How many goals has kuyt scored this season

Will they be the next Robin van Persie or Ruud van Nistelrooy? Or are they being sold false goods? Think Ricky van Wolfswinkel. A star in Holland with Utrecht and then in Portugal with Sporting but the scorer of precisely one goal in England during a full season with Norwich. A proven goalscorer and, those who had seen him in action, the very antithesis of a goal hanger.

Yes, Kuyt ran around a lot. He worked for the team. He put in a shift. Ironically, that was part of the reason why his career at Liverpool will be remembered as that of honest pro rather than superstar. Kuyt, with those solid legs and neat mop of blonde hair, made his debut in a home win over West Ham on August 26, , coming on as a substitute to replace Peter Crouch.

Crouch brought something different to the mix and Craig Bellamy was a classy pest with a goal or two in him, while Robbie Fowler had come back for a second stint but was more nostalgia act than genuine first-teamer so there was a goalscoring void to be filled. Was Kuyt the man? This, of course, was the Rafa Benitez era at Anfield. His tactical wizardry had guided a genuinely mixed bag of a Liverpool team to Champions League glory in , but now there was the Holy Grail of trying to win the Premier League.

Europa League. Europa Conference League. World Cup. European Championship. Information about Dirk Kuyt Complete name. Source: Wikipedia. Follow us. Log in. Dirk Kuyt. Height: 1,84 m Position: Right Winger. Getty Images. Last position:. Manager club: Feyenoord U Stats of Dirk Kuyt This page contains information about a player's detailed stats.

Career stats Compact. Positions played 18 31 38 77 Positions played 18 LW. LW He turned down the offer of an apprenticeship as a fisherman as while at sea he would miss most of the midweek training sessions. He soon made a name for himself in footballing circles, and not just because of his remarkably blond hair. He was on an unlikely road to stardom. But, by the time boys reach 14 or 15, the good ones go off to the academies of clubs like Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven and Ajax.

At that stage, though, nobody was showing an interest in me. Not at 15 or 16 either. By then I thought that, even if did eventually make it into the professional ranks, I was never going to play for one of the bigger clubs. I just had one dream. To play in the first team for my amateur club. In his final match for Utrecht, the Dutch Cup final against Feyenoord, he contributed one goal in a victory. After 67 goals in matches for Utrecht, Bert van Marwijk, later coach of the Dutch national team, bought him to Feyenoord even though the technical director of the club did not believe Kuyt was good enough.

Kuyt repaid van Marwijk's confidence by scoring 83 goals in games. Kuyt made appearances from until of which he played consecutively. Kuyt took his tremendous work ethic and bags of talent to Anfield.

He hit the ground running in England, and played like he had been at Liverpool for ten years. The Dutchman scored 14 goals in his debut season including Liverpool's goal in the Champions League final in Athens. He struggled for consistency in his second season.

The death of his dearly beloved father, who had followed his son's progress with intensity, no doubt contributed to Kuyt's erratic form. The Dutchman went though a dry spell from middle of November to middle February, but created a lot of scoring opportunities for others and contributed to the team's cause. He equalled his League total of 12 goals from his first season and added three in the Champions League, including Liverpool's fourth goal in the second leg of the exciting quarter-final against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

Although similar affection was not always shown towards him by some supporters as Kuyt is not blessed with the best first touch ever seen nor is he the quickest as he runs "like he has a parachute on" as Jamie Carragher noted. Whatever his shortcomings, nobody could criticise the Dutchman's work-rate or enthusiasm.

That "The Energizer Bunny" loved being a Liverpool player has never been beyond question. Kuyt achieved a rare feat, not seen by a Liverpool player since , by scoring in five consecutive League matches towards the end of the season. He also netted a hat-trick against Manchester United at Anfield on 6 March , having failed to score in his previous nine encounters against them since coming into the Premier League. Six years of hard work and honest endeavour finally brought tangible reward for the popular Dutchman when he collected a League Cup winners' medal in after putting his team ahead in extra-time of the final against Cardiff City at Wembley and then scoring from the penalty spot in the shoot-out that followed.

But he did reach 50 League goals for the club when netting the final goal in a win at Wolverhampton in January The late Anfield winner against Manchester United in the FA Cup was another reminder that he could still be a man for the big occasion At the start of June the popular year-old Dutchman signed a three-year contract with Istanbul club Fenerbahce.