Leicester's biggest flop signings

[neiltheblue]

I think the whole Akinbiyi thing has been over blown. Don't get me wrong PT paid far to much for him and he was a terrible finisher, which is a problem for a PL striker. His biggest difficulty though was he was quick, strong, had good movement and read the game well. Put this altogether and you have a player who is getting half a dozen gilt edged chances a game and missing the vast majority.

Now this is all done in the most televised league in the world and MOTD is, all of a sudden, a weekly showcase of his misses. In other words had he scored the same number of goals from a 1/4 of the chances we wouldn't have complained nearly as much. In fact he'd have been where Nugent is now.

Edited 18 April 2013 by neiltheblue

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Akinbadbuy

Mills

Beckford

Dennis the little cvnt Wise

Tommy English

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

Just read this for a bit of amusement and expecting to see the usual suspects but I thought a few mentioned names were unfair. First two being Matt Jones and Darren Eadie, both very capable players who sadly got injured and had their careers ended. Eadie was a brilliant player and I was so happy when we signed him and so disappointed when he got injured. I also think Vassell was not a flop and Futacs hasn't been given enough opportunity yet to be considered either way. Why not go for most of the players signed by Craig Levein or Martin Allen and we have hit the nail on the head.

[deejdeej]

Cant quote it cause of my sh1tty phone, but that elephant gif made me im so immature

[kingfox]

Drinkwater.

[Father Ted]

Anybody Levein signed or who we paid over £2 million for.

[Bert]

Money wise it's Akinbiyi. We got well and truly ripped off there. Mills wasn't as bad as people made out IMO, he was just made a scapegoat amongst people because they believes we'd spent £5m on him.

[johnny the fox]

Still plays regularly - some footage from his recent performance for Bolton Reserves....

fookin glad mills ain't got tusks, or he would be a dead man now.. he should be in the circus though...

[dmayne7]

I don't think there's enough space in this whole forum to list all the Leicester flops! We along with probably Newcastle are the biggest graveyard for decent players.

[Sharpe's Fox]

Got to be Matt Mills, was brought in to be a rock in defence and Captain but was pretty useless at both.

[SystonFox]

People speculate about Mills and Beclfords wages? Care to guess how much they were on?

Dj Campbell for me was a flop. Always offside as the tune goes and also big wages (15k a week at a time we really shouldn't be spending that?!)

[foxfanazer]

Anybody Levein signed or who we paid over £2 million for.

The Levien era was soooo dull wasn't it!

[_Fatboyslow_]

Akinbiyi, Mills

Darren Eadie, Waghorn

Eadie ? Pls explain ? Now Lewis that's a differant story

Edited 19 April 2013 by _Fatboyslow_

[tomtom]

Kaebi - World's fastest player wasn't he

Lamey - Played a blinder against Sunderland in Pre Season, then turned out to be worse than Robbie Neilson.

It always amazes me that people thought Lamey had a good game against Sunderland, ...he was awful, constantly caught out of position and also at fault for their goal

[_Fatboyslow_]

And Dickov's return

[neiltheblue]

Arnar Gunnlaugsson and Lee Marshall

[bluesbrothers]

Crncic

Akinbiyi

Kaebi

Mills

Johnson

Vardy

Thread complete.

[cambridgefox]

Pains me to say it being from Cambridge but Trevor Benjamin and although at the twilight of his career Dion Dublin( hated even writing this)

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Pains me to say it being from Cambridge but Trevor Benjamin and although at the twilight of his career Dion Dublin( hated even writing this)

It pains me to read it

[preacher]

Scowcroft "The new Teddy Sheringham" according to Taylor. My ar5e he was.

Zelko Kalac

[kingfox]

Pains me to say it being from Cambridge but Trevor Benjamin and although at the twilight of his career Dion Dublin( hated even writing this)

Leave Dion alone.

[5waller5]

Carl Cort - i was delighted when we signed him - but was utter garbage!

[Bob Weasel Fox]

Tony Spearing

Nicky Platnauer

Lee Marshall

Rob Johnson

[stockyfox]

One for the history books! In Dec 1954, City paid Lincoln city what was then a club record fee of £27,600 for Andy Graver. He was bought to partner Arthur Rowley. As a centre-forward, he came with a glowing reputation, having scored 106 goals in 172 matches while at Sincil Bank. He played 11 games for City, scoring 3 league goals plus 1 in the Cup and was sold back to Lincoln in the close season for £26,000. Later that season, he signed for Stoke and scored the winning goal that knocked us out of the Cup in Jan 1956.

[Filbert The Fox]

Tommy English swap deal that saw Melrose going to Cov

Agree.Always remember going down 'Filbo' with me dad & his mate in the 80's when we signed him.Think we played

West Ham he was total shite. Remember me dads mate shouting 'You know what Thatcher said buy English some ****er buy him quick.' I was only about 12 & found it quite funny.