In a summer, when all the focus is on people like Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Viktor Gyokeres and Benjamin Sesko, a cast of strikers fly under the radar.
Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United all look at No. 9s and try to find the right deal for them. Chelsea also did not exclude another striker after the arrival of Liam Delap.
But the above -mentioned protagonists of the window are priced everywhere, from £ 70 million to well north of £ 100 million. Isn't there some alternatives that the bank would not break to this extent?
Well, we have decided to view the numbers – and this is what we have found …
Rodrigo Muniz
Muniz has no longer played for Fulham in the past year – and a function on the social media channels of the club unintentionally shone a light at the end of the season.
The image fourth how many Premier League goals Fulham's two most important strikers had scored. Raul Jimenez, the first choice, had 12 in 30 starts, while Muniz had eight out of eight.
Given that three of Jimenez's goals were scored from penalties, and Muniz did not take a spot kick for Fulham, then the Brazilian record becomes even more impressive.
Expand the comparison further and the figures will shock you: excluding criminal objectives, Muniz has the best success rate per 90 of everyone in the Premier League (0.76) to have played at least 20 percent of the available minutes this season.
Erling Haaland and Alexander Isak, perhaps two of the most valuable strikers in world football, are closest behind him with a return of 0.62 per 90.
Even if you include penalties, Muniz is in the second place of Mohamed Salah, Premier League Top Scorer last season, closely ahead at 0.77 after scoring nine times from the place.
Muniz is above this in terms of expected goals per 90 and is in fifth place in the Premier League when penalties are excluded – a clear indication that he can consistently be received in good goal scores.
Muniz is more than 6ft and is also a handful for defenders, shown in his unique capacity to win both air duels and mistakes at a higher pace than almost everyone in the Premier League. Handy when leading the line.
He is in second place for Aerial Duels won per 90 (6.34) and seventh for errors won per 90 (2,93) – but when you measure player performance in both statistics, Muniz is only strikers.
So why didn't he play anymore? Well, the figures suggest that Marco Silva tends to prioritize experience. His Fulham teams have on average the second oldest in the last two seasons – and were the oldest season before.
Perhaps for Muniz, who became 24 in May, that counted against him in the battle with the 34-year-old Jimenez for minutes. Silva can indicate a steady progression as a sign that his methods work after recording his best points return to Fulham.
But Muniz also has a strong thing to say that he earns more minutes. These figures suggest that he is the striker under the radar in the Premier League. Surveny Boswell
Yoane Wissa
Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland, Alexander Isak … and Wissa!
The striker of Brentford arranged in addition to the players who were considered the best three attacking options in the Premier League previous term for expected opportunities, with which he showed his talent because he was in the right place at the right time.
His 18 Premier League goals show this season that he is at the top of his game. So is he the right man at the right time for someone other than Brentford?
The situation of Brentford of Wissa is a complex one. The bees have already lost Thomas Frank to Tottenham Hotspur and Bryan Mbeumo is almost guaranteed with him through the output door. Losing a third key player is perhaps just too much for the bees, even with players like Kevin Damage and Igor Thiago waiting in the wings next period.
But again, Wissa has left for a year to his Brentford contract, with this summer that represents the last chance for Brentford to get compensation for a player who becomes 29 at the end of the window.
Nottingham Forest tested the waters of Brentford with an £ 22 million bid in January, which was immediately rejected. How would the bees react if a similar offer would come this summer?
Do they gamble on Wissa who deliver more goals in what an important season is for the club, do they lose him for free? Or do they reduce their losses and completely rebuild the front line? The £ 60 million reimbursement they expect for Bryan Mbeumo can dictate what Brentford does with Wissa.
Speaking of Mbeumo, he has an important role in playing in the future of Wissa. The couple has developed a decent report – so much so much that they became neighbors in their southwestern London district.
Wissa may not be able to deliver the same figures that he produced last season as he plays for a team other than Mbeumo, which is something for potential new clubs to consider.
But if a club puts money on the table and continues to score Wissa, they can get the bargain of the summer. Sam Blitz
Mika Biereth
Arsenal chose to cash in Biereth when they sold it on the Austrian side Sturm Graz for around £ 4 million last summer. Allegedly they received another £ 2 million thanks to a sales clause when he came to Monaco a few months later.
But would they have been better off?
While the Gunners struggled through the second half of last season without a recognized striker due to injuries, Biereth was busy scoring 13 goals in 16 Ligue 1 -matches for Monaco, after he had 11 in 16 in the Austrian Bundesliga earlier in the campaign.
Since the beginning of January, the total of the 22-year-old of 13 goals has placed him behind only Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappe and Borussia Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy in Europe's top five competitions and level with Ballon d'Or Contender Ousmane Dembele.
Biereth, a clinical finisher with pace and strength, now has a reputation as one of the best young strikers there are.
After he excited in France without the need for a bedding, he also offered encouragement to potential lovers of stronger competitions in search of firepower.
There are some questions about his technical skills and link game. Biereth does not offer a huge amount in general. His completion rate of the Pass is at a low 60 percent. But his scoring record speaks for itself. Could the loss of Arsenal be the win of another club this summer? Nick Wright
Vangelis Pavlidis
Arsenal and Manchester United are connected to Sporting's Target Machine Viktor Gyokeres – but there is still a striker in the Portuguese Primeira League who makes waves: Benfica's Pavlidis.
In its own country, the Greece International has reached double digits for goals in six consecutive seasons and 29 scored 29 in the Eredivisie in 2023/24 to help AZ Alkmaar reach a fourth place, and just 19 for Benfica this period for Benfica.
He has exceeded 20 target involvement every season over the past four years.
In addition to his impressive goal ratio, the report below reveals that the 26-year-old also belongs to the elite in creating opportunities for teammates, regaining property in the last third and, intriguing, when completing long passes of Deep.
The spread diagram below has placed him on the same footing with Gyokees for winning possession high on the field, and only just shy by Real Madrid Speedster Kylian Mbappe for goal involvement per 90 minutes.
However, the Primeira Liga was rated last season as the eighth hardest competition in the world – according to the top five competitions in Europe, the English championship and the Belgian Pro League – according to OPTA Power Ratings,
These figures suggest that Pavlidis was mainly confronted with opponents comparable in quality to relegation-ending the sides or weaker of Europe's elite competitions.
As a result, there are still questions about whether Pavlidis could replicate his productive scoring form in the Premier League – but the figures suggest that he could be a gamble that is worth taking.
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