Man City news: Haaland breaks another record

What does Erling Haaland do best – besides scoring goals? Break records.

And that is just what he did on Saturday as he became the fastest player to reach 100 Premier League goal involvements with his penalty kick against Brighton.

Since his arrival at Manchester City in July 2022, the striker has scored 84 goals and provided 16 assists in 94 games, figures which tally to see him comfortably surpass Alan Shearer’s previous record of 79 goals and 21 assists in 100 games.

Haaland and Shearer are now the only players who have reached the figure in their third season in the Premier League. Sergio Aguero, Thierry Henry, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Les Ferdinand and Matt le Tissier all managed it in their fourth seasons.

It is also important to note that Haaland reached this milestone with more goals and fewer assists than Shearer, which is unsurprising given he won the Premier League Golden Boot in his first two seasons at City following his move from Borussia Dortmund.

But this season has been difficult for the Norwegian given the decline in City’s performances and results. A lack of service is a likely cause in his dip in stats.

Having said that, he has still scored 29 goals in 39 appearances in all competitions and 21 alone in the Premier League. That is only bettered by Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah who has netted 27 top-flight goals so far.

Haaland has a goal or assist every 103 minutes this season in the league, but he was managing it every 63 minutes in his first season and every 80 in the last campaign.

So the 24-year-old has another record to his name and while he is by no means in a goal drought, he is at least perhaps performing at more of a human rate.