Football is perishable, so what has been delivered does not guarantee success in the future (asks Marcus Rashford). Nevertheless, what is delivered in terms of performances, goals, choice of league and club provides the basis for long-term success. An excessively slow introduction, but this is the analysis of Alan Shearer, the Premier League history’s highest scoring player, when he places a Norwegian 24-year-old at the top of the throne.
On Friday, Haaland signed a contract with Manchester City that runs into “football eternity”. For Alan Shearer, this choice and Haaland’s extreme flair and finishes at the Premier League’s almost undisputed one, City, will be the path to one of the greatest individual records in the world of football.
English striker legend Shearer has 260 Premier League goals from 1992-2006 for Blackburn and Newcastle. Next on the top list is Harry Kane, but the Spurs player opted out of the Bundesliga transfer record. Shearer jokingly said, when rumoured of Kane’s exit from the Premier League: “I’ll drive him to the airport myself, if he leaves”.
One who decided this week that he will not travel is the 24-year-old Haaland. In two and a half seasons, “our man” has 79 goals in 87 Premier League games.
“If he stays that long, he will undoubtedly break that record. My record will disappear one day… My record will be beaten one day, I’m sure of that,” said Alan Shearer according to Goal.
Shearer doesn’t ignore the fact that Kane with 213 goals in 320 Premier League games, or Mohamed Salah with 175 goals in 283 games can break the record (if Kane returns, if Salah gets an extension at Liverpool), but that Haaland will then “smoothly” pass the new scoring record.
