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When Jermaine Defoe left the AFC Bournemouth on loan to join Rangers in the summer transfer window, the Premier League lost its highest active goal scorer. The English international who has been part of five Premier League clubs during his time in the English League has scored an impressive 162 goals in 496 appearances.
The former England International is the seventh on the all-time goal scorer list, topped by Alan Shearer and spent almost all his career in the English first division.
Here is the list of 5 of the active goal scorers in the Premier League.
#5 Olivier Giroud
The highest scoring active super-sub in the Premier League, Olivier Giroud joined the Premier League on the back of a historic Ligue 1 champions medal with Montpellier in 2012. The Frenchman scored 25 goals in his last season with the French club, becoming the Ligue 1 top scorer before agreeing to a reported fee of €9.6 million bid from the Gunners.
The French striker spent five and half season in North London with the Gunners before leaving for West London to join Chelsea in the 2017-18 January transfer window.
The World Cup winner made 180 appearances for the Gunners in the league and scored 73 times, averaging 0.41 goals per match. The last few seasons with the North London side saw the Frenchman being brought off the bench to score important goals as Giroud scored an impressive 20 goals coming off the bench. The striker has so far made 31 appearances for the Blues and but has scored just four times in the league.
Le buteur de charme or the charm striker as he was once called by the Le Parisian has made a total 211 Premier League appearances and has a tally of 77 goals to his name. The Frenchman is 49th in the list of all-time top scorers in the Premier League and is just 7 short of Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo.
#4 Eden Hazard
One of the best player in the world at the moment, Eden Hazard is an absolute treat to watch. The Belgian joined the League in 2012, joining the Blues for a reported fee of €33 million after spending eight seasons with French side Lille, making his professional debut for the Les Dogues at the age of 16.
The Belgian talisman has been around the Premier League now for six and half season and is one of the best players in the league, if not the best player. The winger has made 329 appearances for the Blues scoring 102 goals, 10th in the list of all-time goal scorers for Chelsea, and has won two Premier League titles, a FA Cup, a League Cup and a Europa League with the Blues.
Hazard has so far made 230 appearances in the Premier League and has got 79 goals to his name, making him the 47th in the list all-time top scoring players in the league as well as the highest scoring active Chelsea player.
#3 Romelu Lukaku
The highest scoring Belgian in the history of the Premier League, Romelu Lukaku is the youngest player outside England and the fifth youngest ever to reach 100 goals in the league.
The Belgian joined the Premier League as a teenager from RSC Anderlecht for a reported fee of €12 million rising to €20 million in add-ons. The striker though failed to light up the world with the Blues as the young Lukaku was not given proper game time and spend most of his days with Chelsea out on loan.
It was during his loan spells that the Belgian showed his impressive goal-scoring abilities as Lukaku scored 17 goals for West Brom in his first loan spell and 15 for Everton in his second spell before making his move to the Merseyside permanent.
It was during his time at the Merseyside that the Belgian found his consistency as the big striker hammered in more than 10 league goals each season, joining Manchester United at the end of 2016-17 season.
The big Belgian has been in the Premier League for more than seven and a half years with the striker making a total of 240 appearances and scoring an impressive 109 goals in the timeline.
Lukaku is the 22nd on the list of Premier League all-time goal scorers, scoring the same number of goals as Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs.
#2 Harry Kane
The Golden Boy of English football and the highest scoring active English striker playing in the Premier League at the moment, Harry Kane is by far the best forward to play in the Premier League since the arrival of Wayne Rooney as a 16-year old for Everton.
A product of the Tottenham Hotspur youth system, Kane had to wait a while, spending three seasons on loan at different clubs, before making an impact in the Premier League. The striker made his league debut against Newcastle United in the 2012-13 season but had to wait till the next season to make his second league appearance under Spurs.
Kane broke through into the Spurs team in the 2013-14 season and since then the England captain has been on fire for the Lilywhites.
The Spurs and England captain holds the record for the most Premier League player of the month trophy and is the fourth highest goal scorer in Tottenham Hotspur history and has twice won the Premier League Golden Boot.
Kane also holds the best strike rate in the Premier League history and is on course to beat the goal scoring set by Alan Shearer if the striker keeps up his strike rate.
At present, he has made 175 appearances in the league and has an impressive 122 goals for Tottenham alone in the league.
The 25-year old is 17th on the list of all-time leading goal scorers and is the 10th highest English goal scorer in the Premier League.
#1 Sergio Aguero
The highest active goal scorer in the Premier League and one of the best non-English imports and the best non-European to grace the Premier League, Sergio Aguero is an absolute Premier League legend. The Argentine's injury-time goal against QPR in Manchester City 2011-12 title-winning season is imbibed in the Premier League folklore.
The Argentine started his professional footballing career at the age of 15 with Independiente in 2003 before moving to Europe with Atletico Madrid and finally joining Manchester City in 2011, almost eight years since his debut.
Kun Aguero as he is known set the ground running ever since his arrival, The Argentine has scored 10+ league goals in the eight seasons (including the present one) in the league but unfortunately has never won the Premier League golden boot.
The 30-year old has made 225 appearances in the Premier League and has scored 153 goals, making him the eighth highest goal scorer in the league. Aguero is just 22 goals behind Thiery Henry, the highest non-English player on the list.
