Most Valuable Left Winger, Right Winger, And Striker This Season

Left Winger Eden Hazard (Chelsea) 

Signed for: £35.3m in 2012

Current Market Value: £108m

When Eden Hazard signed for Chelsea, they had just won the Champions League. With a number of clubs chasing his signature, Hazard took his time to make a decision and eventually settled on the European champions.

It hasn’t been plain sailing since, though. Although he has experienced the highs of winning the Premier League twice, he has also suffered the lows of finishing 10th as defending champions and missing out on qualifying for the Champions League.

However, the Belgian forward remains Chelsea’s biggest star and has forever been linked with a move to Real Madrid. The winner of the Player of the Year and even Young Player of the Year awards, he is closing in on 100 goals for the Blues and he could even cross the landmark this season.

Right Winger- Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)

Signed for: £34m in 2017

Current Market Value: £135m

Yet another player who did not fit into Mourinho’s plans at Chelsea was Mohamed Salah. The Egyptian was rarely given a start and the Portuguese manager had no use for him in a squad filled with talent.

Salah moved to the Italian Serie A where he slowly made a name for himself at AS Roma and that is when Liverpool decided to bring him back to England. Critics predicted that he wouldn’t succeed but he shut them up for good by the end of the season.

Salah had the best season of his career, winning the Premier League Golden Boot with a record-breaking 32 goals in a season. He scored 44 goals in all as he led the Reds to the Champions League final.

A lot more is expected of the Egyptian this season and a league title will be their goal after the club invested heavily in the transfer market.

Striker- Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur)

Signed for: N/A (Academy product)

Current Market Value: £135m

They called him a ‘One Season Wonder’ when he scored 21 league goals in 2014/15. He has scored 25, 29, and 30 goals in every campaign since.

The four-time one season wonder scored 41 goals in 2017/18 in all competitions – his best return ever. And he now poses a veritable threat to Alan Shearer’s seemingly unbreakable record of 260 Premier League goals. The 25-year-old is currently on 109.

Spurs did not spend a penny on incoming transfers this summer – the only club to not sign a player in 2018. But their biggest achievement was retaining Kane who recently signed a six-year contract with many clubs circling.

The two-time Golden Boot winner will be looking to get back his crown from Salah this season. And he has already made a good start after finally scoring a goal in August (a period when he has struggled to find the back of the net in previous campaigns).

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