The mind-boggling projections speak volumes: Erling Haaland would finish the Premier League season on 67 goals if he maintains his current strike-rate and game time – and would extend that to 71 if he played every minute.
If Haaland sustains those metrics and reaches finals in all club competitions, the 22-year-old would register 109 goals this term – or 121 if he was never substituted.
Those figures are based on his average goal-rate across all competitions since the Premier League started, but Haaland could arguably score even more if he played against lower-tier sides in domestic cups.
Haaland is on course to almost double the all-time Premier League record of 34 goals, achieved during 42-game seasons by Andy Cole (1993/94) and Alan Shearer (1994/95) and would surpass Shearer’s record of 260 Premier League goals in fewer than four seasons.
In fact, Haaland has Dixie Dean’s English top-flight record of 60 goals in his sights – set in 1927/28 and remained unsurmountable for nearly a century.