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?
Carlos Tevez at West Ham single handedly kept the Hammers up in that season where he scored huge goals including the winner at Old Trafford to give them a 0-1 away win
He carried City on his back so often in the first year or 2 - one of the very best I’ve seen