record signings who has been the best

[waylander]

just wondering who have been our decent record signings . we have had some rubbish but have we had any go on to be top class.  

[teblin]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/record-signings-been-more-miss-198396

 

Not a great list. Elliott is guess is about the best

[Aus Fox]

Our re ord signing tends to turn out to be shite!

[Sir Shep]

Mark Draper did well, he was our first £1M player I believe. 

[Fox92]

Ulloa.

[joachim1965]

2 hours ago, Sir Shep said:

Mark Draper did well, he was our first £1M player I believe. 

Wasn't Mark Robbins our first £1m signing ? I maybe wrong but thought he was .

[StriderHiryu]

Got to be Matt Elliott. Captained the club to a cup and was one of our best defenders ever till recent years. Still at the club for the TV / social media side and an all round top guy. If you’ve ever met him in real life you’d be pleasantly surprised. All that and a very good player and leader. 

[Sir Shep]

7 minutes ago, joachim1965 said:

Wasn't Mark Robbins our first £1m signing ? I maybe wrong but thought he was .

No I think draper cost £1.25M and was a Brian Little signing, about 2 or 3 years or so before Robins. 

[Lestoh]

Riyad Mahrez, the record being the biggest profit we've made on a player

[Sir Shep]

1 hour ago, Fox92 said:

Ulloa.

Yeah a bargain considering what he’s done for the club, like Draper was and Elliot. Not all have been so bad. Was it Mark Blake who the mercury proudly said smashed our transfer record at a £380,000! Them were the days!

[rn9013]

Unbelievable to think that only 4 years ago we broke our transfer record with £8million for Ulloa. Just goes to show how crazy football fees have gone in 4 years when £8m wouldn’t really buy you a championship player now. 

 

 

[joachim1965]

1 hour ago, Sir Shep said:

No I think draper cost £1.25M and was a Brian Little signing, about 2 or 3 years or so before Robins. 

Mark Draper joined in 1994. Mark Robbins joined July 1995 for £1.3m, so yes, Mark Draper was indeed our first £1m player.

[Tuna]

Probably go with Ulloa.

[weller54]

Len Glover.. £80k from Charlton!.. 

Wonder what his wages were back then (1968?)...£200 pw? 

[Bert]

1 hour ago, joachim1965 said:

Wasn't Mark Robbins our first £1m signing ? I maybe wrong but thought he was .

Signed Draper at the start of 94/95, Robins half way through. 

[Gerard]

Elliott was the best signing out of that lot because he was brilliant and stayed here for years. A cultured centre half who just about won everything in the air in both boxes.

 

Mark Draper was one of the best players we ever had. He was a beautiful footballer in a team of cloggers. I remember we played Tottenham and Klinsmann had signed for them and afterwards he said "I'd never heard of Mark Draper before but there he was running the game like a young Lother Mattheus".  Draper only lasted a season here but Klinsmann told Bayern Munich they should go and get him. 

 

It's funny because I thought Draper would go on to be a top player but he never did that much after he left Leicester.

 

 

[Tielemans63]

I've been going to City matches since the early 90s so for me it's Matty Elliott by a country mile. One of my favourite ever players and undoubtedly one of our greatest signings. In terms of service to our club his contribution is unrivalled I would say.

Edited 5 August 2018 by Paddy.

[WigstonWanderer]

I believe Allan Clarke was not just a leicester transfer record but an English League record. Don’t think it stood long though. I do recall being very surprised that we held the new record.

 

He’s here

He’s there

He’s every fvckin where

Allan Clarke, Allan Clarke...

Edited 5 August 2018 by WigstonWanderer

[Fox92]

1 hour ago, rn9013 said:

Unbelievable to think that only 4 years ago we broke our transfer record with £8million for Ulloa. Just goes to show how crazy football fees have gone in 4 years when £8m wouldn’t really buy you a championship player now. 

 

 

I remember at the time the £8m being questioned then. I was very impressed with Ulloa against us that season but didn't think it'd take that much to buy him.

[Finnegan]

Given that Ulloa has a premier league winner's medal and was instrumental in keeping us in the league the year before, I'm not really sure how it's even a contest. 

[urban.spaceman]

Has to be Ulloa. Let me make the case:

 

In his first 5 games he scored 5 goals, which earned us 7 points. Without them goals we would have only had 2 points, and would have been much worse off during the Great Escape. Later on in the season he aided the Great Escape with crucial goals & points vs Swansea and Newcastle.

 

In the title-winning season, he played a crucial part in our team. Very rarely starting, but always came on for a knackered Shinji and gave us something different up front and in defence, helping us to see those games out. He scored arguably two of the biggest goals of that season. We'd had 2 weeks to get over the devasting last-minute defeat against Arsenal; Claudio had let everyone have a holiday to clear their heads. Along came Norwich, who were one of the first teams to change their system to stop ours. Which worked. Until Mahrez crossed it low, Vardy's touch took it out the path of the defenders, and Leo was there in the last 2 minutes of the game to smash it home and literally cause an actual earthquake. It caused me to fall off my chair in a pub in Cape Town too!

 

Then 6 weeks later, some dodgy refereeing decisions left us 2-1 down at home to Wham. Schlupp wins a penalty in the last last last last minute. Vardy's already been sent off and Mahrez already substituted, so Leo steps up. With his balls of steel. And smashes it home. I'm screaming down in Botswana. The following week, he steps up and delivers two goals for the one man team. A crucial extra 4 points his goals gave us towards the title.

 

The less said about his contribution since the better. But without a doubt he's our best ever record signing.

 

Thanks Leo!

[urban.spaceman]

[waylander]

10 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Has to be Ulloa. Let me make the case:

 

In his first 5 games he scored 5 goals, which earned us 7 points. Without them goals we would have only had 2 points, and would have been much worse off during the Great Escape. Later on in the season he aided the Great Escape with crucial goals & points vs Swansea and Newcastle.

 

In the title-winning season, he played a crucial part in our team. Very rarely starting, but always came on for a knackered Shinji and gave us something different up front and in defence, helping us to see those games out. He scored arguably two of the biggest goals of that season. We'd had 2 weeks to get over the devasting last-minute defeat against Arsenal; Claudio had let everyone have a holiday to clear their heads. Along came Norwich, who were one of the first teams to change their system to stop ours. Which worked. Until Mahrez crossed it low, Vardy's touch took it out the path of the defenders, and Leo was there in the last 2 minutes of the game to smash it home and literally cause an actual earthquake. It caused me to fall off my chair in a pub in Cape Town too!

 

Then 6 weeks later, some dodgy refereeing decisions left us 2-1 down at home to Wham. Schlupp wins a penalty in the last last last last minute. Vardy's already been sent off and Mahrez already substituted, so Leo steps up. With his balls of steel. And smashes it home. I'm screaming down in Botswana. The following week, he steps up and delivers two goals for the one man team. A crucial extra 4 points his goals gave us towards the title.

 

The less said about his contribution since the better. But without a doubt he's our best ever record signing.

 

Thanks Leo!

Beautiful account how can anyone argue with that argument. 

[waylander]

1 hour ago, Gerard said:

Elliott was the best signing out of that lot because he was brilliant and stayed here for years. A cultured centre half who just about won everything in the air in both boxes.

 

Mark Draper was one of the best players we ever had. He was a beautiful footballer in a team of cloggers. I remember we played Tottenham and Klinsmann had signed for them and afterwards he said "I'd never heard of Mark Draper before but there he was running the game like a young Lother Mattheus".  Draper only lasted a season here but Klinsmann told Bayern Munich they should go and get him. 

 

It's funny because I thought Draper would go on to be a top player but he never did that much after he left Leicester.

 

 

Remember Draper didn’t he come from notts county . Then buggered of too villa with little . He looked great in my sober moments jurying that time . 

[Foxaholic ME]

4 hours ago, Worthington said:

I'd go with Elliott too, with Draper and Glover not too far behind!

Clarke was a decent footballer, but a moody, self centred individual who didn't often display a 'team' ethic !

What strikes me though is about the transfer record NOT being broken for a while.... That was in the 'Bloomfield years' , when we saw a succession of highly talented players arrive without threat to the £150k that Clarke had cost!

Glover and Weller were great also Dougan and Worthington   McAllister  Gibson   I dont think with all due respects that Matty would rate himself above these