With the 2023/2024 season a distant memory, this is the perfect time to examine some of the stats around the best performing players to give us an insight around who to pick next time around. Below I’ve examined the top 10 highest point scoring strikers.
1. Haaland (Man City) – 385 points
2. Salah (Liverpool) – 330 points
3. Watkins (Villa) – 315 points
4. Nunez (Liverpool) – 284 points
5. Alvarez (Man City) – 280 points
6. Isak (Newcastle) – 267 points
7. Pedro (Brighton) – 255 points
8. Son (Spurs) – 251 points
9. Gakpo (Liverpool) – 248 points
10. Jackson (Chelsea) – 247 points
As always, this list is dominated by players from the top clubs. However, there are a few interesting takeaways from the top 10. Haaland was the top scoring striker again but didn’t reach the heights of last year. There looks like overall more points scored compared to last season as well. If most people go for Haaland and Salah, the third striker spot could be what makes the difference this season with quite a few players to potentially choose from.
Rashford was significantly cheaper than Salah and Kane but outscored them both. Toney, Watkins and Wilson didn’t have European football but still made the top 10, however, they were still over 100 points behind Salah. On that note, the gap between Salah and Toney does make me question whether it’s vital to go for the top strikers who are going to get close to 300 points. I’d be very surprised if the top three next season aren’t Haaland, Kane and Salah but it’s going to be difficult again to accommodate all three of them in one team.
DTT, do you think Mane and Sterling need to be classified as strikers as Sky Sports game did last season? It would prevent teams from looking similar.
I’d personally say they are strikers and it would mix things up a lot so I’d be fully behind that move
Anyone know much about Mbeumo of Brentford? Midfielder with a lot of goals and assists if he can carry over that kind of form to the prem he could be a great enabler at only 1.5m?
I must admit I’ve never heard of him but I don’t tend to look at any players outside of the top 6-7 teams.