Erling Haaland has made a ridiculous start to life at Manchester City. He’s well on course to break the record for the fewest games to score 50 goals in a league since 2000.
As it happens, Haaland actually already has that record, having been ridiculously prolific during his time at Borussia Dortmund. There are also no surprises to see some of the other star names that make up the rest of the list.
We’ve taken a look at the fastest 10 players to hit 50 goals in Europe’s top five leagues – Ligue 1, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A and the Premier League – since 2000. The list is dominated by big-name signings who were established at the top of their game before hitting the ground running at major powerhouses.
=10. Mohamed Salah (Chelsea & Liverpool)
Salah would be considerably higher in this list, were it not for his fruitless spell on the fringes at Chelsea, having scored two goals in 13 Premier League appearances for the Blues, many of them off the bench.
Still, he edges the top 10, having scored 47 goals in his first 59 Premier League appearances for Liverpool, to make it 50 in 72 overall. Only Alan Shearer reached the Premier League milestone in fewer minutes.
=10. Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
El Nino’s arrival at Anfield came with one of the great adverts of the Premier League era – and luckily enough for Nike, he justified all the noise.
The former Spain international scored 24 league goals in his debut season in England, before injuries began to limit his game time. Still, he continued to boast a better than one-in-two goalscoring ratio across his time in Merseyside, needing just 72 appearances to score his first 50 Premier League goals for the Reds.
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=8. Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan)
Some of Shevchenko’s goals for Milan came before the turn of the century, but we’re including the Ukrainian because his 50th in Serie A came in 2001 – in just his 68th appearance in the league after his arrival from Dynamo Kyiv.
The legendary Rossoneri striker set a record for the fastest player to reach 50 goals, back when Serie A was true to its reputation as the natural home of great defenders and not the free-scoring league it is today.
=8. Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United)
Shearer and Andy Cole reached 50 Premier League goals in fewer games than Van Nistelrooy, but no player in…
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