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  .. Taylor upsets Wolves over Akinbiyi (04/09/01)  
 

It looks like Leicster City manager Peter Taylor has been upsetting our friends at Wolves over their attempts to re-sign Ade Akinbiyi.

Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey confirmed that Wolves formally approached City with a view to re-signing Leicester's 26-year-old under achieving striker but was met with a very stern Peter Taylor.

Moxey though believes that the only thing stopping Ade Akinbiyi becoming a Wolves player again is Peter Taylor's pride! It appears that Peter Taylor does not wish to make a loss on his first and most expensive signing.

The Wolves supremo said "We have made a number of inquiries about the availability of different strikers this summer and Ade was one of the players we thought about.

"However, we have been told that he is not for sale. In all honestly, I think Peter would sell him but he does not have the appetite to do business with us.

"I think he feels he overpaid when he bought Ade for £5 million last year and, as we would not pay that figure, Peter would lose face if he sold him to us at a large loss. I think he's too proud a man to do that."

In all honesty FFS can not see that being the only reason why we are stuck with Akinbiyi. Not only would any loss on his put even more pressure on Taylor to quit, it would also prove that he is as inept at playing the transfer market as we first feared.

On the other hand, Akinbiyi has constantly under perfomaned and some would say that money in the bank is better than money down the drain. But for all of Akinbyi's sins, do City have anyone to replace him?

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