Peltier: Lee Anthony (Lee)

2012-2014 (Leeds Player Details) (Player Details)

Right Back

Born: Liverpool: 28-09-1982

Debut: Shrewsbury Town (h): 11-08-2012

5’8” 11st 4lbs (2012)

Born and raised in Toxteth, Peltier went to St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, which won the Merseyside Schools Cup in 1996 and provided several players that joined the Anfield Academy. After joining the Academy he became a regular with the Liverpool Reserves. He was chosen for the England Under-Eighteen team and made three appearances. He was soon involved with the first team squad and was named in the squad for the first time, when he was an unused substitute for the home leg of the Champions League qualifier against Maccabi Haifa on 9th August 2006. On 25th October 2006 he made his first team debut in a League Cup tie against Reading in a 4-3 win at Anfield, when he played seventy-three minutes before being replaced by Jay Smith. He followeed this up by playing the full game in the 1-0 win at Birmingham City on 8th November 2006 and in the 2-6 loss at Anfield to Arsenal on 9th January 2007 in later rounds of the same competition. In between those two games he made his UEFA Champions League debut for Liverpool against Galatasaray on 5th December 2006, again playing a full game as the Reds went down by 2-3 in Istanbul. Peltier was loaned to Hull City in mid March 2007 until the end of the season and he made his debut in a 4-0 home win on 31st March 2007 over Southend United. He played in the seven games to the end of his loan period starting five and coming from the bench twice, as he played, as a fifty-first minute substitute, in the final fixture in which the Tigers lost 1-2 at home to Plymouth Argyle, but they had already avoided being relegated. He was included in the first team squad for the 2007-08 pre-season friendlies and on 14th July 2007 he scored his only goal for Liverpool in a friendly with Crewe Alexandra. On 30th July 2007 Peltier was loaned to Yeovil Town for the 2007-08 season and he made his Yeovil debut in a 1-0 loss to Huddersfield Town at the Galpharm Stadium on 11th August 2007, the opening game of the season. He made nineteen League, one F.A. Cup, one League Cup and two Football Trophy starts before Yeovil took up the option to sign him on a permanent basis on 31st January 2008. He scored his only goal for Yeovil in the twenty-eighth minute of the 3-2 win at Swindon Town on 20th December 2008 and went on to play fifty more times in the League, of which one was as a substitute, twice in the F.A. Cup and twice in the League Cup after signing permanently and he was sold to Huddersfield Town on 30th June 2009 for a small undisclosed fee on a three year contract. He made his debut on 8th August 2009 in a 2–2 away draw at Southend United. After an injury to the Huddersfield Town left-back, Peltier was switched to left back and became the first choice left back for the remainder of the season, as Town reached the semi-final of the play-offs and then in the final game of the season he reverted back to his Right Back position after Tim Clarke had been injured. Town were beaten 2-0 by Millwall on aggregate in the play-off semi-finals but Peltier was voted the Players' Player of the Season, in his first season at Huddersfield. In July 2010, Peltier was linked with a £3 million move to Queens Park Rangers, who were then managed by Neil Warnock. In August 2010 he signed a new contract at Huddersfield which would keep him at the club until 2014. He opened his goal-scoring account with the Terriers with an injury-time equaliser against Cambridge United in the First Round of the F.A. Cup on 16th November 2010, a game which Town went on to win with a second injury-time goal. He got his first League goal in the thirty-fifth minute of an away game at MK Dons on 22nd April 2011, a game that Town won 3-1. He did get a third goal, a second in the League, when he scored Town's opening goal in the twenty-sixth minute of a 3-3 home draw with Bournemouth in the play-off semi-final second leg, a game which the Terriers won 4-2 on penalties, but were defeated 0-3 by Peterborough United in the Final. Peltier had been an Huddersfield regular in his two years with them and had scored once in eighty starts in the League, once in eight starts in the F.A. Cup, had started four League Cup games and six starts in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and scored once in five play-off games. On 22nd June 2011, he signed a three year contract with Leicester City for a fee of £750,000, which could have topped £1 million with add-ons. He made his League debut for the Foxes on 6th August 2011 at the Ricoh Arena against Coventry City and was on the score sheet in the fifty-second minute, with the only goal of the match. Hid second League goal came on 7th April 2012, in a 4-0 win over Doncaster Rovers at the Walkers Stadium, when he got the second goal two minutes into the second half. He started thirty-nine and came off the bench once in the League, started four and was a substitute once in the F.A. Cup and made one start and had one game from the bench in the League Cup and was well established as Leicester's first choice right-back. So it came as a surprise when new Manager Nigel Pearson bought Ritchie De Laet from Manchester United in July 2012. There was immediate interest in Peltier from Huddersfield Town and Neil Warnock at Leeds United with a fee of £600,000 being mentioned. He signed for Leeds United on 4th August 2012 on a three year contract. He made his Leeds debut on 11th August 2012 in the League Cup at home to Shrewsbury Town and his League debut followed a week later at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. He was appointed captain of Leeds United for 2012-13 and remained as such until the start of the 2013-14 season when Rodolph Austin took over. He was almost an ever-present in his first season at Leeds and this continued in the first half of 2013-14, before he fell out of favour with Brian McDermott. This saw him loaned to Nottingham Forest at the beginning of March 2014, with a view to selling him but after seven starts for Forest he returned to Leeds on 4th May 2014 and no offer was forthcoming. On 23rd June 2014 it was announced that by mutual consent his contract with the club had been terminated with one year of it still to run and, after interest had been shown by Bolton Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers, he joined his old club Huddersfield Town on 23rd June 2014 on a three year contract. He was appointed Town's captain and led them in the first game of the season on 9th August 2014, in a 0-4 defeat at Bournemouth. He then lost his captaincy to new signing Mark Hudson in October 2014 and after just eight starts and three games from the bench in the League and one start in the League Cup, he was transferred to Cardiff City on 24th January 2015 on a free transfer on a three and a half year contract. He made his Cardiff debut in a 0-2 home loss to Derby County on 31st January 2015 and had made fifteen League starts by the end of the 2014-15 season.