Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal will go into the new season with re-tooled frontlines after splashing the cash this summer.

The Red Devils paid Everton £75million to land Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku , Arsenal shelled out £52million for Alexandre Lacazette and champions Chelsea spent £67million on Alvaro Morata .

At Old Trafford they have brought in a proven Premier League goalscorer to replace Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while the London pair have looked overseas to boost their options up front.

But who will net the most goals in the upcoming Premier League campaign? And how many will they score?

We asked the MirrorFootball team of reporters to give us their take...

Andy Dunn - Lukaku

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By my calculations, Lukaku’s goalscoring rate lags behind those of Alvaro Morata and Alexandre Lacazette.

Lukaku averages a league goal every 165 minutes while Lacazette strikes every 150 minutes and Morata every 92 minutes.

And a lot depends, of course, on how many chances are created for them, but my money would still be on Lukaku to outscore the Chelsea and Arsenal recruits.

Lukaku has matured into an accomplished Premier League striker while Morata and Lacazette will undoubtedly need time to adapt to the different demands of the competition.

Assuming he stays fit, Lukaku will be disappointed if he does not at last match last season’s tally of 25.

Mike Walters - Lukaku

Lukaku has already netted this pre-season (
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Jose Mourinho doesn't often get it wrong when he signs a big-money striker. From Didier Drogba to Diego Costa, his title-winning sides at Chelsea invariably had a talisman as a focal point up front, and Romelu Lukaku is cut from the same cloth.

Lukaku will be required to work his socks off to justify Mourinho's immense £75 million outlay on the Belgian international, but wherever he has played regularly in the Premier League, he has dealt in the currency advertised in the brochure - goals.

Will he score more than Morata and Lacazette? Probably - Lukaku has been banging them in at Premier League level for years now. There will always be a question mark about how quickly big-money imports can settle in English football: Just ask Paul Pogba.

Jake Murtagh - Morata

Morata found first-team opportunities hard to come by at Madrid (
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Alvaro Morata was arguably Manchester United’s top target this summer.

Jose Mourinho handed him his debut at Real Madrid, while the Special One bombed out Romelu Lukaku at Stamford Bridge.

However, United’s pursuit of Morata went cold and they ended up signing Lukkau instead.

The Spanish striker scored 15 goals in 14 league starts for Los Blancos last season and I think he will hit the ground running in the Premier League and outgun Lukaku and Alexandre Lacazette.

Jake Polden - Lacazette

Lacazette has swapped Lyon for Arsenal (
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My money is on Lacazette, especially if Alexis Sanchez moves on in the transfer window. The striker, who notched a staggering 28 goals in Ligue 1 last season and a further six in six in the Europa League, is used to playing week-in week-out - and scoring.

He'll relish the chance to show the world what he can do in the Premier League - it's been a long time coming - and already appears to have struck up a relationship with Mesut Ozil, which can't be a bad thing.

I expect Lukaku will need some to settle at United, although he'll certainly be knocking on the door, while Morata needs more game time.

Adrian Kajumba - Lukaku

Lukaku has been hard at work on United's pre-season tour (
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Manchester United's problem last season wasn't creating chances it was their failure to take them. Zlatan Ibrahimovic was one of the biggest culprits and still managed to score 28 times, 17 of those in the league.

But Romelu Lukaku is a more clinical finisher than the man he has replaced so, with the amount of opportunities he is likely to get, I can see him getting around a similar total to the 25 he scored in his final season at Everton.

The fact he knows what it takes to cope with the demands and score goals in the Premier League also gives him the edge in the battle of the Premier League's new big-money strikers.

Hamish Mackay - Lacazette

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Alexandre Lacazette's last three seasons have seen him score 88 goals for club and country. That's six more than Lukaku over the same period and 35 more than Morata.

The Frenchman's doubters will point to those goals being predominantly in Ligue 1, just as people did when Zlatan Ibrahimovic swapped France for England. Just like Ibrahimovic, though, Lacazette will have little trouble bringing that strike rate with him.

Speaking about the Arsenal forward, Chelsea defender David Luiz said: “Lacazette is a top player, top striker. I had many opportunities to play against him in France and he was always difficult. Arsenal did well to take him. He has the timing to go into the space, he finishes well, he can score many goals, he can assist. He is a top-level player.”

Lacazette is a natural goal scorer entering his prime years. In Arsenal, he has found himself an attacking team with a wealth of creativity behind him. If he stays injury free he could find himself scoring 20-25 league goals.

Darren Lewis - Lukaku

Lukaku was prolific at Everton (
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Lukaku to defy his doubters with 30 goals.

He has steadily scored more in each of the last four seasons.

Ibrahim Mustapha - Morata

Morata won La Liga and the Champions League last season (
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In terms of pure numbers, it doesn't look like he's scored a lot so far in his career. However Alvaro Morata's impressive minutes per goal record for Real Madrid should surely mean that with more game time he'll score more, right?

Anotnio Conte has already stated that his new signing is going to be first choice striker, meaning that he will get more starts and more opportunities to show what he's capable of.

Coming into a title-winning side spoilt with creative players around him, the Spaniard will certainly get chances. If Chelsea are anywhere near as impressive as last season, Morata will both contribute to, and benefit from that. 20-25 goals should be the minimum the Blues should expect as a return on their investment.

Alex Richards - Lukaku

Lukaku netted 25 goals last season (
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It's a difficult question.

Arsenal, should he remain, will again be very Alexis Sanchez-centric next season, and that could mean Lacazette sees chances shared more than he's used to. Should Sanchez leave, it could actually help Lacazette's cause.

Lukaku, who, after bagging 25 last term, will expect similar - if not more - in a United side that, while low scorers last term, did create chances in a number of matches where they dropped points.

Morata's goal-per-minute ratio at Real Madrid was outstanding last term, and he joins Chelsea at a point where he should be heading into his prime. His movement in behind is fantastic and he attacks crosses well, so should be a good fit for the Blues. Personal theory however is that he will be a bigger threat for the Blues in the so-called 'big matches'. How he adapts will be crucial to their title defence.

As such, I'll go for Lukaku. He seems like the biggest guarantee for league goals and I do have a question mark over Lacazette, given that Arsenal spent two years monitoring him but never moved before this summer.

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