Ade Akinbiyi
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| Ade Akinbiyi | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Adeola Peter Akinbiyi | |
| Date of birth | October 10, 1974 | |
| Place of birth | Hackney, London, England | |
| Nickname | Panicbuyi and Akin-Bad-Buy | |
| Position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Sheffield United | |
| Number | 8 | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Norwich City | ||
| Professional clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (goals) |
| 1993-1997 1994 1994 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-2006 2006- |
Norwich City Hereford United (Loan) Brighton & Hove Albion (Loan) Gillingham Bristol City Wolves Leicester City Crystal Palace Stoke City Burnley Sheffield United |
49 (3) 4 (2) 7 (4) 63 (28) 47 (21) 37 (16) 58 (11) 24 (3) 63 (19) 39 (16) 18 (3) |
| National team** | ||
| 1999 | Nigeria | 1 (0) |
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* Professional club appearances and goals |
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Adeola Peter Akinbiyi (born October 10, 1974 in Hackney, London) is an English footballer of Nigerian descent. He is a striker for Sheffield United in the Premiership.
Ade has had a colourful career with many different clubs. He began his career in 1992 at Norwich City and was loaned to Hereford and Brighton & Hove Albion before completing a £250,000 move to Gillingham in 1997. He scored 29 goals in 67 league and cup games and was quickly transferred to Bristol City for £1.2m.
His stock continued to rise and after scoring 21 goals in 47 league appearances for Bristol City he completed a £3.5m move to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1999. The year after that, he made his debut in the English Premier League with Leicester City.
Despite costing £5m, he managed to score only 11 goals in 58 league appearances for the club, resulting in a £2.2m transfer to Crystal Palace in Division One, where he wore the number 55 shirt - one of the highest numbers ever worn by any player in English football.
Having scored just one goal in 14 league and cup appearances, he was loaned out to Stoke in 2003. He scored twice - the second goal coming in the last game of the 2002-03 season, when The Potters won 1-0 against Reading to seal their Division One (now 'The Championship') status. He later joined on a permanent basis, on a free transfer, and became a cult hero with the Stoke City crowd.
He completed a £600,000 move to Burnley and then moved on to his current club in January, 2006, Sheffield United for a then club record £1.75 million.
He scored on his debut for the Blades against Derby County, and on February 18, 2006, Akinbiyi scored in his first Steel City derby at Hillsborough.
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| Sheffield United F.C. - Current Squad |
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1 Kenny | 2 Bromby | 3 Unsworth | 4 Davis | 5 Morgan | 6 Jagielka | 7 Ifill | 8 Akinbiyi | 9 Hulse | 10 Webber | 11 Kabba | 12 A. Quinn | 13 Bennett | 14 Sommeil | 15 Kozluk | 17 Montgomery | 18 Tonge | 19 Gillespie | 20 Armstrong | 21 Leigertwood | 22 Lucketti | 23 Shipperley | 24 Short | 25 Wright | 26 Geary | 27 Nadé | 28 S. Quinn | 29 Gerrard | 30 Li | 31 Law | 32 Kazim-Richards | 33 Annerson | 34 Ashmore | 37 Marrison | 39 Hao | -- Gyaki | -- McFadzean | Manager: Warnock |
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