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West Ham and Everton target wins Golden Boot as Ronaldo praises 31-goal star
What a week this has been for a striker on the radar of Premier League trio West Ham, Newcastle United and Everton.
One day you are being handed the Golden Boot. The next, none other than the legendary Rona🌄ldo is singing your praises.
For any centre-forward to be praised by the Brazilian icon muಞst feel like a budding young th🍷espian being singled out as one to watch by Sir Ian McKellan himself.
Ronaldo, meanwhile, is one of those whom Yuri Alberto outstripped en rout🍰e to scoring 31 goals across the 2024ܫ Brazilian campaign.
The former Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan superstar netted 23 times for the Timao in the 2009 season. One of th📖e most prolific years enjoyed by any Corinthians player this side of the Millenium.
But West Ham, Newcastle and Everton like Yuri Alberto, TBR understands. Nottingh🤪am Forest and Bജrentford are also among the 23-year-old’s admirers.
So, for Corinthians, the challenge now turns to retaining the s💎ervices of their free-s🌠coring talisman.
West Ham and Newcastle target Yuri Alberto wins Golden Boot
Yuri Alberto secured the Brazilian’s league’s Golden Boot with anothe𒁏r strike on the final day of the season this month💯.
Furthermore, breaking the 30-goal barrier for the first time since Carlos Tevez’s spell at the Neo Quimica Arena, no player sc🃏ored more than him anywhere in the country across all competitions.
And ꧂Ronaldo is delighted to see Yuri Alberto silence his critics, more than doubling his tally 💜from 2023 despite playing fewer matches.
“A striker who, despite much criticism, played very well was Yuri Albe🐷rto,” the World Cup winner says. “He stepped up when Corinthi🌼ans needed him most and helped the team with many goals.”
Corinthians appeared very much in danger of a historic relegation until Yuri Alberto grabbed this underperforming team by the scruff of their neck back in September. He scored in nine successive league mat♏ches between then and the end of the season – scoring 11 goals in total – while almost single-handedly dragging Corinthians to a very respectable seventh place finish.
With the likes of Everton looking to pull clear of the bottom three themselves, Sean Dyche could certainly do with a centre-🤪forward like Yuri Alberto at his disposal🅷.
“It was a very special moment [to win the Golden Boot],” Alberto ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsmiles, via . “Winning this award makes the season even more special.
“It was a season of maturing and learning. But thank God, with the support of my family and God, I was able to recover and finish as the top scorer in the Brazilian Championshi꧋p.”
Brazil international Yuri Alberto admits Premier League ‘dream’
Reports have indicated that Corin🐟thians value their st🍒ar man at around £17 million.
And while president Augusto Melo insists Yuri Alberto is going nowhere 🍒🍃in the January transfer window, the player himself did admit that a move to the Premier League is his ‘dream’.
Yuri Albert🏅o appears torn about joining W✤est Ham, Newcastle or another of his suitors, however. Such is his connection to Corinthians, he must decide whether to listen to his heart or his head.
Alberto rated his chances of a winter exit as ’50/50′ in an🌠 interview last week.
TBR understands that Alberto is not the only striker on The Hammers’ wishlist, meanwhile. West Ham like Brighton frontman Evan Ferguson too, while former Bayer Leverkusen dire🦂ctor Tim Steidten could use his Bundesliga connections to lure Mainz’s Jonathan Burkhardt to the London Stadium.