Burnley Eyeing £15m Ace To Finally Replace Wood

Burnley secured the Championship title in model within the 2022/23 marketing campaign as they racked up 101 factors to seal their promotion to the Premier League.

Vincent Kompany’s aspect romped their strategy to glory and not using a standout quantity 9 scoring nearly all of their targets as Jay Rodriguez (ten) and Ashley Barnes (seven) didn’t handle greater than ten strikes within the division.

For the reason that begin of the 2019/20 marketing campaign, Chris Wooden is the one Burnley striker to attain greater than ten league targets in a season. He plundered 14 in 19/20 and 12 in 20/21 earlier than shifting on to Newcastle in January 2022.

The Clarets are out there for a brand new centre-forward to bolster their squad this summer season and have been linked with curiosity in Union Berlin attacker Sheraldo Becker, who might lastly exchange the New Zealand worldwide at Turf Moor.

Fellow Premier League sides Fulham and West Ham are additionally reportedly eager on the ahead and the Bundesliga membership have valued him at £15m heading into the summer season.

How has Sheraldo Becker carried out this season?

The 28-year-old marksman has been in deadly kind within the German top-flight for Union and has confirmed that he has the standard to hit double figures for targets in a significant European league.

Becker has discovered the again of the web 11 occasions in 33 outings within the division and averaged a powerful Sofascore score of seven.13 – a rating that may place him fifth within the Burnley squad primarily based on their Championship rankings from 22/23.

The Suriname worldwide has scored extra targets in a significant European league than any Burnley striker was in a position to produce within the second tier of soccer in England, which means that the ace would supply Kompany with an enormous goalscoring increase within the quantity 9 place.

Within the Bundesliga, the previous Ajax dynamo scored 11 targets from simply 6.3 xG and which means the Union star considerably outperformed the extent of probabilities he was being supplied with, which signifies that he’s a superb finisher who doesn’t waste many alternatives in entrance of purpose.

To that time, Becker, who was dubbed “clinical” by journalist Josh Bunting, has solely missed two ‘massive probabilities’ within the high tier of German soccer and that is fewer than Rodriguez (five) and Barnes (eight) – who’s leaving on a free switch – spurned within the Championship this season.

This means that the Dutch-born machine, who has additionally assisted seven targets this season, would are available in as a giant improve on the strikers Burnley had obtainable to them within the present marketing campaign.

Becker might be the primary Clarets striker since Wooden to attain greater than ten league targets in a season if he can carry his kind within the Bundesliga over to the Premier League and Kompany might, subsequently, lastly exchange the New Zealand titan by swooping to signal the Union poacher.