#1 Ricky van Wolfswinkel
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Ricky van Wolfswinkel, who joined Norwich City from Sporting CP for a fee of around £8.5 million before the 2013/14 season, was expected to lead from the front in the Canaries’ fight against relegation but that was not the case.
The Dutchman is yet another on the list of players who thrived in the Eredivisie, but utterly flopped when it came to life in the Premier League. Popularly nicknamed ‘the big bad wolf,’ he was in excellent goal-scoring form in the Eredivisie with Vitesse and Utrecht, scoring 34 goals in 99 games as a youngster.
He eventually moved to Portugal to play for Sporting, where his exploits would eventually earn him a move to English shores.
While he made an immediate impact with a goal on debut against Everton in the league, it all went downhill from there, with the striker failing to score in any of his further 24 appearances in the league that season – despite being given plenty of chances.
Norwich would end up getting relegated at the end of the season and ‘the wolf’ would be loaned out to Ligue 1 with Saint-Etienne.
He has now returned to his homeland and plays for Vitesse, the club that initially handed him his debut.
