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Transfer Window: Peter Beagrie looks at the strikers attracting attention in the Football League

Could your club's star striker be heading for a January exit?

Callum Wilson, Bournemouth, Sky Bet Championship Player of the Month, October 2014

The transfer window can be the decisive moment in a season where teams can gain, continue or lose momentum, depending on their sales and acquisitions.

The majority of teams will be hoping to add to their squads, particularly in the striker department, or at least hold on to their prized assets.

With less than a week to go in the January window, Sky Sports’' Peter Beagrie looks at the goal-getters making headlines and attracting interest from across the Football League.

Callum Wilson – Bournemouth

Callum Wilson, Bournemouth, Sky Bet Championship Player of the Month, October 2014

Bournemouth will know there are admiring glances from Premier League sides towards their young and improving striker who has made the transition into the Championship with consummate ease.

Deceptively strong, his work-rate is immense and he has the power, pace and also the individuality to eventually develop into a top-flight player. I feel Callum’s immediate future is best served under the watchful eye and tutelage of his current boss Eddie Howe who has brought, and is still trying to buy, young and hungry talented players into the environment he has created.

Freedom of expression has helped Wilson and Matt Ritchie progress, improve and catch the eye this season. The big question, though, is still unanswered; can little old Bournemouth reach the promised land of the Premier League?

Rudy Gestede – Blackburn Rovers

Rudy Gestede of Blackburn celebrates after scoring against Blackburn

Gary Bowyer will be hoping to keep Rudy at Ewood Park until the end of the season, but will understand if a substantial bid comes in he may have to sell. He is one of the strikers more likely to move in view of the big, but not insurmountable, 11-point gap between Rovers and the final play-off place.

The giant striker has hit 25 goals in little over 45 games, growing into his body, leading the line and improving his finishing beyond belief. He is devastating in the air and is capable on the ground of linking the play and being involved in the build-up. Palace, Hull City and West Brom are possible suitors and very much fans of the Benin international.

Gary Hooper - Norwich

Gary Hooper Norwich

Hooper is another Championship striker who is never far from the lips of Premier League managers in the bottom half of the table. Hooper has returned to the Norwich team after injury and has hit top form, scoring goals and creating them for his team-mates at will.

His great movement, quick feet and a knack of anticipating where the ball will drop make him a possible transfer target. Alex Neil has a better argument than Gary Bowyer to keep hold of his prized asset as the Canaries, in a season of under-achievement, still find themselves only four points off the play-off places and eight points off automatic promotion.

Eoin Doyle – Chesterfield

After an incredible season last year there were questions whether Doyle would be able to replicate his goal-scoring exploits. The answer has been a resounding yes.

His work-rate is immense and he has got everything, including a real hunger and desire. While not the biggest, he is wiry, lean and keen and never put off. It is not a case of centre-halves saying early in the game ‘I am going to leave a bit on him, put him on his backside’, he just jumps up, dusts himself down and goes again.

He has been terrific for Chesterfield, his strengths really are his work-rate, his self-belief and attitude, which are spot on. You can see he genuinely loves playing football and it oozes out of him. If his team-mates continue to give him a supply line then he could shoot them into the play-offs, which would be a remarkable achievement.

Andy Williams – Swindon

Following a cruciate knee injury in October 2013, Williams is making up for lost time and taking out his frustrations on League One defences up and down the country. I think the time out has made him hungrier and the time spent in the gym has made him stronger. His natural goalscoring instincts remain undiminished and he looks back to the form that saw him score 17 goals for Yeovil back in 11-12.

He is a player with great movement, an excellent touch and is good in the air, but his appreciation of space is his biggest attribute. He knows how to find it and more importantly how to exploit it, often arriving at the last second to power a header home or get the deft touch to a cross when a defender thinks he has got him marked.

Reuben Reid – Plymouth

Reuben Reid of Plymouth Argyle in action during the Sky Bet League Two match against Wycombe Wanderers

I said at the beginning of the season if Plymouth were going to do anything then Reid had to hit the heights of last season when he got well into double figures.

He has fallen down the divisions but looks to have found his home at Home Park! The fans absolutely love him and he has got himself really fit. He is playing week in, week out, he can drop deep and receive the ball and run at players because of his background as a wide player.

He is fantastic; a player who has enjoyed a second coming following a disappointing spell at West Brom where things didn’t work out for him.

He has got on with it and his 12 league goals this season speak volumes. If Plymouth are going to get that last play-off place they must keep him fit. Many thought he might have moved last summer but he is committed to the club and looks like he is going to better last season’s tally.

Mark Cullen – Luton Town

Luton Town's Mark Cullen in action

Mark is a player who scores important goals. At the beginning of the season when Luton were winning by the odd goal it was always Mark’s goals that were pivotal. Manager John Still was desperate to keep him because his work ethic for the team is immense, he runs himself into the ground.

In fairness, he is probably a second striker, not the one you would expect to get you 20 goals. But he is the one that plays off somebody, runs the channels and often the guy that provides the assists by running in behind and turning provider.

Luton can pair him with a strike partner which will take a bit of pressure off. John said he might need a rest as he has run himself into the ground, and looking towards the latter end of the season hopefully his goals will prove important.

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