9 | Erling Haaland - 2024/25

Absolute freak of nature! Need to get his contract extension sorted asap.
 
I know this might seem trivial, but Haaland posted his matchball picture onboard what looked like a private jet. Does he not travel with the rest of the squad?
 
M23 Citizen said:
Jimmy Greaves scored 100 goals in his first 109 games for Spurs which would put him second in the list and first in English football.

Hughie Hayes scored 103 goals in his first 125 games for Newcastle (his 100th goal came in the 125th game, it was a game in which he scored a double brace to take him from 99 to 103). He’d be 4th in that list and second in English football.

And Jimmy Greaves again, scored 100 goals in his first 133 games for Chelsea which would also put him 7th in the list and third in English football.

However, I can’t find any game-by-game information on Dixie Dean so can’t see which game he scored his 100th goal for Everton. But you can see in season-by-season stats that he scored 122 goals in his first 119 games for Everton.

If anyone can find Dean’s game-by-game stats, there’s a chance that he could be the fastest ever to 100 goals for a club.
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The problem with going that far back is that there were so many more goals per game, defending was absolutely shite.

We’re literally talking about almost 2x as many goals, which has to change how you view the achievement.

In Haaland’s first season, everyone was saying it didn’t get close to Dean’s 60 goal season but actually if you look at how many goals were scored in the league that season, Dean was responsible for 3.39% of the goals in the league that season, which would be 36 goals in 2021/22 - exactly the same as Haaland got.

This is why, while I understand the desire to include all of football history in statistics, 1990 is actually a very convenient cut off if you want to make meaningful comparisons because it’s basically the beginning of the modern football - the offside rule, pass back rule, the modern football calendar with 2-3 games and 3 substitutes all coming in around then which together changed the game significantly to the point where comparisons too far either side of that line are pretty meaningless IMO.
 
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