Erling Haaland’s arrival at Manchester City is one of the most hyped transfers in recent history – but will the striker live up to the hype on Fantasy Premier League?
The 22-year-old Norway international is regarded as one of the standout players of his generation and has been tipped to dominate elite European football for years to come.
No player has reached 50 goals in a major European league faster than Haaland, doing so in just 50 Bundesliga appearances for Borussia Dortmund, while he’s also become the fastest and youngest player to score 20 Champions League goals, doing so in just 14 games for Red Bull Salzburg and Dortmund.
But how would his goalscoring record stack up on FPL? He’s the most expensive forward in the game with a price of £11.5million – but will he prove worth it?
Bundesliga record
Last season, Haaland scored 22 goals and registered seven assists from just 24 Bundesliga appearances. He averaged a goal or an assist every 66 minutes.
The season before that – the youngster’s first full campaign at Dortmund and in a major European league – Haaland scored 27 goals and registered a further six assists, averaging a goal contribution every 73 minutes.
Anyone with concerns that Haaland might need time to acclimatise to a new team in a new league might want to take a look at the striker’s first half-season in Germany.
He arrived at Dortmund as a 19-year-old in January 2020 and scored an iconic 20-minute hat-trick on his debut. The teenager went on to notch 13 goals and two assists in that maiden Bundesliga campaign, averaging one or the other every 70 minutes.
Erling Braut Håland was subbed on with Dortmund losing 3-1…
Twenty minutes later he completed his hat-trick and they won 5-3 😳
Oh yeah, and it was his debut 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ItNuFtRk0U
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) January 18, 2020
In total, after two-and-a-half seasons at Dortmund, Haaland scored 61 goals and registered eight assists in 67 Bundesliga appearances, averaging a contribution every 66 minutes.
To put that in context, the top-scoring forward on FPL last season was Tottenham’s Harry Kane with 192 points, having registered 17 goals and 11 assists, averaging a direct contribution to goal every 115 minutes.
If – and this is the key question – if Haaland can maintain his attacking numbers at Manchester City over the course of a full season, he’d instantly become one of the highest-scoring forwards in FPL history.
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