Silva signed a contract extension at the Etihad Stadium in November and has five goals and eight assists in 19 top -
flight appearances this season, helping City to establish a dominant 15 - point lead at the top of the Premier League.
Silva signed a contract extension at the Etihad Stadium in November and has five goals and eight assists in 19 top -
flight appearances this season.
Not exact matches
Holt has notched up 70 goals in 129
appearances for the East Anglian side, helping them to back to back promotions and a very satisfactory first
season back in the top
flight.
Despite being limited to just seven
appearances in England's top
flight over the past
season, five of those games finished in a clean sheet for Chelsea.
While this year represents a considerable decline on his first
season in England — where he scored six goals and contributed two assists in 30
appearances, his technical prowess, his dynamism and his prodigious energy have only rarely been seen in the top
flight.
The 19 - year - old midfielder is a highly regarded prospect after a superb first
season in Serie A, during which he made 18
appearances in all competitions and picked up a winners» medal for the club's success in the Italian top
flight.
Olivier Giroud is a solid option, but doesn't seem to cut it at the highest level, while Theo Walcott isn't the focal point that is needed — and the less said about Danny Welbeck's four goals in 25 top
flight appearances last
season the better.
He has made twenty - four
appearances in the Premier League this
season, scoring six goals, and helping the Blues reach the summit of the top
flight, and win the Capital One Cup.
The Nigerian international has been in stunning form for the Hornets so far this
season, netting an impressive 14 goals in 24
appearances in his debut campaign in the top
flight.
The midfielder ended his time in the top
flight with Manchester City last
season, making 38
appearances and netting eight times.
Indeed, the 22 - year - old has impressed again in the French top
flight this
season, scoring nine goals and contributing five assists in 33 Ligue 1
appearances.
He followed that up with 11 goals in 35 top
flight appearances for the Clarets in the 2014/15
season, however he wasn't able to help his side avoid relegation back to the Championship.
The former Montpellier forward has made five Premier League
appearances this
season, all of which have been as substitute, and his two recent goals against Sunderland are his only top -
flight strikes of the campaign.
The 29 - year - old started only seven league games last
season, with his 22
appearances off the bench making him the most used top -
flight substitute.
He went on to make 675
appearances for United, the majority of which were in the top
flight of English football, and was crowned Player of the Year by supporters at the end of 1966/67
season.
Valbuena, 32, made 30 Ligue 1
appearances and scored eight goals as Lyon finished fourth in the French top
flight this
season, while also contributing to their run to the last four of the Europa League.
This would be Šemper's only Champions League
appearance last
season and is currently on loan at NK Lokomotiva in the Croatian top
flight with his parent club having previously rejected an offer from Chelsea.
They were in the Championship when he first signed for them but made seven
appearances for them in the first half of the 2014/15
season in the top
flight.
The Jamaican international has started his maiden
season in the German top -
flight very impressively, scoring four goals and assisting four more in just 12 league
appearances.
In addition, the striker has made just seven Premier League
appearances for the north Londoners before being sent out on loan to the Italians, Inter Milan last
season, where he only scored once in the Serie A top
flight, despite this — Turkish giants Galatasaray are reportedly interested in securing Podolski's signature, as confirmed by Tanman.
Their last
appearance in the top
flight was a record breaking one for the wrong reasons after collecting the lowesr amount of points for a Premier League side in the 2007/08
season.
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He impressed at the Stade Velodrome, making 101
appearances in three
seasons and establishing a reputation as one of the best full - backs in the French top
flight.
The Brazilian picked up where he left off at the Vicente Calderon, though, making 48
appearances for the Spanish side in the 2016 - 17
season as Atleti reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and once again boasted the best defensive record in the Spanish top
flight ahead of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Sanches, 19, struggled to make a regular
appearance in the German top -
flight last
season, and he was restricted to just six starts through the campaign.
In addition to offering inspiration to his colleagues in the final third, the midfielder — who turned 20 in April — scored 10 goals in 33 league
appearances, more than the combined total that Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Paul Scholes and David Beckham managed in their first
seasons of top
flight football.
Ben Arfa has been outstanding since signing for Nice, and has been arguably one of the best players in the French top
flight this
season, scoring an impressive 17 goals in just 32
appearances, as well as making five assists.
He struck 59 goals in 123 top -
flight appearances for the two Bundesliga sides, and last
season was the league's third highest scorer behind Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang and Robert Lewandowski.