Adrián Dalmau: The Predator From Palma.
Adrian Dalmau started his career at Real Madrid, coming through their youth setup before moving to Rayo Vallecano, prior to starting the kind of career game of follow the bouncing ball from which a lot of players do not come back.
He cycled through Zamoro, Racing Ferrol, Espanyol, Numancia and Mallorca before winding up at Villarreal, where he played mainly for their B team.
And yet … throughout those restless, ever moving, years he showed that he had something. He scored goals, and it was a matter of time before a club gave him a permanent berth in the first team squad and he showed what he could actually do on the big stage.
Enter Dutch club Heracles Almelo, who snatched him from his native Spain and made him the fulcrum of their attacking side last season, a side which finished 7th in the Eredivisie in the last campaign, in no small part as a result of his activities in front of goal.
He would cost more than some of the guys on this list, but a season honing his craft at a good level has turned him into the kind of footballer who might be well worth the investment on.
He has spent too long bouncing around; at 25 he would be a perfect player to offer a long term project to.
At Celtic he could continue to grow … and we’d get a top footballer.