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Leroy Lita
  • Leroy Lita

    Club: Middlesbrough
    League: Championship
    Position: Striker
    National team: None
    Current rank: 2457
    Age: 25
    Nationality: English
    Games: 58
    Goals: 15
    Striker

    2.8

    OVERALL RATING
    Middlesbrough
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    FourFourTwo rating: 6.7
    Club (overall): 2.8
    International: N/R
    Middlesbrough fans: 5.5
    Other fans: 2.8

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    5.6 Shooting
    4.8 Passing
    5.6 Heading
    1.6 Tackling
    6.4 Pace
    4.8 Work-rate
    4.8 Crossing
    4.8 Creativity
    4.8 Dribbling

    Views: 328     Ratings: 71     (4) Comments

Striker

Nippy striker who came to prominence helping Reading into the top flight. Failed to nail down a place once the side were there

Former Chelsea trainee Lita made a big impression at first club Bristol City, bagging 38 goals in 100 games.

A hornet of a striker with bags of pace and no shortage of confidence, no matter how he performs, 5ft 7in Lita’s £1m switch to Reading in July 2005 paid immediate dividends: his 15 goals in 32 games helped the club up to the Premier League.

He never hit the same heights in the top flight, scoring just seven goals, and a fall-out with boss Steve Coppell resulted in the former England U21 player spending the latter half of the 2007-08 campaign on loan at Charlton.

 
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huggy1975 huggy1975 (on 03.09.2009 at 8:53pm) says:
A decent player, not sure what happened at Reading.

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Tommy C Tommy C (on 15.12.2008 at 1:10pm) says:
only suits championship level.

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pne_33 pne_33 (on 22.08.2008 at 9:36pm) says:
I think he is massively over-rated.

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Murakami66 Murakami66 (on 23.07.2008 at 11:10am) says:
Lita is somewhat infuriating. Played big part in 05-06 Championship winning side, had purple patch in winter of first premiership season, with a memorable winning brace at Citeh and a decent run in England U21s. But has self-destructive billy-bigtime problem with nightcubs, mobile phone vids, flash cars etc. Second season in Prem was very poor - early appearances saw him fall over a lot (a recurring theme) and the goals dry up. Then he fell out with Coppell, and it all went wrong. You get the feeling it could go either way - get his atitude right, have a bit of luck, and career could take off. Or could be a messy slide into multiple-clubs and unfullfilled potential.

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