Ade Akinbiyi
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Adeola Peter Akinbiyi (born October 10, 1974 in Hackney, London) is a Nigerian footballer with British citizenship. 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 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, and wore the number 55 shirt - one of the highest numbers ever worn by any player in English football.
With just 1 goal in 14 league and cup appearances, he was loaned out to Stoke in 2002 before joining that club on a free transfer. 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. The reason for the increase in price being his success in the top scorers list earlier in the season, reaching the top for quite an amount of time. 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.
| Season | Club | Apps (Sub) | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993–1994 | Norwich City F.C. | 0 (2) | 0 |
| 1994–1995 | Norwich City F.C. | 6 (7) | 0 |
| 1994–1995 | Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. | 7 (0) | 4 |
| 1995–1996 | Norwich City F.C. | 16 (9) | 5 |
| 1996–1997 | Norwich City F.C. | 3 (9) | 0 |
| 1996–1997 | Gillingham F.C. | 19 (0) | 7 |
| 1997–1998 | Gillingham F.C. | 48 (0) | 22 |
| 1998–1999 | Bristol City F.C. | 49 (0) | 23 |
| 1999–2000 | Bristol City F.C. | 4 (0) | 2 |
| 1999–2000 | Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. | 39 (1) | 16 |
| 2000–2001 | Leicester City F.C. | 39 (4) | 10 |
| 2001–2002 | Leicester City F.C. | 18 (6) | 3 |
| 2001–2002 | Crystal Palace F.C. | 9 (5) | 2 |
| 2002–2003 | Crystal Palace F.C. | 2 (12) | 1 |
| 2002–2003 | Stoke City F.C. | 4 (0) | 2 |
| 2003–2004 | Stoke City F.C. | 24 (8) | 10 |
| 2004–2005 | Stoke City F.C. | 30 (0) | 7 |
| 2004–2005 | Burnley F.C. | 9 (1) | 4 |
| 2005–2006 | Burnley F.C. | 33 (0) | 14 |
| 2005–2006 | Sheffield United F.C. | 10 (5) | 3 |
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