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?
Yeah, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen Le Tissier called a midfielder. He wasn’t. If Le Tissier was a midfielder, so were players like Beardsley, Cantona, Bergkamp, Zola, Sheringham, and Di Canio to name a few. That support striker role is rare these days because not many teams play with 2 forwards.