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Top 10 Premier League Transfer’s 2012/2013

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Okay, so here is the second part of my top Premier League transfers 2012/2013 so far. If you missed part one where I listed places 10-6 of the top ten, then follow then link below to see them.

http://thetotallyentertainment.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/top-10-premier-league-transfers-20122013.html

5. Eden Hazard

He hasn’t necessarily been the star of the show this season for Chelsea, with Juan Mata being Chelsea’s best player so far this season. Since his arrival from Lille, for a fee of about £35m, he has scored 8 times from his 23 appearances. He was in my opinion the best player in Liege 1 last season and I’m glad someone brought him to the Premier league. He is the second Belgium talent to feature in this top ten and I’m really excited to see this new young array of talent coming out of Belgium. Hazard is still very young and his speed, agility, skill with the ball and the ability to run rings around a defence is why he is so good. His attacking threat has also been needed, along with Mata’s performance step up, due to the underperforming Torres.

4. Roman Lukaku (Loan)

Probably one of the best loan deals I’ve seen in a while. Lukaku arrived from Anderlecht in 2011 for £13m and didn’t feature at all last season for Chelsea. Since West Brom secured the loan of the Belgium striker from Chelsea he has amassed 13 goals so far and been a key feature to the Baggies successful season.  The young nineteen year old will surely fit straight into Chelsea’s squad next season and is part of the Belgium players that Chelsea continue to loan out, including Courtoius (on loan at Athletico Madrid) and Kevin De Bruyne (on loan at Werder Bremen). The young player is one of those rarities that has that burst of pace along with the strength to wade off the oppositions defence and then the ability to put the ball past the goalkeeper. There is a lot of room to grow and I’m sure he could perhaps be lethal in front of goal and a suitable replacement to Didier Drogba for Chelsea.

3. Santi Cazorla

Brought for an undisclosed fee of around £12m from Malaga in the summer, he has been a great addition to Arsenal. Santi Cazorla is one of those players who have that superb vision and the technical ability to accurately pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other. He has been a regular feature in Arsenals midfield and provided 11 goals for the gunners this season.  In my opinion he is one of Spain’s best talents along with Juan Mata, but neither gets a look-in compared to Spain’s compact midfield revolving around players from Barcelona and Real Madrid. He has definitely been pulling the strings for Arsenal and been a great player in the absence of Jack Wilshire. I’m really looking forward to seeing the pairing of those two plying together in the foreseeable future.

2. Michu

Now this was definitely a close call between first and second. Michu has absolutely been bargain of the season arriving for a fee of around £2.5m. I was surprised no one else picked up this player with his great performances for Rayo Vallecano last season. The top Spanish clubs seemed to overlook the Spaniard along with the rest of Europe’s best. More so I’m surprised Swansea was able to get Michu’s services for as little as they did. He has supplied Swansea with 15 goals so far from 28 appearances. He has fit nicely alongside Swansea’s other signing of Pablo Hernandez and with Swansea’s style of play. He is a clinical finisher and that is proved with the number of goals he has got so far. He can win balls in the air and add to the build-up play. But most of all you can tell he is enjoying his football at Swansea and has recently came out and said he 

is giving Swansea his full commitment.

1.       Van Persie

The reason I have chosen Van Persie as number 1 is because of the fact he has the key reason why Man Utd have won the title this season or extremely likely to win the title this year.  After he got top goal scorer last season he was the perfect player to add to Man Utd to retake the title from their rivals grasps. RVP has scored 19 goals so far from 26 appearances and there isn’t too much else to say. He is that clinical striker he was last year but now pared with a striking talent (something that he didn’t have at Arsenal), in Rooney, and with Man City not really making any influential signings that have made an impact over the summer and in January it has nailed down Man Uts’ success this season in my opinion.

Top 10 Premier League Transfer’s 2012/2013

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Here is a list of the Barclays Premier League’s top transfers from the 2012/2013 season. First of all I’d like to mention a few players that didn’t make the top 10.

Moussa Sissoko almost made the cut due to his impressive start to life at Newcastle. The Midfielder signed from Toulouse in January for a fee of around £2m and the French man has scored 3 goals from 7 appearances. His performances have been excellent with his debut and match winning display against Chelsea being his highlight so far. He would of made the top ten but I still don’t feel we have seen enough yet, the top 10 does include a January transfer but I feel that player has impacted the team significantly and feel Sissoko still has more to bring to the table.

Pablo Hernandez is another player that just missed out. He arrived at the start of the season from Valencia for just over £5m to Swansea. He has been a crucial piece to Michael Laudrup’s Swansea side, making 20 appearances and scoring 3 goals. He has been the perfect playmaker for Swansea and fit so perfectly into Swansea’s passing game.

The other player that missed out was Remy and ultimately we won’t find out whether this was one of the top signings until the end of the season. QPR may have perhaps brought them self out of relegation when they purchased Remy for around £10m from Marseille in January.  He has only made 5 appearances so far but scored 3 goals, his goal to game ratio is good but we won’t see how crucial those goals are until the end of QPR’s season.

Now on to the top 10:-

10- Philippe Coutinho

The young Brazilian, aged 20, is a top signing for Liverpool and I think he will only get better as the player grows. He arrived from Inter Milan for a fee believed to be around £10m. The reason I have added Coutinho to the top ten is due to his impact on Liverpool. He has only featured four times for Liverpool, scoring twice, but before January Liverpool lacked that spark of attacking force that would fit nicely in with Suarez. Sterling does have potential for the future but I think he is too young and his lack of experience was proved at certain times in the first half of the season. Coutinho has fit nicely alongside Suarez, as has Sturridge, but his flair has been felt throughout and even Steven Gerrard has spoken out saying that his arrival has injected a creative spark into the side.

9- Dimitar Berbatov

What can you say? When a team buys Berbatov you know you are buying a goal machine. He has proved it in the past at Spurs and was a wasted talent at Man Utd only starting off the bench and not even being included in Utd’s crowded attack force towards the end of his time there. Berbatov arrived at Fulham for a fee around £6m and since his arrival has scored 11 goals in 23 appearances. The striker does lack that pace but he has proved he doesn’t need it with the skill he brings to the table. His quick feet and skill with the ball teamed with this strikers ruthlessness has led to the amount of goals this striker has got for Fulham.

8- Julio Cesar

He has been one of the top goalkeepers of the season and if not for him I think QPR would have been relegated at this point already. The Brazilian arrived from Inter Milan on a Free and his proved why he is one of the world’s best with some of the top draw saves he has made. QPR have lacked a solid defence all season and still failed to reinforce their back four in January, they needed someone better than Samba in my opinion. Cesar has conceded a lot of goals this season but with how poor the defence has been and the amount of saves he has made you can’t fault Cesar. His performances have also seen the Brazilian been called back up to the national team.

7-  Jan Vertonghen

I was impressed by this players performance at Ajax and waiting to see which top teams would move for his signature. Well AVB moved of him in the summer and brought him to Spurs for a fee around £12m (after Spurs had two previous bids rejected after Ajax held out for their asking price of £12m). He is one of these centre backs that could play anywhere at the back because of his solidness at that back but also his willingness to go forward. He is a capable scorer and proved it with his three goals this season. He is a defender that Spurs was missing and with his presence now in the side I feel Spurs have enough talent to secure a Champions League spot for next season.

6- Christian Benteke

He is part of this great array of Belgium talent coming through and I’m sure he will be a part of Belgium’s World Cup squad if they qualify. He arrived from Genk in the summer for about £7m and has been a rock in Villa’s poor season so far. He has supplied  Aston Villa with 13 goals so far and his addition to this new look, young, Aston Villa side has been felt drastically. He wasn’t a player know by many but since his performances he is now being linked with Man City, Arsenal and Inter Milan. He isn’t just a clinical finisher though; his ability to read the game and supply some eye catching build-up play is what adds a new dimension to this striker. I remember the one assist he got this season from a back heel before Christmas and his skill was reinforced alongside his ability to score goals then in my eyes.

Part two and the top 5 here - http://thetotallyentertainment.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/top-10-premier-league-transfers-20122013_29.html  or from the homepage.