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Ex Players - They used to play for us

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murphy

murphy

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2 hours ago, BKLFox said:

Dj Campbell cost 3.5m & only scored 5 goals for us in 4 seasons....does Akinbiyi just stick in peoples heads due to the 5m (a whole 1.5m more than Dj), the size of him & relegation season because there have been a lot worse.

I think it's what we lost due to that signing. 

 

We had fought hard to become an established Premier league force for the first time in my lifetime. 

 

Akinbyi was the marquee signing for the Taylor revolution, a club record and emblematic of the unravelling of O'Neill's team and the wilderness years that followed. 

 

I remember scratching my head as to why we were going for that big lump of a forward from Championship Wolves at the time.  

 

There is a reason he became a joke figure here.  It was the signing that sealed our fate more than any other. 

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davieG

davieG

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18 minutes ago, murphy said:

You're saying that Akinbyi scored 9 in his second season?   Wikipedia says that he scored 11 in 58 league games with us. 

According to Foxestalk history section - https://www.foxestalk.co.uk/history/player_details.php?pid=218

 

Seasons League   FA Cup League Cup Europe Other Total  
Year Division Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls Apps Gls  
2000-01 Premier League 37 9 4 1 - - 2 0 - - 43 10
2001-02 Premier League 21 2 2 0 1 1 - - - - 24 3
Total   58 11 6 1 1 1 2 0 - - 67 13

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BKLFox

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34 minutes ago, murphy said:

You're saying that Akinbyi scored 9 in his second season?   Wikipedia says that he scored 11 in 58 league games with us. 

No 9 in his 1st season and 2 in his 2nd half season 

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BKLFox

BKLFox

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26 minutes ago, murphy said:

I think it's what we lost due to that signing. 

 

We had fought hard to become an established Premier league force for the first time in my lifetime. 

 

Akinbyi was the marquee signing for the Taylor revolution, a club record and emblematic of the unravelling of O'Neill's team and the wilderness years that followed. 

 

I remember scratching my head as to why we were going for that big lump of a forward from Championship Wolves at the time.  

 

There is a reason he became a joke figure here.  It was the signing that sealed our fate more than any other. 

For sure a case of what we lost, in my previous post We were feeling flush I guess settled in the top 10 He was really a victim of our decline with MoN leaving, Lennon going with him & going from having Heskey & Collymore to having a broken Sturridge, Benjamin, Deane & Akinbiyi burdened by Taylor putting a club record fee on him.

 

The midfield went from a set 3 of Izzet Lennon & savage to Jones, Wise & 1 of the disinterested pair of Izzet & Savage.

We went from Guppy on the LW to having Trevor Benjamin there all orchestrated by the 1 & only Peter taylor 

 

We were going down regardless of Akinbiyi signing or not 

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murphy

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13 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

For sure a case of what we lost, in my previous post We were feeling flush I guess settled in the top 10 He was really a victim of our decline with MoN leaving, Lennon going with him & going from having Heskey & Collymore to having a broken Sturridge, Benjamin, Deane & Akinbiyi burdened by Taylor putting a club record fee on him.

 

The midfield went from a set 3 of Izzet Lennon & savage to Jones, Wise & 1 of the disinterested pair of Izzet & Savage.

We went from Guppy on the LW to having Trevor Benjamin there all orchestrated by the 1 & only Peter taylor 

 

We were going down regardless of Akinbiyi signing or not 

Yes, I blame Taylor more than Akinbyi for our demise.  Taylor was backed financially in a way that O'Neill never had been.  It was the perfect chance to kick on, but we blew it on absolute rubbish, Akinbyi being at the forefront of those and he became the Steve Finn of football.  A walking case of the yips and becoming so bad that he was basically laughed out of town.

 

Btw, I'm sure that Sturbridge, Deane came after Taylor.

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Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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4 minutes ago, murphy said:

Yes, I blame Taylor more than Akinbyi for our demise.  Taylor was backed financially in a way that O'Neill never had been.  It was the perfect chance to kick on, but we blew it on absolute rubbish, Akinbyi being at the forefront of those and he became Steve Finn of football.  Basically a walking case of the yips and becoming so bad that he was basically laughed out of town.

 

Btw, I'm sure that Sturbridge, Deane came after Taylor.

 

Deane was post-Taylor, Sturridge was signed under him though

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Corky

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Akinbiyi's first season wasn't terrible, his goals return similar to a lot of Heskey's seasons (though nowhere near the all round game). His second was a painful experience, he just lost everything. We were a poor team that could not afford its striker to miss those chances.

 

The price tag worked against him. The poster boy for a club who had spent large money and the quality declined.

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foxile5

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5 hours ago, ParkerPen said:

if that's not a damning indictment of how useless Daka has been, I don't know what is :)

Daka is a worse signing than Akinbiyi.

 

He's on fifty games with club and country with something like a single goal. 

 

He doesn't look like scoring. At least Akinibiyi was in a position to score. 

foxile5

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2 hours ago, bovril said:

Akinbiyi's game against Liverpool is undoubtedly the worst I've seen from a Leicester striker and one of the worst from any professional footballer. 

Agreed. But he was in the position. Our current strikers aren't 

 

ParkerPen

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8 hours ago, foxile5 said:

Daka is a worse signing than Akinbiyi.

 

He's on fifty games with club and country with something like a single goal. 

 

He doesn't look like scoring. At least Akinibiyi was in a position to score. 

No I agree, I hadn't really thought about the direct comparison until it was mentioned here but I believe you are right.

davieG

davieG

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Davie Gibson ⚽️🔥

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Belated Happy Birthday.

 

Comments

 

John Deacon
You was my favourite player in the sixtys I couldn't believe it when me and my Dad done your reroof in Leicester forest east take care John

Roberto Sudale
I remember jumping up off the little wall to pass him the ball to take a throw in and then watching it on the tele later. Great player.

William Terrence Lander
A true gentleman

Ian Wyatt
Great player. Mr red boots.

Andrew Mansfield
Top guy Davie and his old mate Frank McLintock,I remember their free kicks!

Stan Malkin
Well Done Applause Sticker

John Williams
A great player always glad to see him in the team 🦊

Ken Pruden
He could drop a ball on a sixpence.

Clive Jackson
He had so much control of the ball and it was a joy to watch him play at Filbert Street.

Kevin Joyce
Gibbo I remember my dad bringing me to watch the city in mid sixty watching from the double decker you keepy puppy from the top to the centre circle .I will never forget that

Steven Glew
Does he still live in Leicester??

Mark Merrill
Fantastic player- first real hero for me 👍

John Hatton
Remember when he used to do keepi uppi around the centre circle

Rob Elson
Top draw player. Great to watch. Wish we had him now.

Keith Bishop
Took us for coaching at belvoir drive (Leicester schoolboys) back in the sixties
Lovely man


Marius Fernandes Goencho Festakar
 One of our greatest player

Gary Cockshaw
My dad's favourite player. Would love to have seen him play

Eric Wade
Gibo 🦊🦊💙💙

Mike Payne
 Best player to wear the shirt

Mike Payne
I saw him the day he signed for his photoshoot at F St. Was juggling the ball with his feet. Very talented player

Brian Playfair
A great favourite of mine. A truly superb player.

Phillip Headley
What a player brilliant

Brian Prince
A very clever player

Ken Hill
Legend.

Maurice Lockton
Best team Leicester ever had

John Shelton
The wizard of Leicester, great ball player, genius,
 

 

 

 

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davieG

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Ken Leek, at Highbury 1961
 
Ken Leek was dropped by Leicester City for the 1961 FA Cup Final, despite scoring in every round of the competition leading up to it. Leicester lost the final 2-0 to Tottenham Hotspur and never played for Leicester again.   
 
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Foxmeister

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Akinbiyi’s finishing was inarguably awful but it was highlighted by

 

a) his movement, pace and strength being so good meant he had a lot of opportunities to display his terrible finishing.

 

b) TV football being mostly highlights meant his missed chances were more prominent.

 

A player like Daka, who is ineffective in every department, just becomes anonymous.

 

Confidence is important to a striker, Akinbiyi never played in a side doing well, Daka has.

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volpeazzurro

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16 hours ago, murphy said:

I think it's what we lost due to that signing. 

 

We had fought hard to become an established Premier league force for the first time in my lifetime. 

 

Akinbyi was the marquee signing for the Taylor revolution, a club record and emblematic of the unravelling of O'Neill's team and the wilderness years that followed. 

 

I remember scratching my head as to why we were going for that big lump of a forward from Championship Wolves at the time.  

 

There is a reason he became a joke figure here.  It was the signing that sealed our fate more than any other. 

Only surpassed by just about all of Rodger’s signings, no there’s a man with the Midas touch (in reverse)! He managed to dismantle something special and turn it into long term uncertainty!

murphy

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5 hours ago, Foxmeister said:

Akinbiyi’s finishing was inarguably awful but it was highlighted by

a) his movement, pace and strength being so good meant he had a lot of opportunities to display his terrible finishing.

b) TV football being mostly highlights meant his missed chances were more prominent.

 

A player like Daka, who is ineffective in every department, just becomes anonymous.

 

Confidence is important to a striker, Akinbiyi never played in a side doing well, Daka has.

I'll give you a) but I was there so I  didn't get highlights and those misses were glaring!

 

I became conditioned, Pavlovian style, to remaining slumped in my seat any time Akinbyi was sent clear one on one.  There was no danger of him scoring. 

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