Will anyone ever chase down Alan Shearer as the king of Premier League goal scorers?

Harry Kane was racing to challenge his crown before moving to Bayern Munich and taking his free-scoring ways away from the record chase for now.

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Then the burden fell to Liverpool's Mohamed Salah, but he called time on that tenure at the end of the 2025-26 season. The Egyptian left for Trabzonspor with his haul sitting 16 back of No. 3 Wayne Rooney and 21 behind Kane.

Will Erling Haaland stick around long enough to do it? The Norwegian has become the fastest player to 100 goals in Premier League history and just turned 26 in July. If he were to stay at City, even if his pace were to slow to 100 goals every four seasons, Haaland could be near the throne room somewhere around 2032.

Shearer scored 260 Premier League goals during his remarkable career with Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United, and that figure's even more impressive when you consider his first professional seasons were played prior to the Premier League era with Southampton.

Wayne Rooney's incredible career, played almost entirely in the Premier League, saw him become the second player to bag 200+ goals in the competition. The former Manchester United and Everton star counts 208 goals as his haul.

Kane moved clear of Rooney during the 2022-23 season and his 213 goals are 47 behind Shearer. There is not an active Premier League player within 140 goals of Shearer, as Haaland is 140 behind the Newcastle hero.

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