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da bet7k： Nine goals in the last nine Premier League games is the kind of record you’d expect to hear when talking about Sergio Aguero or Diego Costa. Not Joshua King.But there’s always a big-name bias in football. Especially when it comes to strikers.Exploding onto the scene amid a blaze of goals and glory is how most teenage strikers are supposed to make their names at top clubs. At Manchester United, the Norwegian striker never got his Marcus Rashford moment. Loans to the Championship at Preston North End and Hull City were sandwiched either side of two appearances for Borussia Monchengladbach in Germany, but no league appearance for the Red Devils was forthcoming.Strikers who don’t get their moment to shine, and who make their way through the leagues looking for a chance are rarely afforded the opportunity to break back into the big time. It just doesn’t happen often – if at all.Giuseppe Rossi couldn’t break through at Manchester United, but managed to forge a top quality career at Villarreal and win caps for Italy. If it weren’t for a horrific injury record, perhaps he would have gone to even better things.Romelu Lukaku and Kevin de Bruyne are perhaps inspirations to all those young players who can’t break into their first team and go elsewhere for game time, but both of these players were mismanaged rather than overlooked, as such. And neither came through the youth ranks at Chelsea: both were bought directly from Belgian clubs where they were members of the first team.The list of players who didn’t make it at top clubs only to be stigmatised and seen as second tier for the rest of their careers is long. And King is a name on the list.Perhaps, then, that’s why the celebration of his goal against Manchester United caused a little bit of consternation last season. After netting against his former club, he celebrated. As though celebrating against a club for whom you made no league appearances was a crime. King isn’t beholden to a past which, these days, looks more like a blot on his copybook than a sign of his footballing pedigree.
And yet there’s always a danger of confusing a player in good form with a good find. King’s goals this season have mostly come in the second half of the season: 11 of his 13 Premier League goals have come since New Year’s Eve. But there are signs that this is more than just a vein of rich form from a player who will fade again very soon. Those 13 goals this season more than double the tally he collected in his debut Premier League campaign last year, when he managed just six. Clearly he is progressing nicely.
It’s not as if his goals have all been meaningless, too. Eight of those goals have come against teams currently in the top 10, whilst only four have come in defeats. Most of his goals have meant something.
At just 25, too, there’s a good chance King becomes a fixture in the Premier League for years to come. The consistency is beginning to come into his game, and although he’s always been more than just a simple goalscorer, he’s starting to show that goals can be incorporated into his game – even as his side have struggled for form since the turn of the year.ÂBournemouth are seven points clear of the drop, and they probably have to thank King for much of that.
All of this means that talk of a move to a more established Premier League club will begin to rise in volume this summer. And if the Norway international is to move within the Premier League, a move to West Ham United could be the perfect one.
The Hammers are in desperate need of a striker this summer, and even though Andy Carroll can usually be relied upon for a goal, he can’t be relied upon to stay fit. King has played in more than 30 Premier League games in both of the last two seasons, making 50 starts in two years as well as some appearances off the bench. In the last four years at West Ham, Carroll has started 51 times in the league.
Clearly, there would be no point in comparing the two. If Slaven Bilic were to go after King in the summer, it wouldn’t be as a Carroll replacement but as a different kind of striker for a different kind of approach – the 2.1 successful dribbles per game this season show that. Only Manuel Lanzini and Michail Antonio can better that in the Hammers’ current squad.
When players like King leave Manchester United they are usually seen to have failed. But with 27 caps for his country, and a growing consistency coming into his Premier League form, King clearly has the top level experience to prove that he can make it even higher up the league.
And nine goals in his last nine games might even show he can rub shoulders with the best the league has to offer.
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