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With a lack of striker among the EPL club With Man City bought over some of club key striker. A look at it seem like Liverpool, Arsenal, Blackburn, Portsmouth, Sunderland and Hull are all busy looking around in the transfer market for good striker. Liverpool need someone who can tag with their star striker Torres upfront. Arsenal need a replacement for Adebayor who just left for Man City. Blackburn need replacement for key striker Santa Cruz who left for Man City too. Portsmouth need someone who are able to replace Peter Crouch who joined Spurs.  Sunderland need someone to do better than Cisse which they loan from Marseille last season. Hull need someone who can provide them goal.

Krkic Bojan

A raw gem produced from the Barcelona academy, he was tips to be the next Raul which can lead Spain in the next generation for plenty of years. He got his first Spain cap at the age of 17 and decline the offer to be part of the Euro 08 squad as he believe he still not up to the level yet. At the age of 18, he was already part of Barcelona rotation squad and hold the Spanish La Liga and Champion League title. His capability can see him being first team player in most of the club in the world already. He is a good player which might be able to be loan out by Barcelona to get more experience before returning back to be the club star players alongside with Messi which still have plenty of years ahead of them.

The way i saw him play, i see the image of Torres few year ago where he still in Aletico Madrid. Those confident run and smooth ball control with lethal finishing touch. It would be the best for him to join Liverpool on loan which benefit both party. With a good spanish manager to nurture him and the help of his senior Spanish International to give him tips and guide, he shall evolve to a better player when he return to Barcelona. With Voronin out of form, and Ngog without much matches experience, Liverpool need someone who can play along with Torres, and Bojan shall fit that role.

Mark Viduka

A veteran striker which has 9 season of EPL experience with Leeds, Boro and Newcastle. He is recently being released by Newcastle upon relegation to English League Championship. He has already scored over 200+ goals since the start of his career already. The only con of him shall be the stamina are not as good anymore and has been plague by injury for years. But to be able to acquire him on a free transfer basis, its still seem to be a good deal. He has so far attracted the like of Hull City, Fulham and Portsmouth.

Joining Hull City will be better as he will not hold any burden rather than joining Portsmouth and expected to be Crouch replacement. Joining Fulham might help in their Europa league advanture with his experience. He is not as quick as before but his instinctive toward goals are still going strong though. An estimation of 10-12 goal shall be his target for next year at the age of 34.

Eidur Gudjohnsen

He has win 3 title in Dutch with PSV(Dutch Eredivisie, Dutch Cup, Dutch Super Cup), 3 in EPL with Chelsea(Premier League, Football League Cup, Community Shield) and 4 in La Liga with Barcelona(Spanish Super Cup, Copa del Rey, La Liga and UEFA Champions League). Total of 10 different title in his career has make him a true winner with lots of memories. He currently still part of Barcelona rotation plan which mainly involve in Cup matches. Not really prolific striker with the amount of goal he bought to his club, but still he make a good support striker, and at the age of 30, its price shouldn’t be that high too.

A remain in Barcelona seem to be best plan for himself but i believes Barcelona will be willing to listen to offer if enquiry and bidding came in for him. Another option is leave for West Ham who did enter negotiation with Barcelona about him week ago, and a reunion with his former teammate Zola shall do him good.

Obafemi Martins

An all rounded Striker i would said about him, he can score through far range, and near post, or even with header. I would rate him on par or even better than Chelsea’s Drogba as he is still young at the age of 24 which he still can improve. With Newcastle just relegated, their key striker look highly to seek a move out instead of staying with them to get the club back to EPL. The costs is also not that expensive as an estimate price tag of 10 million pound compare to the like of Adebayor and Tevez which cost 25million pound each.

Rumour has it that Wolfburgs are currently the favourite to sign the Nigeria Striker for a price of 9 million pound, and the striker are keen on the move and will undergo medical checkup within 48 hour. He is a striker of big stages, shouldn’t have waste his time in Newcastle instead. A move to Wolfburgs will suit him as a tough battle lies ahead of him to help the club retain their title and make their maiden appearance in champion league.

Darren Bent

The signing of Peter Crouch to Spurs shall mark the leaving of him, with already quite a number of establish striker in the club already. Robbie Keane, Defoe, Crouch and Pavlychenko will see the out of favour to drop to 5th choice for the lineup. The rumour of him leaving has been around for quite awhile with Blackburn, Sunderland, Aston Villa and Hull City all shown interest about him. Look even more likely to leave as he already been bid farewell by manager Harry Redknapp and been left out of Tottenham pre season tour to China.

I would say he is an overrated player which i didn’t see why he worth the 16.5 million pound which Tottenham signed oveer from Charlton in the first place. So far his performance i would say only worth like 5 million only, as he often missed open chances. So far the favourite has been Sunderland who are near to seal his signature for £12m to form partnership with Jones.

David Trezeguet

1 of the reputable striker who is still available in the transfer market. He has an average of 0.6 goals matches for Juventus which is very consistance during the past 9 season. He has so far attracted quite a few ISA club which include AC Milan who enquiry about this striker. But seem like Juventus are not prepare to offload him to any club in italian at the moment, so a solution will be to move to Premier League.

The speculation of him leaving the club has since started during the scandal which see Juventus relegated to serie B, but still as a Juventus fan, i would see him as a loyal and faithful player who did his best to serve the club so far. He has injured his groin that kept him out for most of the previous season which he only scored a total of just 3 goals. At the age of 31 though, i feel he still got plenty to offer and his partnership with Del Piero are still superby, i would not wants him to leave as next season shall be the best chance for Juventus to challenge for scedutto with great signing of Cannavaro, Melo and Diego and few more signing to come.

He is French born Morocco international who play a key role along with Cavenaghi to score 13 goals each in french league to lead Bordeaux to the first Ligue 1 title in new century and broken off Lyon 7 titles straight. Chamakh has so far been link to Arsenal, Sunderland and Lyon. With the departing of Arsenal’s Adebayor to Man City, Lyon’s Benzema to Real Madrid and Sunderland’s Cisse return back from loan to Marseilles, all 3 club are desperately after decent striker left around in the market.

Sunderland was first in contact with the striker at mid June but Arsenal joined in the chase soon enough, which change Chamakh’s minds that Arsenal shall be a better choice. Now Lyon also express their interests with the striker and wants to enter the race. Sunderland can assure him of first team striker spot which Arsenal can’t provide as they still got Bendner, Van Persie and Eduardo, 3 establish striker fighting for the spot. Lyon style might suit him the best and he is more familiar with the playing style in french league since throughout his career so far, he been playing at France.

Currently Arsenal seem to be the favourite for him to join as he has express his interest in joining Arsenal more than the other two rival. Arsenal’s manager Wenger has been well known to bring out potential of talented youngster and has also been able to revive Henry career from Juventus previously. By joining Arsenal shall bring his skill and technique to another level.

At the age of 23, he is already one of the regular in Spanish squad and was part of the team who help lift the Euro 08 for Spain. He was developed from Valencia youth academy and was loan out to 2 different club at 04/05, 05/06 season to gain experience. When he return back to Valencia, he managed to be part of the rotation squad and managed to get into first team lineup since 07/08 and has since be part of the key players for the club.

Valencia biggest success so far has been 03/04 season whereby Rafael Benitez lead the club to both Spanish La Liga title and Uefa Cup. But since he departed for Liverpool, Valencia performance has been going downhill, and Silva just nice promote up from youth team on the year Benitez left. That why Silva so far only has acheive a spanish king cup winner under his name.

Due to the club financial crisis, lots of the star player in the club has been link to other club. Silva are 1 of them which attract the attention of Real Madrid, Liverpool and Manchester United. Real Madrid seem Silva as backup choice if they unable to signed Ribery from Munich while Liverpool are keen of signing the playmaker as 1 of the key player, Man Utd then join in the chase planning to hijack him away from Liverpool.

All 3 club seem good for him to join rather than staying with Valencia. By joining Real Madrid, i believes he can be part of the changeover squad who shines for Madrid along with the like of Kaka, C.Ronaldo and Raul and standing good chance of winning silverware with only problem might be he only part of the rotation squad.

By joining Liverpool, he can make immidiate impact with the spaniard Reina, Arbeloa, Alonso and Torres in the team who he work with in international level. He also has the chance to work with the spanish manager who he missed out in Valencia. But will he be comfortable with the EPL playing style?

 With the departure of C.Ronaldo and ageing Gigg retiring soon, Man Utd are really in need of a winger who can perform the trick. Silva is definitely a better choice than Nani or Valencia in the lineup with the only problem might be is language.