Sorry Tosun, back on the bench – Everton's five best Premier League strikers

Sorry Tosun, back on the bench – Everton's five best Premier League strikers

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Everton fans have bemoaned the club's current transfers, with former manager Ronald Koeman getting it all wrong in the summer.

However, it hasn't always been that way and since the start of the Premier League, they've been blessed with some of the best strikers the country has ever seen.

The trouble is, they haven't been able to keep hold of them.

Current forward Cenk Tosun, a £20million signing from Besiktas, hasn't set the world alight since he joined in January, but he wasn't exactly helped when current manager Sam Allardyce said he would need time to adapt to the physical nature of the league.

He has shown signs of hitting the sort of Super Lig form that attracted Everton in the first place though, with four goals in 11 Premier League games.

This list is all about tried and tested strikers though and Tosun has got some way to go before he joins this illustrious list.

Click below to find out who sits fifth in our top five list of best Everton strikers:

5. Duncan Ferguson

Big, strong, a prolific goal scorer and capable of scaring the bejesus out of the opposition, his own players and anyone else in the stadium.

Ferguson is a beast who scored 65 goals in 246 games across two stints for Everton before he retired in 2006.

They couldn't get rid of him that easily though and he became true blue royalty when he rejoined as a coach where he's still terrorising the opposition bench.

Click below to find out who sits fourth in our top five list of best Everton strikers:

4. Aiyegbeni Yakubu

Yakubu joined Everton for £15million in 2007 from Middlesbrough and for a time he was one of the deadliest strikers in the Premier League.

It didn't last and he was shipped on loan to Leicester before Everton finally unloaded him for just £1.5million to Blackburn, before Yakubu really slipped.

He ended up at Coventry last year in League Two but only lasted three months before he retired.

Everton fans will remember the prolific international though, who scored 21 goals in 57 games for his country, and 33 in 107 for Everton.

Click below to find out who sits third in our top five list of best Everton strikers:

3. Louis Saha

The France international made his name at Manchester United, who he joined in 2004 for £15.75million, before moving onto Everton for free four years later.

It proved to be a great bit of business for Everton, who might have got Saha past his best, but still a striker who could score at will in the Premier League.

He stayed at Everton for four years too, before joining Tottenham on a free transfer, and scored 34 goals in 115 games. How they'd love to find someone for free who could do that today.

Click below to find out who sits second in our top five list of best Everton strikers:

2. Kevin Campbell 

Best known for his time at Arsenal, Campbell arrived at Everton via Nottingham Forest and Trabzonspor in 1999 for £3million and instantly endeared himself to the fans when he fired in nine goals in eight games to help Everton avoid relegation.

He couldn't keep up that incredible rate of scoring, but he did go on to be a Goodison favourite, scoring 45 goals in 146 games before leaving to join West Brom on a free transfer in 2005.

Click below to find out who sits first in our top five list of best Everton strikers:

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1. Romelu Lukaku

No prizes for guessing who sits at the very top of the pile – Romelu Lukaku, the striker who was so good, Everton still haven't really recovered from him leaving.

Everton never hit the heights that meant they'd have a chance of keeping hold of Lukaku, who enjoyed two stints at the club, first on loan and then in a £32million move from Chelsea.

He was another player that was ruined at Stamford Bridge before setting the world alight at Goodison, scoring 87 in 166 games, before a massive £76million move to Man United where he still plays under Jose Mourinho.

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