Devonshire Cougars prolific goal-poacher Raymond Beach could be set to take his phenomenal scoring exploits to the UK early next year, The Royal Gazette can reveal.

Plans are currently in their initial stages to have Beach travel overseas for football trials although it remains unclear at which club or division at the moment, according to sources presently involved in heavy discussions to have the goal-happy striker take a shot at the professional game in the UK.

Should plans for Beach to undergo trials in England come to fruition, it would mark the second time the player has been a given a run at playing professional football.

The prolific poacher - who has led the Premier Division scoring charts for the past three seasons - had a brief run out at Tottenham Hotspur two years ago.

Since returning to active football in mid-October, the Devonshire Cougar has astonishingly netted 17 goals in only eight appearances, jumping off the bench last Sunday to score a spectacular second-half treble in Cougars 5-1 Champions Cup demolition over a grossly- diluted PHC Zebras outfit - the player's third hat-trick of the season.

Beach, 21, was voted as the Premier Division's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2002-03.

Now amid one of the hottest goal-scoring streaks in recent times, Beach's goal-poaching exploits have not gone unnoticed by national coach Kyle Lightbourne who has made it no secret the player remains a “big part” of his future plans.

“Without a doubt I have taken notice and he is certainly in my plans for the future. Actually we would have liked to have had Beach involved with the team for the Digicel Cup,” Lightbourne noted.

“Raymond seems to scores goals naturally and once you are a proven goalscorer then you're always going to be a goalscorer,” he continued.

“He takes a high percentage of his chances and now it remains to be seen how he copes at the international level. But I'm confident he will score goals and bring along the threat of scoring to the national team.

“He can be quiet on the field for 80 minutes but give him one chance and he puts the ball away - he is just one of those players. He always enters the pitch thinking of scoring a goal and he reminds me of myself when I was younger. First thing on my mind was always to score and he also brings along that confidence to his team.”

Though it has yet to be confirmed, The Royal Gazette has learned plans are in the pipeline to have the senior national team compete against touring teams to the Island early in the new year.

But while Lightbourne remains reluctant to divulge any immediate plans for the national team, the former Coventry City striker revealed: “The national team will resume training the first week of January and if we can get some matches in, then it will provide local players a chance to improve upon their skills.”

Lightbourne has already indicated that he will not call on overseas professionals Shaun Goater, David Bascome or John Barry Nusum in the event plans to have the national team take on touring teams in the new year do in fact get off the ground.

Meanwhile, only last month Beach turned down an offer to accompany the senior national squad to St.Vincent for the ill-fated Digicel Cup tournament.

Beach declined the late offer only hours after it had been learned Reading striker Goater would not be travelling to the Caribbean to join his fellow countrymen on the eve of the local team's departure.

Boulevard veteran striker Marvin Belboda was summoned instead.

Lightbourne added: “The impression that I have of Beach is that he always enters the pitch focussed on scoring and when he doesn't score he's certainly not a happy man. . . and that's a good thing. Not every time will a striker score but as a forward you have to realise that your job is to score - and he is certainly aware of his role in attack.”