Amr Zaki a Predictable Surprise

Four goals in four games have put the Premier League on alert, and, assuming Dr. Evil Daniel Levy has heard, Damien Comolli is probably being tortured in the bowels of White Hart Lane for not bringing Egyptian Amr Zaki to Tottenham.

Zaki's start has been branded shocking, alarming, astounding, dumbfounding, flabbergasting, miraculous, and Bobby Zamora-like. All fallacies.

Sure Zamora had his own run of five goals in four games to start the 2006-07 season, but even a coyote catches a roadrunner now and again. Zamora's international record reads 6 U-21 appearances, 0 goals, 0 honors received, and reminds us all that the roadrunner always gets away.

Zaki's: 48 appearances, 29 goals, twice African Nations Cup champion, named to 2008 African Nation's Cup Starting XI.

He's got an accurate low shot reminiscent of Samuel Eto'o, his build is comparable to Robbie Keane, he's got deceptive moment that allow him to dribble by defenders despite lacking high-end quickness, and he can score off headers.

Don't expect him to stay atop the Premier League scoring charts, but Zaki could score around 20 Premier League goals for Wigan Athletic this season and cement his reputation in the class of Roque Santa Cruz and Dean Ashton, above the group of Andy Johnson, Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, and Darren Bent. Assuming rumors that Wigan do not have an option to buy him in the summer are true, a bid of £15 million pounds from a Champions League wanna-be wouldn't surprise me.