Haaland vs Everyone: Is Haaland about to be the greatest goal scorer of all time in the history of football? Erling Haaland is currently 22 years old striker from Manchester City. What is so special about him? He has been the most aggressive since he joined the club. The Beast and A Goal Machine are the names given to Haaland for his amazing goal-scoring capability. So we are comparing everyone who has been the greatest goal scorer of all time today to see where Haaland stands at such a young age.
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After their debut at Borussia Dortmund, Haaland was switched to Premier League. Soon after the switch to Manchester City, Haaland scored 14 goals in his very first 10 matches. A whopping total of 149 club goals and 21 goals for Norway makes him one of the best goal scorers of all time. Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City is happy to express his aggressive views that Haaland will only get better with time.
We are putting him against all the amazing goal scorers of all time to see where he stands when others were his age.
Cristiano Ronaldo: The world’s best player title was given to Cristiano after Kaka. Some similarities show that Cristiano also moved to Manchester City to be proved the best goal scorer in the history of football. He also won Ballon d’Or when he was 22.
Karim Benzema: Benzema, was signed Real Madrid in the year 2009 and Sir Alex Ferguson had his eyes on him for many seasons. He has been the best player in La Liga for consecutive 4 years starting from 2018 to the current year 2022. Scoring 66 Goals in 148 games looks just astonishing.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: A Swedish troublemaker with skills unmatched has a score of 48 goals in 110 match appearances when he was the age 22. The best goals came in his career playing for AC Milan and PSG. He was compared to the legend Marco van Basten when he started his career.
Kylian Mbappe: Just 18 months older than Haaland, Mbappe is way ahead with 208 goals in a total of 286 match appearances. That puts Mbappe to be better than Haaland with an average goal score of 0.78 per game. It looks like Haaland and Mbappe are the next Messi and Ronaldo of the current generation.
Haaland proves to become a legend just like our greatest scorers of all time. If he continues with the same pace, Haaland could actually out perform the legends.
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