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 Les FERDINAND 1993-1997 
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Stats made by: Interista93 with suggestions from gurkenjoe93 and Stuart Bannigan

Name: Leslie Ferdinand
Nickname: "Les", "Sir Les"

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Country: :ENG: England
Club: Queens Park Rangers F.C. (1989-1995), Newcastle United F.C. (1995-1997)
Position: *CF
Side: RF/BS
Age: 27-31 years (08/12/1966)

Height: 180 cm
Weight: 85 kg


Attack: 87
Defence: 39
Balance: 88
Stamina: 81
Top Speed: 83
Acceleration: 78
Response: 86
Agility: 77
Dribble Accuracy: 78
Dribble Speed: 80
Short Pass Accuracy: 72
Short Pass Speed: 73
Long Pass Accuracy: 69
Long Pass Speed: 74
Shot Accuracy: 86
Shot Power: 84
Shot Technique: 87
Free Kick Accuracy: 68
Curling: 71
Header: 91
Jump: 88
Technique: 81
Aggression: 90
Mentality: 77
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 76

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition: 6
Weak Foot Accuracy: 5
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 6
Growth type: Standard/Lasting

CARDS:
P19 - Fox in the Box
S03 - 1-on-1 Finish
S05 - 1-touch Play

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Positioning - 1-on-1 Scoring - Post Player - 1-touch Play

Attack/Defence Awareness Card: Attack Minded


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Les Ferdinand is a former centre forward. His career began in 1984 in lower leagues, playing for Southall and Hayes. He joined in 1987 Queens Park Rangers but he first played on loan for Brentford and Beşiktaş. The good 1988-89 season with the Turkish team, where he scored 18 goals in 30 matches, made QPR bet on him. Ferdinand eventually scored 90 goals in 184 games until he left in 1995 for Newcastle United. He stayed for two seasons with the Magpies, scoring 50 times in 84 matches. He then played for Tottenham Hotspur from 1997 to 2003, scoring 39 goals in 149 appearances. He retired in 2006 after spells with West Ham United, Leicester City, Bolton Wanderers, Reading and Watford. He gained 17 caps for England, scoring 5 goals. A very powerful striker and a consistent scorer, Ferdinand was a threat inside the box. He was gifted with an elegant style, good speed, technique, dribbling, sense of position and great opportunism. His skills made him capable to take the ball in the midfield, bring it forward, resist to the charges from the defenders and reach the goal. Highly effective in 1-on-1 situation in front of the goalkeeper, he had an outstanding finishing ability but his main quality was his heading, always with great timing, combined with a huge leap with which he towered most defenders, hanging in the air waiting for the ball. didn't use this ability just to score but also to provide numerous assists. He possessed an explosive shot and the ability to score first time or from long range.



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Sun May 20, 2018 2:02 pm
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It's not really important, but he's known as "Sir Les" by Newcastle fans.


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Updated.


Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:57 pm
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Don't think that a player who didn't even score once >30 goals in a season needs both ATT and AGG in orange, not even mentioning BB, HEA and several other key stats in high yellows. Konami rated him with 86 for ATT for example, something like that or 87 should be more than enough for him. BB is also overrated, he had decent strength for a player of his (rather average) size but he usually beat defenders by those sprints (therefore TS should be raised a bit), not by pushing them around easily. I also don't see why he needs 93 for HEA, his headers were good, not outstanding and he certainly didn't score such numbers there to give him such a value. His main source of goals was his good shooting technique, even in the box he prefered to score with volleys or control the ball first before shooting (and not going in for a header in almost every situation like a specialist like Klose for example). He also doesn't look that stiff in his movements, neither in the box and also not in his changes of directions when going past a defender, white AGI is certainly off in this aspect.
Maybe Stuart has some ideas as well, this set is certainy not perfect atm despite going in the right direction.


Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:10 pm
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I agree with everything maybe except heading. As I mentioned in the info, and the videos also show that, he didn't just deliver headers to score but also to assist. The videos I posted don't even show all his goals. Whenever the ball reached him, it was almost sure that he hit it with the head and usually with impressive leaps. I might decrease HEA but not under orange in my opinion.
Regarding the rest, I'd give ATT 87 as you suggest plus BAL 88 and AGG 88-89. Maybe ST can go up by 1, TS by 2 and AGI could be on high green. Let's wait what Stuart thinks.


Sat Jul 17, 2021 5:24 pm
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I'd give him 87 ATT but I'd keep AGG and HEA in orange. Something like 91 for heading and 90 for AGG. He was one of the best players in England in the air during the 90s.

BTW I don't see AGG as an "ability" that you can be better at or anything, I just use it to try and replicate a certain style of playing. High AGG isn't always good or helpful and low AGG can certainly be useful for certain styles. Les was a proper penalty box striker though and IMO orange AGG would replicate that combined with 87 ATT and 86 RES without making him too overpowered inside the box. Yes he never scored an incredible amount of goals but he was one of those guys who would reliably get you 20 or more goals in all competitions. About BAL I wouldn't say he was as strong as Hateley so I'd give him 88. I can't really say about AGI since it's not something I ever really noticed about him.


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Updated with your suggestions.


Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:18 pm
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