Michy Batshuayi is a January target for Newcastle United, according to reports in The Mag.
Batshuayi is another player off the incredible Belgian conveyor belt, and despite only being 22-years-old, he has already scored 60 career goals and made 158 appearances.
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He started his career with Standard Liège in the Belgian Pro League, for whom he made 71 appearances and scored 31 goals.
Because of those goalscoring records, Marseille made a bid for him in the summer of 2014 and snapped up the player for a relatively cheap £4.20m, and largely used him as a bench player last season.
It is during the 2015/2016 campaign, however, that he has come to the fore and both player and club have been rewarded with goals – as he has scored six and assisted two in nine starts this season.
Batshuayi is a strong striker, who has quick feet for a big man, and is able to score a range of goals from a variety of distances. Click through the pages as Newcastle Toons bring you his top five strikes.