Dipo Akinyemi: Somerset setup a perfect match for striker's talent, says recruitment chief

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The man who discovered Ayr United's new goal machine insists the striker's stunning start is about far more than his goals on the pitch.Somerset recruitment chief, Keith Glendinning, put the name of little-known Dipo Akinyemi on the table as The Honest Men hunted a new number nine in the summer.Four months on, the hitman has bagged ten goals in his first nine Championship games and is fast becoming the talk of Scottish football.But for Glendinning, who put in the hours watching Akinyemi trying to catch a break in England's non-leagues, the striker was a stand-out waiting to happen.

He told the Ayrshire Post: "When someone like Dipo comes along, people say there must be a lot of players like him kicking around down south. "And whilst it's true that there's a massive pool of players down there, you need a lot of things in your favour to have the kind of success that Dipo is enjoying just now."A big factor for me was our ability to get him up here for a full pre-season.

It allowed him to come in and transfer that raw, physical ability he has into the player you're seeing just now."A lot of boys struggle with the switch from part-time to full-time football, so it's never a given that you'll get quick results."But when I first saw Dipo, I was struck by his tendency to score every type of goal.

That's exactly what you want in a striker and you're already seeing that with him up here."It remains early days as we're only in October but he's someone who is earning justifiable hype - not only because of his goals but the workrate that goes with it."He has a desire on and off the pitch...he could easily have stayed down south and taken whatever offer came along but he wanted to come up here and prove himself."Akinyemi's 19 goals