TWO weeks into the English Premier League season and there is a very unfamiliar name at the top of the scoring charts: Miguel Perez Cuesta or simply Michu.

Three goals in two games have propelled Swansea’s off-season signing to a place which has usually had the names of Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez.

The presence of the Spaniard has helped the Swans to two massive victories in their opening two Premier League games. Swansea started the season with a 5-0 demolition of Queens Park Rangers before their 3-0 victory over West Ham United on the weekend.

The most interesting aspect, though, is the transfer fee that Swansea had to pay for Michu. A meagre £2million.

And that by no way means that the 26-year-old Spaniard doesn’t have that much of a pedigree.

15 goals in La Liga for a struggling Rayo Vallecano side that made him the highest scoring midfielder in a league that has the likes of Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas and Mesut Ozil are a good measure of the player’s calibre.

For what he has shown so far, all credit goes to the club’s new boss Michael Laudrup and his scouting team.

How they managed to strike a deal at a bargain price for a midfielder who scored just a couple of goals less than the highly-rated and valued Fernando Llorente of Athletic Bilbao speaks volumes that Laudrup has just as good an eye for a player as the one he had for a pass during his playing days.

“He already fits in with the mentality of the team,” Laudrup had said at the time of his signing. “These players don’t come from Barcelona or Real Madrid. They know how to fight. They come from smaller clubs who have the same mentality as Swansea.”

And Michu did not disappoint.

On his Premier League debut last week, the Spaniard scored a two goals — one lucky and one absolutely sublime — and set up another while also controlling the Swans’ play in the centre of midfield in both offence and defence.

Then on Saturday, he scored another one after a blunder by the West Ham defence.

Not bad for a £2million signing?

“In Spain there are huge economic problems so you can get a lot of quality for reasonable amounts right now,” Laudrup told The Independent last week. “It is a difficult moment for them.”

La Liga clubs except for Barca or Real have been mired by both financial and institutional crises.

Malaga, whose oil-rich Qatari owners poured billions into the club last season, have now been forced to sell players to balance their books.

On top of that, the clubs’ long-running dispute with television broadcasters continues and that has resulted in kick-off times for matches in the league being altered to appease the broadcasters and ease the issue of TV rights distribution that last year saw Real bag a whopping £150m while lowly Racing Santander getting a paltry £15m.

Not that Michu would care. For now, he’s focusing on keeping his form going.

“I just want to stay focused from match to match now,” he told Sky Sports after the weekend game.

For that, though, he has a secret recipe: eating plenty of bean stew.

“My fridge is full of bean stew, chirozo and saffron,” he told The Sun. “I celebrated my first goal by pouring some Asturian cider. None of my team-mates knew what I was doing. Maybe I’ll have to bring some for them to try.”