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RANKING the top 10 strikers in the world
Analysis
Striker is the most coveted position in football.
Being able to score goals is the most decisive skill in football, which is why strikers tend to be the players who scoop up most of the accolades and praise in football.
But who is the the best striker in the world? Looking back at last season and the start of this campaign, we've come up with a list that pays heed to overall quality and production, but also has a degree of focus on immediate brilliance.
Current ETV
Hugo Ekitiké
F (C)
Liverpool
Hugo Ekitiké
F (C)
Liverpool
ETV Range
€67.7M - €82.8M
10. Viktor Gyokeres
While Ferran Torres has shown you don't need starter minutes to be tremendously impactful (19 goals in 1,921 minutes last season is literally a goal every 100 minutes, basically a goal a game) and while Hugo Ekitike has started this season in red hot form with 5 goals in 8 games... Viktor Gyokeres did 54 goals in 52 games last season, winning the Gerd Muller Trophy. So it has to be him.
Current ETV
Viktor Gyökeres
F (C)
Arsenal
Viktor Gyökeres
F (C)
Arsenal
ETV Range
€72M - €87.9M
9. Marcus Thuram
Lautaro Martinez is a sublime footballer but the damage he did to his hamstring playing through injury against Barcelona is probably going to haunt him for a while. Luckily for Inter this (and Lautaro's selfless play) has enabled Marcus Thuram to rise up. The Frenchman was dominant last season and has been lethal so far this.
8. Alexander Isak
While shouts of "best in the world!" were comedically over-the-top, Alexander Isak is a sublime centre-forward no doubt about it. The Swede hammered the Premier League and EFL Cup last season, guiding Newcastle to their first trophy in generations and earning a colossal £125 million move to Liverpool where he's already scored once (because of course he has). Isak is an all-around forward with a cutting edge.
Current ETV
Alexander Isak
F (C)
Liverpool
Alexander Isak
F (C)
Liverpool
ETV Range
€105.1M - €175.1M
7. Victor Osimhen
Some strikers have all-around games. Victor Osimhen is not one of those strikers. The Nigerian isn't going to offer you much in the build-up, or as a hold-up target man. What he is going to do, however, is score goals. Lots and lots of goals. 37 in 41 for Galatasaray last season (despite having no pre-season) and 2 in 3 so far this season. A true goal machine.
Current ETV
Victor Osimhen
F (C)
Galatasaray
Victor Osimhen
F (C)
Galatasaray
ETV Range
€69.1M - €84.4M
6. Serhou Guirassy
Most world-class strikers develop young and are obvious prodigies. Not Serhou Guirassy. For most of his career Guirassy was a great target man but a deficient goalscorer. His career-high in a season before Covid was 9 goals.
Since joining Rennes he has taken off though. 13 goals, 12 goals, then 14 on loan at Stuttgart, 30 after a permanent move there and last season 38 in 50 for Borussia Dortmund. Joint-top goalscorer of the Champions League and now he has 5 in 5 for this season. He's a man fully in his peak and worthy of another big move.
Current ETV
Serhou Guirassy
F (C)
Dortmund
Serhou Guirassy
F (C)
Dortmund
ETV Range
€43.5M - €53.2M
5. Julian Alvarez
Unlike all the other strikers here, Julian Alvarez is short. Standing 5'7 there's every reason to think he wouldn't be a great striker, certainly not a great 9. And yet he's both.
The World Cup winner has a tremendous all-around game, running channels, linking with team-mates, and he's also a potent goalscorer. 29 goals for the anaemic attack of Atletico Madrid is an awesome achievement. 4 in 6 to start this season too.
Barcelona... go save him!
Current ETV
Julián Alvarez
F (C)
Atlético Madrid
Julián Alvarez
F (C)
Atlético Madrid
ETV Range
€86.4M - €105.6M
4. Robert Lewandowski
Last season Robert Lewandowski despite being 36 years-old scored an utterly ridiculous 42 goals as Barcelona won La Liga and the Copa del Rey. Had he been fully fit for the Champions League semi-final against Inter there's a high chance Barcelona would have won the Champions League too.
Based off just last season, Lewandowski would be top of this list. But turning 37 has quite notably slowed him down and between injury and middling performance, Lewandowski hasn't played all that much this season. Still scored twice, mind. A true all-timer, but at his age with an expiring contract this is very much the last dance for him.
Current ETV
Robert Lewandowski
F (C)
Barcelona
Robert Lewandowski
F (C)
Barcelona
ETV Range
€8.5M - €11.5M
3. Harry Kane
Harry Kane scores goals. That's what he does. 280 in 435 for a frankly pathetic Spurs team (record). 74 in 109 for England (record). He joined Bayern Munich and has since scored 98 times in just 103 games (will be record for fastest to a century if he bags a brace on Bremen). He's devastatingly good and had he joined a proper football team earlier in his career and spent his prime contestin major trophies (sorry Spurs fans but you know this is true) he'd be rightly considered an all-time great.
Current ETV
Harry Kane
F (C)
Bayern
Harry Kane
F (C)
Bayern
ETV Range
€76.8M - €93.9M
2. Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland had what has been unanimously agreed to be the worst season (relative to expectation) in his career last season. He scored 34 goals.
Nothing more need be said.
Oh ok. 20 in 50 for Molde. 29 in 27 for Salzburg. 86 in 89 for Dortmund. 131 in 152 for Man City. 48 in 45 for Norway.
Current ETV
Erling Haaland
F (C)
Man City
Erling Haaland
F (C)
Man City
ETV Range
€168.1M - €205.4M
1. Kylian Mbappe
As this list is "strikers" and not "no. 9's" the top spot is going to belong to last of a dying breed. The second striker. Whether he will not or genuinely cannot play as a no. 9, Mbappe instead operates in this bizarre role where he is neither winger nor no. 9, but all-encompassing goalscoring genius.
It's easy to laugh at Mbappe for Real Madrid's failures last season, for getting crushed four consecutive times by Barcelona, getting outshone by 17 year-old Lamine Yamal, for his old club PSG winning the Champions League and Ousmane Dembele winning the Ballon d'Or... but he's awesome.
44 goals in 59 games for Real Madrid last season and a frankly preposterous 9 in 7 games to start this season. What's more he looks terrifyingly sharp; explosive cuts, sizzling step-overs and overpowering amounts of pace... Kylian Mbappe is coming for blood, and is unquestionably the best striker in the world.
Current ETV
Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappé
F (C)
Real Madrid
ETV Range
€137.1M - €167.5M
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