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?
Wayne Rooney almost dragged United to a title and UCL final in 09/10 and might have pulled it off if he didn’t do his ankle against Bayern in the UCL QF. He scored 34 goals in 44 games, including 26 in the PL and 5 in just 7 UCL appearances. He was so good that Drogba had by far his best ever season for Chelsea and Rooney still was the overwhelming winner of the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, the FWA POTY and the PL POTY.
This was a United team that lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez and replaced them with Antonio Valencia, Michael Owen, Gabriel Obertan, Mirame Birame Diouf and fucking BEBE. Ferdinand was out injured for most of the season, Hargreaves missed the entire season and Vidic missed 14 league games. He nearly won a title with a team where Darren fucking Gibson played 15 league games. Just let that sink in.