Peter Taylor Leicester City: Last Season: 8th, 55pts W 16 D7 L15 F55 A55 Stadium: Filbert Street (110x76yds) Capacity: 22,000 Year Formed: 1919 Manager: Peter Taylor Chairman:

Ade Akinbiyi

Taylor also has money to spend which is more important than respect when you are preparing go up against the Manchester United's and Arsenal's of this world. Desperately hard-up throughout the 90s, Leicester are now suddenly awash with cash, thanks to the sale of Emile Heskey and a lucrative £12.5m deal with NTL. So far Taylor has spent £10m -more than Manchester United, Liverpool and Aston Villa - on five lower division players: Gary Rowett, Callum Davidson, Simon Royce, Trevor Benjamin and Ade Akinbiyi. Most of them lack experience at the top level, and how they perform will say a lot about Taylor's judgement - and his coaching ability.

Gary Rowett

It's hard to draw too many assumptions from pre-season friendlies, but from what we've seen it's not unreasonable to expect Taylor smooth the Foxes rough edges, and get them playing the same enterprising and insightful football his England U-21's and Gillingham sides were noted for. There could also be a change of formation. During Leicester's final friendly against RKC Waalwijk, Taylor started with 4-4-2, with Rowett, Elliott, Walsh and Davidson in the back four, Collymore and Akinbiyi up front and Darren Eadie on the wing. Yet - ever versatile - he switched to 3-5-2 at half-time.

Muzzy Izzet

The only worry for Leicester fans must be their front line, although Tony Cottee insists he's still got goals left in him. Collymore is brilliantly erratic; Akinbiyi is pacy, powerful and profligate; and Benjamin is big and bustling but very raw. Goals without Heskey could be a problem - and they have been in pre-season. But the Foxes have enough quality elsewhere to maintain their mid-table position.

2000-2001 SQUAD NUMBERS

1 Tim Flowers (G)
2 Gary Rowett (D)
3 Frank Sinclair (D)
4 Gerry Taggart (D)
5 Steve Walsh (D)
6 Muzzy Izzet (M)
7 Neil Lennon (M)
8 Rob Savage (M)
9 Darren Eadie (F)
10 Stan Collymore (F)
11 Steve Guppy (M)
12 Simon Royce (G)
13 Arnar Gunnlaugsson (F)
14 Callum Davidson (D)
15 Phil Gilchrist (D)
16 Stuart Campbell (M)
17 Stefan Oakes (M)
18 Matt Elliott (D)
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20 Trevor Benjamin (F)
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22 Ade Akinbiyi (F)
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24 Andy Impey (D)
25 Stuart Wilson (M)
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27 Tony Cottee (F)
28 Lawrie Dudfield (F)

Tommy Goodwin (D)
Tim McCann (M)
Ross Mitchell (M)
Garry Parker (M)
Michael Price
Jordan Stewart
Danny Thomas (D)
Robert Ullathorne (M)

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