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?
Andy Cole scored 43 goals for a newly promoted team but no one cares because it was a 42 game season.
He was hardly carrying the team Newcastle finished 3rd, rob lee, Peter Beardsley.
True, that whole entertainers team was great. It’s just a very under rated season that always gets overlooked, not many newly promoted teams score 82 goals. 41 in all comps for Cole with no pens.