Have you got any examples? The stats don't back that up at all.
These are all the players who have scored 20+ over the last 5 seasons. Pretty much all of them have scored a lot of goals over a number of seasons in the Championship, or have ended up relatively solid strikers for bottom-half Prem teams.
Year | Player | Season Goals |
20/21 | Toney | 33 |
20/21 | Armstrong | 28 |
20/21 | Pukki | 26 |
20/21 | Moore | 20 |
19/20 | Mitrovic | 26 |
19/20 | Watkins | 26 |
19/20 | Grabban | 20 |
18/19 | Pukki | 29 |
18/19 | Abraham | 26 |
18/19 | Maupay | 25 |
18/19 | Gayle | 24 |
18/19 | Sharp | 23 |
18/19 | McBurnie | 23 |
18/19 | Adams | 22 |
18/19 | Bowen | 22 |
18/19 | Rodriguez | 22 |
17/18 | Vydra | 21 |
17/18 | Grabban | 20 |
16/17 | Wood | 27 |
16/17 | Abraham | 24 |
16/17 | Gayle | 23 |
16/17 | Murray | 23 |
16/17 | Kermogant | 20 |
15/16 | Gray | 25 |
15/16 | Hernandez | 21 |
15/16 | McCormack | 21 |