With the transfer window having shut and teams settled until at least January now, new arrivals on these shores know the task at hand and who will be their supporting cast. That particularly feels relevant for the strikers coming to the Premier League this season given their obvious importance to their respective teams in what looks like a crazy campaign when it comes to defending.

Indeed, we’ve seen Liverpool concede 7 goals in one game, Manchester United let in 6 against Tottenham and Manchester City succumb to 5 goals at home. As football heads into uncharted territory in a post-coronavirus-world, it seems debuting marksmen will get plenty of chances.

The likes of Timo Werner and Edinson Cavani certainly have proven themselves to be amongst the most lethal finishers on the continent during previous exploits and, considering their pedigree, will surely fancy their chances to make a mark on their maiden voyages into English football.

With that said, it feels pertinent to look at those players who made the biggest impact in terms of goal contributions upon moving to the Premier League. Here, GiveMeSport round up the top ten..

10) Yakubu - Portsmouth (16 goals, 1 assist)

Portsmouth's Yakubu

'Feed the Yak' and he will score was a chant to have rung around a number of grounds in the mid-2000s as Yakubu proved a deadly goalscorer at Premier League level but his first year - during his days with Portsmouth - was the major success story. 

Brought to Fratton Park by Harry Redknapp when his status as a 'wheeler-dealer' was probably at its highest, the Nigerian international plundered sixteen goals and recorded one assist as Pompey made their mark in the top tier again. 

9) Benni McCarthy - Blackburn Rovers (18 goals, 1 assist)

Blackburn's Benni McCarthy

No stranger to the English football audience after his two goals against Manchester United in the Champions League sent a young Jose Mourinho racing down the pitch at Old Trafford in 2004, Benni McCarthy's move to Blackburn two years later proved his exploits at the Theatre of Dreams were no fluke. 

Eighteen goals and one assist in the Premier League saw Rovers replace the departed Craig Bellamy with relative ease and McCarthy was only beaten to the Golden Boot by a certain Didier Drogba. 

8) Jurgen Klinsmann/Michu - Tottenham Hotspur/Swansea (20 goals, 1 assist/18 goals, 3 assists) 

Michu/Klinsmann

Two very different arrivals to these shores and separated by almost two decades, Jurgen Klinsmann and Michu both proved equally as unplayable in the Premier League. 

Klinsmann, a World Cup winner and a player dealt an unfair hand by the press at the time due to his exploits with the German national team against England, was an established star of the game. Still, twenty goals and one assist during his first spell in North London made him a hero and had plenty of people eating their words after accusations of diving and the like. 

Michu, meanwhile, was a relative unknown when Swansea brought him from Rayo Vallecano in 2012 as a replacement for Gylfi Sigurdsson. Perhaps that's what made the story so interesting as this lanky-Spanish No.9 ripped QPR apart on his debut - scoring twice in a 5-0 demolition to get the Swans' life in the Premier League off to a flyer - finishing with a total of eighteen goals and three assists. 

Oh to have seen the face of a young Erling Haaland watching during that glorious campaign, who cites Michu as one of his favourite players. 

7) Diego Costa - Chelsea (20 goals, 3 assists)

Diego Costa Chelsea

Diego Costa's first season at Chelsea after leaving newly-crowned Spanish champions Atletico Madrid in 2014 was hugely successful. Desperate for a striker in order to give his 'little horse' of a Chelsea side some much-needed power, the Spanish international proved every-inch a Jose Mourinho centre-forward. 

Twenty goals and three assists on his way to the Premier League title gave Chelsea fans a new hero in the mould of Didier Drogba and, by scoring seven before mid-September, set a record for the highest tally ever plundered after four games. 

A force to be reckoned with during his first couple of years in England, it never truly got better for him after. 

6) Ruud van Nistelrooy - Manchester United (23 goals, 1 assist) 

Manchester United's RVN

Arguably the only striker who could have held a candle to Thierry Henry in the early-2000s, the fact Ruud van Nistelrooy made an instant impact at Manchester United is nothing short of remarkable. Indeed, prior to his move, the Dutchman suffered a major injury with PSV which meant his switch was initially delayed a year. 

By the summer of 2001, a fully recovered van Nistelrooy was ready to wreak havoc in the Premier League. Brought in as club legends Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke were beginning to be phased out, one of the most clinical finishers this country has ever seen scored 23 goals and laid on an assist in what has to go down as one of the best ever debut seasons. 

5) Roque Santa Cruz - Blackburn Rovers (19 goals, 7 assists) 

Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz

Blackburn certainly continued their trend of capturing great strikers hitting form by tempting Roque Santa Cruz away from Bayern Munich in 2007. A talented but under-used forward in Bavaria, the Paraguayan finished behind only Cristiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres and Emmanuel Adebayor in the goalscoring charts as his impressive tally nineteen goals and seven assists took Rovers up to seventh in the league. 

Largely remembered as one of Manchester City's early ill-fated experiments, Santa Cruz's first season in England should see him given far more respect. 

4) Fernando Torres - Liverpool (24 goals, 4 assists) 

Fernando Torres at Liverpool

Fernando Torres was far from an unknown when he joined Liverpool in 2007 but, until recently, no foreign import has surprised Premier League defences with such a mix of pace, power and goalscoring touch upon arrival. 

In his first season alone, Torres became the first player to score 20 goals for the Reds in a league campaign since Robbie Fowler, the first player to score a hat-trick in consecutive home games since 1946 and the first player to score in eight home games on the trot since Roger Hunt in the 1960s. 

While trophies evaded him, the Spaniard's first season in the Premier League broke records and gave the Kop a new hero to rival Cristiano Ronaldo at bitter rivals Manchester United. 

3) Kevin Phillips - Sunderland (30 goals)

Kevin Phillips at Sunderland

There may well have been more celebrated strikers but Kevin Phillips remains the last Englishman to win the European Golden Boot. The 'little' to Niall Quinn's 'large' in a good old-fashioned strike partnership, Phillips enjoyed one of the greatest ever debut campaigns amongst the English elite by scoring 30 times for the Black Cats. 

Taking his stunning form from the Second Division into what was then the Premiership, Phillips proved a menace from pretty much every team in the division, with big goals coming against the likes of Chelsea, Leeds, Aston Villa and bitter rivals Newcastle United. 

A pure striker in every sense, winning such awards was an outstanding achievement. 

2) Sergio Aguero - Manchester City (23 goals, 10 assists)

Sergio Aguero 2011 Manchester City

Sergio Aguero's most famous moment in a Manchester City shirt may have come at the very end of his debut season in the Premier League but, even early on, there were signs of a world-class striker arriving to these isles. 

One of the best debuts of all-time saw the Argentine score twice and set-up another against Swansea with a hat-trick against Wigan following not long after. Impressively, he was actually on the bench from the start and his second goal was the kind of 30-yard stunner we've since become accustomed to.

A constant thorn in Manchester United's side over the course of his career in England, Aguero scored in his first Manchester derby and proved prolific against pretty much everyone in the league.

QPR especially... 

1) Mo Salah - Liverpool (32 goals, 11 assists)

Mo Salah Liverpool

The greatest ever debut season in Premier League football. Yes, Mo Salah had played at Chelsea but was never a first-team fixture at Stamford Bridge and rarely got a look-in, so to suggest one can draw any conclusions from that would be somewhat far-fetched. After all, what about his time in SW6 told us he would go on to reach these heights? 

Thirty-two goals set a new record in a 38-game Premier League season as Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool project began to take shape, with Salah spearheading one of the most deadly attacking trios in modern European history during its embryonic stages. Neither a traditional winger nor a centre-forward, Salah made history during his first full season in England, scoring every type of goal imaginable and even won the Puskas Award for his solo effort against Everton. 

More silverware would soon arrive but, from an individual perspective, there's simply no beating 2017/18 for Mo Salah.