signings that made you jump out of your seat

[edd]

it has to be martin keown the former arsenal man

i must admit he was a bit of a suprise

[dandannieldanok]

Carl Cort - sheer disbelief that we signed someone so injury prone and generally crap. The way it was talked up and the fuss the club made over it was probably the most disbelieving thing.

[Guest]

Collymore first and foremost, after that Keown, Mancini, Les Ferdinand was almost up there with Collymore, Flowers, Darren Eadie at the time seemed a great buy, Pontus Kaamark, Mark Draper, Garry Parker (bloody blinding he was!) thats all I can come up with right now

[MC Prussian]

None, really.

We always seemed to have fared best in the past with some of the (allegedly) most unproven, unknown, unfit or oldest players you can think of. Collymore being an exception.

Think of Walsh, Izzet, Elliott, Marshall, Eadie, Savage, Guppy, Parker, Ferdinand, Ullathorne et al.

[demon_dog]

More recently, Stan Collymore and goalkeeper Ian Walker.

Way back when, Allan Clarke, although he turned out to be not the player we thought he was (for us anyway).

Macini was very good, I thought possibly a bit too clever for the team around him, as such at times he could look poor due to others not reading his intelligent passing.

[demon_dog]

Oops! Forgot Sir Les, of course a good signing.

[willy37]

zagorakis.

loved that guy

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

I was well chuffed with Clemence, Oakley and Howard.

[liamherbertlcfc]

dabizas

[Cropwellfox]

Ricky Hill...

...unfortunately at the time i hadn't realised that with advancing age sometimes ability fades...

I'll never forget the day that he had to have a breather after warming up next to the family enclousure. Hilarious!!

[Zingari]

most of the jimmy bloomfield signings were sit up and take notice special ,

weller

worthington

kember

garland

sammels

eddie kelly

webb

earle

we were in danger of becoming a "fashionable " club for the first and only time

[carterfox90]

show my age now mind you i was young at the time

worthington liverpools loss was our great gain pure class that team was the reason i fell in love with city

collymore him & heskey would have been awesome

flowers great goalie

kaamark what a defender man marked juninio out of the final & replay the reason we won it imo great defender

[Candidcamera]

Allen Clarke - a real surprise

Derek Dougan - but more for the shock horror when we sold him on the transer deadline.

Keith Weller/ Jon Sammels/ Birchenal.

Frankie Wortho

Stan Collymore

Ferdinand

[FoxesFan123]

Lilian Nalis - a Frenchman playing in Seria A coming to us?!?!?!

[Wycombe Fox]

I've been jumping out of my seat from 1971 to 2002;

Alan Birchenall

Jon Sammels

Keith Weller

Frank Worthington

Steve Earle

Chris Garland

Steve Kember

Steve Lynex

Gerry Daly

Steve Claridge

Tony Cottee

Stan Collymore

Tim Flowers

Roberto Mancini

Ian Walker

Les Ferdinand

No-one after Sir Les has made me leave my seat!

[jaspal1000]

Dabizas? wow i forgot him

[Sparky]

Collymore

Mancini

Flowers

Ferdinand

Connolly

to name a few

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

I was quite excited when we signed DJ Campbell!

Collymore, Impey (always liked him at QPR), Marcus Bent, Iwan Roberts, Speedie (Not due to excitment!), Marco Ferreira (He just had a good player name) , Ferdinand, Dublin and Connolly

[Dan]

Stephen Clemence

Steve Howard

Matt Oakley

Aleksandar Tunchev

I was quite excited when we signed DJ Campbell!

Collymore, Impey (always liked him at QPR), Marcus Bent, Iwan Roberts, Speedie (Not due to excitment!), Marco Ferreira (He just had a good player name) , Ferdinand, Dublin and Connolly

I was in a way but that was down to the transfer fee.

[Finnegan]

Not necessarily when he signed but I saw the Barcelona friendly at the Walkers and was ludicrously excited about Nalis. His range of passing and his work rate were absolutely exceptional.

What the fuck happened after that is beyond me.

[Alexikokopops]

I remember blanking the price from my mind and being excited when Howard and Oakley came. That was the latest.

[Dan]

Robbie Neilson

[THEfox]

Cottee and Collymore,

Just imagine if those two had played together, Mmmmmmmm!

[Old Aylestone]

We had just been promoted from the old Second Division. On the same day Jimmy Bloomfield signed Keith Weller and Alan Birchenall. Both were proven players at the highest level and in one fell swoop it showed the board were serious about becoming a top half of the First Division team. We all know what a great servant Birchenall has been. If grounds had been all-seater in those days Keith Weller would have had fans constantly out of their seat. With all due respect to Glover, Worthington, Lineker etc Keith Weller was IMO easily the most exciting Leicester player I have ever seen.

[Fez of Mahrez]

On the flipside, just talking about signings a few years back - my Dad told me a story the other day about how him and his mate (both Leicester fans) were driving to a work thing in Peterborough one day and it came on Radio Leicester that we'd sold Kitson to Derby and got Ormondroyd and Gee in part-exchange - and they pulled into a lay-by because they were that much in shock.

And when Corica signed and the commentary mentioned him in the first game of the season away at Sunderland and I didn't have a clue who he was.

Transfer deadline day, sitting looking at Teletext wondering who the hell M Izzet was.

I miss those days. Now we'd know about it 2 weeks beforehand, look them straight up on Wikipedia and already formed our opinions based on a load of their old clubs fans slagging them off on the internet.

Sad state of affairs in a lot of ways.

I loved it when we signed Mancini and Collymore. Darren Eadie too. They must have played less than 30 games for us between the three of them.