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The Premier League's best pound-for-pound striker signing REVEALED! Top 10 cost-per-goal

Next picture A goal against Chelsea has taken Michu up to 16 strikes in all competitions this season, with many hailing the Spaniard as the most savvy summer signing of 2012/13, but who really is the best pound-for-pound striker signed by a Premier League club last summer? Not Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor, who, with three goals, has cost around £1,666,666 per strike. Click the arrows to begin

A goal against Chelsea has taken Michu up to 16 strikes in all competitions this season, with many hailing the Spaniard as the most savvy summer signing of 2012/13, but who really is the best pound-for-pound striker signed by a Premier League club last summer? Not Tottenham's Emmanuel Adebayor, who, with three goals, has cost around £1,666,666 per strike. Click the arrows to begin

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By talkSPORT magazine | Friday, January 11, 2013

 

Michu's budget brilliance for Swansea has seen him hailed as the "bargain of the season" by Michael Laudrup, but with so many new centre-forwards arriving in the Premier League this season, who really has been the best pound-for-pound striker signing? Taking into account goals in all competitions, and only looking at players who play in a central striker's role, as opposed to attacking wide men, talkSPORT got our calculators out. Starting with Emmanuel Adebayor, who has cost a whopping £1,666,666 per-goal this season, talkSPORT reveal which summer striker signing really has proved the best value for money. Click the arrows to begin....