £200,000 in interest.