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?
It’s scary that it wasn’t even his best season. He scored 59 goals and got 24 assists in 53 games for the 15/16 season. He always gets overlooked in top 5 players, but without a shout has been the 3rd best player in the world in the 2000’s only behind Ronaldo and Messi