Davor Suker is considered to be the greatest Croatian player in history having scored 45 goals in 69 appearances for his national team and producing the goods at each of the sides that he played for at club level. That is until he moved to West Ham. In his first season in English football, Suker netted eight times in 22 league appearances for Arsenal - a respectable record given he often had to play fourth fiddle to Thierry Henry, Nwankwo Kanu and Dennis Bergkamp - but he made the decision to seek regular first-team action with fellow London club West Ham. It backfired on Suker, now 32 years of age, and he made less league starts with the Hammers than he did at Highbury. It was a fall from grace for one of European football's legendary strikers, who scored just three goals in 13 games at Upton Park, and he would end his career making sporadic appearances in Germany for 1860 Munich.
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