Erling Haaland’s fast start to the season has seen his odds slashed to win a third consecutive Golden Boot, and the Norwegian is now rated as a 4/1 shot to break the all-time Premier League goalscoring record.
Haaland’s seventh Premier League hat-trick against Ipswich Town on Saturday took his tally for the new season to four in two matches, and 67 goals in 68 games overall.
Having started the campaign at just 8/11 to win the Golden Boot, he’s now been cut to 2/5 to win a third in a row, something that hasn’t been done since Thierry Henry in 2006.
Alan Shearer – who holds the record for most Premier League goals scored with 260 – is the only other player to achieve the feat while playing for both Blackburn and Newcastle between 1994 and 1997.
Shearer has now sat at the top of the Premier League all-time charts for over 30 years, with Teddy Sheringham the last man to hold the crown all the way back in December 1993.
And, according to exclusive odds provided by Crypto Casinos, Haaland is now a 4/1 chance to surpass Shearer’s total before he leaves the Premier League.
His current strike rate of a goal every 83 minutes is by far the most prolific among the Premier League’s greatest ever goalscorers, with Sergio Aguero, his predecessor at Manchester City, the next best among the division’s top 10 marksmen with a goal every 103 minutes.
However, even continuing at his current pace, it would still take the Norwegian until the 2030/31 season to hit 261 goals. With his father, Alf-Inge, hinting that he could keep moving around elite clubs in Europe, he is not the biggest threat to Shearer’s crown.
Mo Salah, meanwhile, is the highest scorer still currently playing in the division, having started the season in 10th place in the all-time list with 157 goals.
Two in two matches so far this campaign has seen his chances of a fourth Golden Boot cut from 10/1 to 9/1, and with Jermain Defoe, Robbie Fowler, Henry and Frank Lampard all within his sights before the end of the season, he’s guaranteed to leapfrog plenty more names in the all-time charts.
However, now 32, in the last year of his contract and with regular rumours of an impending move to Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian winger is rated as a 20/1 shot to score the 102 goals required to overhaul Shearer’s total.
Instead, it is Harry Kane who has the best chance of finishing his career on top of the pile, despite currently playing in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich.
Kane sat second in the all-time list on 213 goals when he left Tottenham in 2023 but has only just turned 31 and could feasibly return to the Premier League for a couple more productive seasons before he retires.
It would need to be sooner rather than later, however, if anybody is to break Shearer’s 30-year reign as the Premier League GOAT.
Odds of surpassing Alan Shearer’s all-time record of 260 Premier League goals:
- Harry Kane 5/4
- Erling Haaland 4/1
- Mohamed Salah 20/1