Another transfer widow is here and various premier league clubs are looking to add qualities (though it can turn out to be quantities) into their side.... Chelsea £50million bid for Higuain rejected, Arsenal looking to trigger Diego Costa £35million release clause, West Ham paying £3million for Traore "6 months loan“ deal...
Aren't these money just too much, you can get better goal machines for so much less in the English Championship.

It’s a seemingly straightforward question:
Why don’t Premier League clubs more often sign prolific strikers from the second tier of English football?
So far this season the Championship has been graced by a number of regular goalscorers who all, to a greater or lesser extent, would appear to fit the profile sought by many Premier League clubs.

Across the likes of Charlie Austin, Jordan
Rhodes, Danny Ings and current top scorer Ross McCormack (17 goals in 23 games) you will see most of the attributes desired at the highest level—pace, hold-up play, a clinical touch in the box—while all, tantalisingly, would still seem to be some way from their peak (McCormack, at 27, is the oldest by three years).
What is more, none of them would cost the Earth. While their respective clubs would undoubtedly not be keen to let them go— crucial as they are to the pursuit of promotion—the financial realities of English football mean they would remain somewhat powerless to resist a bid that would otherwise be considered small change to those swimming in Premier League television payments—the very same riches they are hoping to reach themselves soon.


For the likes of Tottenham and Manchester City, who spent over £50 million in combination on Robert Soldado and Alvaro Negredo, paying a premium for foreign stars makes sense, considering their aims for the season. But other clubs, of perhaps more modest ambitions, also opted to spend big on established names or promising continental talents rather than look to the Championship for their next goalscorer.

The list is almost endless. Southampton beat off rumoured interest from Spurs to sign Pablo Osvaldo for £14 million from Roma, while Fulham and Stoke City agreed to pay high wages (but admittedly small fees) to take risks on Darren Bent and Marko Arnautovic. Aston Villa willingly paid £7 million for Libor Kozak from Lazio, while Sunderland found nearly £9 million for the similarly imposing Jozy Altidore to depart AZ Alkmaar and lead their line instead.

Swansea paid over £12 million for Wilfried Bony—six times what they paid for Michu , and his 18 league goals, a year earlier—while Norwich forked out more than that in combination for Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Johan Elmander and Gary Hooper, although the latter was admittedly prolific in England’s second tier for Scunthorpe between 2008 and 2010.

Cardiff spent big on Andreas Cornelius and then complemented him with Peter
Odemwingie, while Hull picked up Yannick
Sagbo for a relative song from French side Evian. Crystal Palace, meanwhile, were relatively frugal—taking on Marouane Chamakh’s contract from Arsenal in exchange for a small transfer fee, and then adding Cameron Jerome on loan.

Some Championship Strikers Goal Tally In Their First Season In The EPL.

Marcus Stewart 2000-01 19 goals

Andy Johnson 2004-05 21 goals

Kevin Doyle 2006-07 13 goals

DJ Campbell 2010-11 13 goals

Grant Holt 2011-12 15 goals

Danny Graham 2011-12 12 goals

Rickie Lambert 2012-13 15 goals