Clarets want Akinbiyi
Last updated : 17 February 2005 By Tony Scholes
The striker is currently in dispute with his club and hasn’t featured for almost four weeks. He is currently out with a thigh injury and that would rule him out of this weekend’s action.
Stoke have received two offers for the player and have accepted the other, believed to be from Sheffield United. Ours appears to be the biggest offer but it looks as though there are more extras to go with the other bid. Sheffield United are believed to have offered £600,000.
The oft maligned striker, now 30, started his career with Norwich and after a couple of loan spells he moved to Gillingham for £250,000. A year and a half later they sold him when John Ward paid £1.2 million to take him to Bristol City after he had failed in his efforts to get Andy Cooke.
Over the next few years a lot of money changed hands as he moved to Wolves, Leicester and then Crystal Palace. Those three moves cost £10.7 million in transfer fees alone.
It was at Leicester where things started to go wrong for him, signed to score goals he struggled with the fans turning on him. He’s not been a goalscorer since, and from Palace he went to Stoke after being with them a season earlier on loan where he scored the vital last day goal that ensured they weren’t relegated.
Time will tell whether he is set to become a Claret or whether he goes to Bramall Lane alongside the other twenty or strikers they have there.
