No doubt his stats are impressive right now, but I think its abit premature to compair him already to the greats, let him play a season first.
He is in insane form, but Ronaldo in 14/15 started with 15 goals after 8 rounds, were he missed 1 game because of yellow cards so he had 15 in 7, so he actually had a better start then Haaland got now.
So abit unfair to take Haaland 8 game vs Messi/Ronaldo 38 game average.
I agree that he prob can match their goal scoring records in a peak season were everything clicks (Maybe already this), scary how he will be if he keeps improving the next 5 years.
It's obviously premature to bastantly claim the records will be broken already this season, but he is actually already eclipsing the greats' most purple patches of their 20 year long careers and his career numbers per 90 are already better than Messi and Ronaldo's career numbers. He is absolutely crushing their numbers at the same age, so it's actually not premature to compair him to them and play with the thought of what lies ahead.
The 5th of October 2007, (Ronaldo 22 years old), at the start of his Ballon d'or season with us Ronaldo had this numbers in all comps so far that season (seen by many as one of the best ever seasons by a single player in an English club):
1 goal and 0 assists in 177 minutes in the CL
1 goal and 0 assists in 445 minutes in the PL (had been suspended 3 games for a red card)
0 goals and 0 assists in 120 minutes in the Charity Shield
Total 2 goals and 0 assists in 742 minutes - 0,24 G/90 and 0,24 G+A/90
Haaland so far this season (Let's see if he can add to his numbers tonight):
3 goals and 0 assists in 160 minutes in the CL
14 goals and 3 assists in 664 minutes in the PL
0 goals and 0 assists in 90 minutes in the Charity Shield
Total 17 goals and 3 assists in 914 minutes - 1,67 G/90 and 1,97 G+A/90
To make it a bit more fair, here's his start this season compaired to Ronaldo's start of the 14/15 season (his careers best):
2 goals and 1 assists in 180 minutes in the CL
15 goals and 1 asissts in 630 minutes in LaLiga
0 goals and 0 assists in 90 minutes in the Super Copa
Total 17 goals and 2 assists in 900 minutes - 1,7 G/90 and 1,9 G+A/90 (He ended his record season on 1,19 G/90 & 1,63 G+A/90)
Messi's had some patches were he's scored at a similar rate and assisted more, but not at 22.
So it's really not crazy to compair them, and keep in mind this is against the absolute peak patches of the GOATs numbers wise. The absolute peak!
Are we seeing Haalands absolute peak right now? I don't think we do.
He's playing Copenhagen tonight and Saints at home on Saturday....I predict that this thread will be bumped between now and Sunday.