For me Matt le Tissier takes the cake, managing to score 25 goals from midfield in the 1993/94 season for a Southampton team that finished 18th. Other strong contenders:

  • Luis Suarez 13/14, honestly maybe the best individual season a player’s ever had in the league. 31 goals and 11 assists in 33 games in a Liverpool team that was largely Europa League level aside from Gerrard and Sturridge.
  • Kevin Phillips 99/00, scoring 30 goals and winning the European Golden Shoe for newly promoted Sunderland.

Who’ve you got?

  • Alexis_Denken@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Paul McGrath. First EPL season he was the best defender in the league, despite having knees so fucked he couldn’t train between games or run in them, and was in constant pain. Villa got second that year I think. Then he played like 4 more seasons. Madman.

  • M-Knight9@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Eden Hazrad, played with a trashy squad and maegers for 7 years and was able to win the PL twice.

    • Joyride0@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes. Some bloody awful crap in that Arsenal side, as the OT thrashing ruthlessly exposed.

  • Jackbees777@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly aubameyang being the sole reason arsenal even finished top half then he went meh and the fans immediately booed him out

    • Joyride0@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think it was his attitude people didn’t like. They’ll forgive a loss of form if you’re clearly trying.

      • Jackbees777@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I get that but it is funny how times works differently with big clubs like it was same as what Utd do one year they will have one player carry and the next he needs to be gone and is not good enough it’s just hard to watch even if it makes sense to a point

  • bigsillygiant@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Gerrard seems the obvious answer liverpool were very mediocre in the the early 00’s he managed to win them an fa cup against West ham and the champions league and they got to the final the next year as well. Liverpool without Gerrard would of been mid table at best

  • Falloffingolfin@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Bit of a leftfield one, maybe, but my team Sheffield Wednesday were pretty much singlehandedly kept in the Prem a couple of years longer than they had any right to be by Des Walker.

    Post the Di Canio/Carbone era, we were truly abysmal and had barely any prem quality players in the squad. I had a season ticket at the time, and the number of points Des singlehandedly saved us was easily in excess of the amount of points we finished above relegation.

    Finally, in 2001, his age caught up with him, and we were deservedly relegated. The rest is history, as they say.