Leon Best

[gastric]

Best to Wednesday it seems. You can thank me Owls fan for keeping you up to date!

http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/leon_best_back_to_sheffield_wednesday_836574/index.shtml

[Crosby87]

You haven't been the same since Steve Irwin harassed one too many animal Gastric.

[gastric]

It seems Best is attracting a bit of interest from a number of Championship clubs which is good news for him and us.

http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/millwall-weighing-up-move-for-blackburn-rovers-striker-leon-best210/#

[Olé Olé]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28602184

Best to Derby seems to be on the cards. A good move for all parties, in my opinion.

[DeLorean]

He'd have his work cut out to become a regular starter.

[Olé Olé]

Dawkins, Sammon, Russell, Martin, Ward are their strikers and I think 3 of them are more forwards/wingers whilst Sammon and Martin are strikers. He's done well in the Championship and PL in limited spurts when afforded a run of games by management and injury. I'd be fairly sure that Best has more PL goals than those 5 combined.

[DeLorean]

Martin is very much their main man (25 goals last season) and they tend to go with only one up front. Sammon very rarely started and even Bamford, who had hit the ground running on his loan spell, was generally used off the bench in the latter part of the season. Yeah the wingers don't really come into the equation but they are after signing a nineteen year old striker today also, one for the future though I'd imagine.

Leon's Best* chance would be for Derby to go with two up front but that would entail dropping either Hendrick or Hughes, which seems unlikely. Who knows though, injuries and so on will play a part as well.


*ahem

[TrapAPony]

2140
Just signed a season long loan to Derby

[Eminence Grise]

Fingers crossed he has a good season and gets a solid run of games and goals.

[Stuttgart88]

2140
Just completed a season long loan to Derby

That must have been the quickest season ever.

[DeLorean]

That must have been the quickest season ever.

This has even more substance now as he has returned to Blackburn from his 'season long loan'!

dcfc.co.uk (http://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/article/leon-best-returns-to-blackburn-rovers-2186018.aspx)

[OwlsFan]

As a matter of interest why has this thread got 5 stars while many others don't even rate a star or are Mrs Best and family busy pressing the rate button?

[OwlsFan]

Ahhh, just noticed it only takes one vote as I experimented with the Kieren Westwood thread.

[DeLorean]

I just knocked this thread down a star.

Westie > Bestie

[CraftyToePoke]

And to Brighton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30897913

For a guy who looked to have goals in him at Newcastle, he seems to get moved along a fair bit.

[tetsujin1979]

And to Brighton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30897913

For a guy who looked to have goals in him at Newcastle, he seems to get moved along a fair bit.
reunited with his manager from Newcastle, where he had a good run. Hope Hughton can get the best out of him again (pun sort of intended)

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Available on free transfer after mutual release from Blackburn.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11676/9907006/leon-best-leaves-blackburn-rovers-on-free-transfer

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Unwanted by League One Coventry.

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/coventry-city-not-interested-former-9717966

[tetsujin1979]

not going to be offered a deal by Huddersfield: http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2015/10/06/huddersfield-end-interest-in-free-agent-best/

[tetsujin1979]

according to this, he's training with Rotherham at the moment: http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/rotherham/rotherham-united-other-deals-close-as-leon-best-and-adam-drury-train-with-millers-1-7549020
But there's another artile on Sky Sports from a week previous that says he won't be joining them: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11747/10048160/hibernian-striker-jason-cummings-target-for-rotherham-united

[tetsujin1979]

signed for Rotherham until the end of the season: http://www.themillers.co.uk/news/article/rotherham-united-leon-best-2803824.aspx

[tetsujin1979]

out for another few weeks following surgery on a groin problem: http://www.itsmillerstime.co.uk/2016/01/rotherham-striker-leon-best-set-for.html

[DeLorean]

Two goals for Best against former club Derby as Rotherham come from 0-3 down with seven minutes left to level!

Hendrick & Stephen Kelly both had assists in the game. Best came on for Paul Green after 69 minutes at 0-3.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Leon Best, they said. Be grand, they said. Went 41 games without scoring, they said.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Now he's putting a dent in Ipswich's promotion aspirations.

3 in 2.

[Stuttgart88]

West Brom allegedly interested (@fl92transfer on Twitter)

[tricky_colour]

Well he is was with Rotherham, last, I had to laugh when I discovered Rotherham's ground is called the New York stadium.

[TheOneWhoKnocks]

In 2016 a crack striker was released by a Championship team for a crime he did not commit. This man promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Ipswich underground. Today, still wanted by Mick McCarthy, he survives as a striker of fortune. If McGoldrick has an injury problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Leon.

Leon Best on trial at Ipswich.

[CraftyToePoke]

Jaysus TOWK lay off the crack for a spell, chap.

[The Fly]

In 2016 a crack striker was released by a Championship team for a crime he did not commit. This man promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Ipswich underground. Today, still wanted by Mick McCarthy, he survives as a striker of fortune. If McGoldrick has an injury problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire Leon.

Leon Best on trial at Ipswich.

Banter.

[SkStu]

Leon: The Professional

[tetsujin1979]

signed a one year deal with Ipswich Town: http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/leon-best-3279875.aspx

[tetsujin1979]

Training with Charlton according to sky sports

[samhaydenjr]

Training with Charlton according to sky sports

Would be his 13th senior club - has managed over 300 appearances in his nomadic career - would also be joining another well-travelled Irish forward, Billy Clarke - any chance of him going for a mad scoring spree, helping them gain promotion and giving us another striking option for Euro 2020? No?

[tetsujin1979]

Signed a two month contract with Charlton: https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5a1d89fd36e6e/done-deal-charlton-sign-experienced-striker-on-short-term-contract
Has gone straight into the starting XI tonight against Peterborough

[KrisLetang]

All these teams always want the Best.

[tricky_colour]

That is one of your Best comments Kris!!

[DeLorean]

Has gone straight into the starting XI tonight against Peterborough

Was substituted by the time Charlton scored twice in injury time to secure a 2-2 draw (remarkably similar to the West London derby the night before).

[irishfan86]

Was encouraging to see the Charlton manager say he's top 3 or 4 in the squad in terms of explosive speed. Would be a cool comeback story if he can pop a few goals in this campaign and become a Championship regular next season.

[tetsujin1979]

Interview with him yesterday in the Independent: 'The doctor said my body reacted to illness like a rat’ - Leon Best (https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/the-doctor-said-my-body-reacted-to-illness-like-a-rat-leon-best-36435091.html)
That infection sounds horrific.

[zero]

not looking good for leon. a serious knee injury:

https://www.themag.co.uk/2018/01/latest-serious-injury-now-ended-former-newcastle-strikers-career-leon-best-newcastle-united//

could be a career ender...

[Demesne Lad]

So is Leon Best finished with professional football? A sad end for someone who once scored 10 goals in 35 appearances for Newcastle (11 from the bench).