After leaving Posh in a reported £10 million move to Championship side Brentford in the summer the classy all-round striker has scored 14 goals in 16 second tier games.
Toney, who started 77 times for Posh in two seasons after a £300k move from Newcastle United and rattled in 49 goals, is already being touted as a transfer target for Premier League clubs.
He wouldn’t be the first ex-Posh player to get to the top-flight. In the past the club has seen former players win international caps, Premier League titles, European competitions, play in World Cups and win the FA Cup.
Others have gone on to enjoy excellent careers with big clubs in big competitions and we recognise those players here.
The PT’s top 12 Posh achievers (in reverse order)...
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ADAM DRURY: Posh years 1996-2001, Posh apps: 176. Unarguably the greatest left-back in Posh history. One-on-one he was virtually impossible to get past and his quality on the ball improved with experience. Drury helped Posh win promotion from the old Division Three through the play-offs in the 1999-2000 season and some eye-catching displays the following season caught the attention of some bigger clubs. Norwich City took him for a fee of £500k and he was soon skippering the side to promotion to the Premier League. Drury spent 11 years at Carrow Road and made over 350 appearances for the club. Later in his career he was hampered by a persistent knee injury and short spells at Leeds and Bradford City followed before retirement. Drury was a Posh Academy graduate and now coaches a young Canaries team while helping out on first-team match days at Carrow Road. Photo: Midlands
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GARY BREEN: Posh years 1994-1996, Posh apps: 86. There aren't many former Posh players to have scored in a World Cup Finals, but this stylish centre-back did, netting for the Republic of Ireland against Saudi Arabia in 2002. That was one of 63 Irish caps Breen won for his country. He also scored an international goal in Holland. In his early Posh days, after a move from Gillingham, manager John Still often played him in midfield, but his pace and ability to read the game made him an outstanding centre-back. Posh sold Breen to Birmingham who moved him on to Coventry City where he played for five seasons, four of them in the top flight. He also appeared at Premier League level for West Ham and Sunderland. There were rumours of a move to Inter Milan after the 2002 World Cup. Breen briefly coached the Posh defenders in 2013. Photo: Midlands
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SIMON DAVIES: Posh years 1997-1999, Posh apps: 75. The best ever graduate from the Posh Youth Academy was a dashing midfielder with an eye for goal. It was a sad day when he left for Spurs aged 20 for a reported fee of £700k, but he went on to do his first club proud in a career that also included top-flight spells with Everton and Fulham, although it was at the two London clubs he really excelled. Davies helped Roy Hodgson’s Fulham famously beat Juventus in a 2010 Europa League semi-final before scoring in the final against Atletico Madrid, although the Spaniards went on to win the game 2-1. ‘Digger’ also won 58 caps for Wales and scored a brilliant goal in one of his country’s greatest wins, 2-1 over Italy in 2002. Davies is now back at Posh assisting another high-achieving former player, Matthew Etherington, in running the club’s under 18 side. Photo: Midlands
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DAVID SEAMAN: Posh years 1982-1984, Posh apps: 109. Martin Wilkinson didn’t achieve a great deal in football, but he does have the distinction of introducing goalkeeper David Seaman to professional football. Wilkinson moved from Leeds United to become Posh manager in 1982 and brought Seaman with him. It was soon obvious Seaman was far too good for Division Four so a move was always inevitable and he left for Birmingham for £100k in 1984, then to QPR and finally to Arsenal for a then record fee for a goalkeeper of £1.3m. And it was during his near 500-game spell with the Gunners that his career really took off as he won three Premier League titles, four FA Cups, one League Cup and a European Cup Winners Cup. Seaman also won 75 England caps and played at two World Cups in 1998 and 2002 to make him the the undisputed daddy of the high achieving former Posh players. Photo: Midlands