Profiles - Nathan Blake
top scorer
By J Bateman
November 19 2002
Nathan Blake comes under the player profiles spotlight today.
| Real name | Nathan Blake |
| Height | 5.11 |
| Weight | 13.12 |
| Date of birth | 27-01-1972 |
| Place of birth | Cardiff |
| Position | Forward |
| Nationality | Wales |
| International Caps | 23 |
| International Goals | 4 |
| Currently playing for | Wolves |
| Signed on | 13-09-2001 |
| Fee | £ 1500000 |
| Squad number | 9 |
| Club | From | To | Fee | League | FA Cup | League cup | Other | ||||
| Wolves | 13-09-2001 | £ 1500000 | 53 (2) | 20 | 1 (0) | 0 | 2 (0) | 1 | 2 (0) | 0 | |
| Blackburn | 30-10-1998 | 13-09-2001 | £ 4250000 | 37 (18) | 13 | 5 (3) | 2 | 3 (0) | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 |
| Bolton | 22-12-1995 | 30-10-1998 | £ 1200000 | 102 (5) | 38 | 6 (0) | 2 | 10 (1) | 8 | 0 (0) | 0 |
| Sheff Utd | 21-02-1994 | 22-12-1995 | £ 300000 | 55 (14) | 34 | 1 (0) | 0 | 3 (1) | 1 | 1 (0) | 0 |
| Cardiff | 20-08-1990 | 21-02-1994 | Free | 113 (18) | 35 | 10 (0) | 4 | 6 (2) | 0 | 13 (2) | 1 |
| Chelsea | 01-08-1989 | 20-08-1990 | Junior | No appearance data available | |||||||
| Totals | £ 7250000 | 360 (57) | 140 | 23 (3) | 8 | 24 (4) | 11 | 16 (2) | 1 | ||
| goals / game | 0.33 | 0.30 | 0.39 | 0.05 | |||||||
Nathan started his career at Chelsea as a junior but his first big break was at Cardiff , he scored 35 goals in four seasons at Ninian Park before moving on and making his name at Sheff Utd and Bolton.
Nathan has been critised down the years for his lazy approach but the strenght of the man we all know is fiercesome , he then moved on to Blackburn but never made the grade there and was sold to Wolves in 2001 for £1.5 million.
Blake has achieved success everywhere he's been and Wolves failure at promotion last year as only wetted his appetite even more to succeed at Molineux , he is top scorer with 10 goals already this season but is currently out of action with broken toes.