Haaland Record Tracker

[SebastianBlue]

Quite rightly the charity/community shield doesn’t count as a competitive fixture in most official records.

That’s why I think Messi’s 73 goal season should actually only be 67. I don’t think Supercups and the World Club Cup (which 4 out of 6 of the ‘competing’ confederations have never won) are actual serious competitions. These are just stat padding opportunities. The kind of things that are nice to win but you forget about a day later.

Indeed.

I think the age old rule applies here: “is this silverware worthy of me getting a tattoo to commemorate it”.

If not, it shouldn’t count for records.

And nobody—player or fan—is getting a tat to remember winning the Community Shield or Club World Cup.

Well, save the Dippers… which is another arrow in our argument’s quiver. ;-)

 

[SebastianBlue]

I think he will start to lose his pace in 10 years or so. I suppose we can ship him off to Madrid when that happens.

He’ll just become Lewandowski at that point, who has never had exceptional pace and hasn’t done too bad for himself.

 

[Coatigan]

Quite rightly the charity/community shield doesn’t count as a competitive fixture in most official records.

That’s why I think Messi’s 73 goal season should actually only be 67. I don’t think Supercups and the World Club Cup (which 4 out of 6 of the ‘competing’ confederations have never won) are actual serious competitions. These are just stat padding opportunities. The kind of things that are nice to win but you forget about a day later.

Of course they all count, they are competitive matches ffs. Should we also not count goals against bottom 3 sides or chalk of champions league goals against lower ranked league teams?

If we win the champions league and Erling scores in the club world cup next year, you can bet I'll be counting them.

 

[Protein Junkie]

I also cant he arsed to look but back on the days of dixie dean, werent more goals scored in general anyway?

Let me help you hmm hmm

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Of course they all count, they are competitive matches ffs. Should we also not count goals against bottom 3 sides or chalk of champions league goals against lower ranked league teams?

If we win the champions league and Erling scores in the club world cup next year, you can bet I'll be counting them.

But they don't all count do they... or do we include our Joan Gamper trophy in our list of competitive achievements as well? I think the vast majority of people would say no.

There is a spectrum here and all we're disagreeing on is where you draw the line.

I'm saying I draw the line based on which tournaments clubs base their seasonal cycle around. Those are the ones they are trying to win, everything else is just decoration. If the community shield really counted then the teams competing in it would bring back their players to train earlier so they had fully fit squads but they don't. They often play weakened teams and make 5 subs at half time.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Martin Tyler seemed particularly pleased for him

 

[stan bowles]

Congratulations to Erling who seems to break a record every time he steps on the pitch! And at 22 there's every chance he'll get better still. We know how great he is now, but one thought that keeps coming back to me is what a great player Dixie Dean must have been as well.

Scored 60 league goals in his record season and followed that up with 44 league goals the next !

 

[SebastianBlue]

Congratulations to Erling who seems to break a record every time he steps on the pitch! And at 22 there's every chance he'll get better still. We know how great he is now, but one thought that keeps coming back to me is what a great player Dixie Dean must have been as well.

He definitely was for his day.

But I’ll go out on a limb and wager he’d struggle to score in a modern top flight football match.

Though, he’d love not getting hacked to death every match.

 

[remember arthur mann]

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Let me help you hmm hmm

Yep, and only had jumpers for goalposts.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Of course they all count, they are competitive matches ffs. Should we also not count goals against bottom 3 sides or chalk of champions league goals against lower ranked league teams?

If we win the champions league and Erling scores in the club world cup next year, you can bet I'll be counting them.

The FA aren’t counting them for the official records so we aren’t, either.