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Premier League has been blessed with a lot of prolific goalscorers in its extensive history. From Alan Shearer at the outset of the competition to Cristiano Ronaldo in the last decade and Mo Salah now, the English top-flight has seen it all.
The best thing about this competition is its competitiveness, which makes scoring goals on a regular basis very tough and a completely different affair as compared to any of the 'Big 5' European leagues.
One of the very first milestones for any striker in any league is to reach 50 goals for his club and what makes it even more memorable is achieving the feat in record time.
Liverpool's Egyptian forward, Salah, who had scored 32 goals in the 2017-18 season for them, now has 50 goals for them, which he managed in just 69 games. Which is quite impressive, but not good enough to make him the player with least number of appearances for that return.
Surprisingly, some of the best strikers of last decade, in Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo and Didier Drogba are all absent from this list.
So, if Salah is not the fastest to reach 50 goals in the PL for one club, one question we might ask is, who is it? We have the answer for you right here, so, just sit back and relax, as here we take a look at the 5 players who produced a return of 50 goals for a single club in the fastest time, revealing the record-holder at the end of our article.
#5. Sergio Aguero
Kicking off our list with the striker having the fifth-best time to reach 50-goal mark in the league with his club, we have Manchester City's reliable forward, Sergio Aguero.
The Argentine has been one of the most consistent player in the league, producing a return of 20+ goals in the last four seasons with the Sky Blues.
His ridiculous stats make a strong case for him to be the best Argentinean player of the PL era.
He has been an ever-present figure for the Cityzens as they ushered into their new era of dominance in the league and has scored 162 goals for them, earning the honour of the highest non-European scorer in the history of the Premier League.
Coming to his landmark 50th goal in the competition, the 30-year old took just 81 games to score the memorable goal, in a 5-1 humbling of Tottenham Hotspur in the 2013-14 season.
The former Atletico Madrid sharpshooter is now on verge of breaking two PL goalscoring records, as he has Arsenal legend Thierry Henry's 175 goal mark and the title of league's leading overseas goalscorer in his sights and now has 11 hat-tricks in the league, as much as Alan Shearer.
#4. Fernando Torres
We have another former Atletico Madrid player in our countdown to the fastest player to reach 50 goals with a club, in Fernando Torres at number 4 in our list.
Former Chelsea and Liverpool striker, Torres was arguably one of the most lethal finishers in the game during the initial days of his spell with the Reds, becoming the first Liverpool player since Robbie Fowler in the 1995–96 season to score 20 league goals in a season, in the 2007-08 campaign.
He scored 24 goals in his debut season but, after that, it took him another one and a half years to score another 26 times, as he reached his half-century of goals 72 matches after making his PL debut.
He never got back to the heights of his debut PL season and was only able to find the back of the net on 15 occasions in his final 30 outings for the Merseyside club, leaving Anfield with 65 goals to his name in 102 appearances.
Though he struggled on the club level, he was always a reliable player for his nation and helped Spain lift EURO 2008, World Cup 2010 and EURO 2012 trophies in succession by his goals.
#3. Mohamed Salah
Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah is the latest player to score 50 goals for a single club in the PL and completes the duo of Liverpool strikers in our list.
The 26-year-old broke his six-game goal-drought in the Red's 3-1 win against Southampton, scoring his 50th goal for the club, bettering Torres' nine-year-old record.
He already reached the 50-goal landmark in the league back in January having scored two goals for his former club Chelsea.
Last season's Golden Boot winner could've been the fastest player to reach the feat, if not for the rare dry spell he was facing in the league, failing to score in six consecutive outings for the club, having scored his 49th goal in the Reds' jersey in his 62nd appearance for them.
Salah is one of just eight Liverpool players who has reached a half-century of Premier League goals, but more importantly with him being back to scoring ways, we can expect Jurgen Klopp's men to be the giving Manchester City a run for their money this season, as they chase their first domestic league triumph since 1990.
#2. Ruud van Nistelrooy
One thing Manchester United are missing out on this season is a steady flow of goals from their attackers, but over the years Old Trafford has been graced by some fine strikers of the game and Ruud van Nistelrooy was one of them, who is the penultimate entry in our list.
Nistelrooy, who is the fifth-highest goalscorer in UEFA Champions League history with 56 goals, featured in 150 league games for the Red Devils over five years, scoring 95 goals.
He can be described as the ultimate fox in the box, with only one of his 150 goals in all competitions for the club coming from outside of the box and it goes without saying that his greatest asset was finishing moves and scoring goals.
He had to wait for three seasons before he scored his 50th goal for the 13 times PL champions in his 68th outing for the club, just missing out on the title for the fastest player to reach the feat by just two games.
#1. Alan Shearer
Well, we have reached at the end of our list and as many might've already guessed, we culminate our countdown with the legend himself, Alan Shearer taking the honour of being the fastest player to reach 50 goals for a single club in the Premier League history.
His entry at the summit of our list should not come as a surprise, as he is the greatest striker the English top-flight has seen to date, notching a record 260 goals in his career.
He also holds the distinction of scoring 100 or more goals for two different clubs in the PL, scoring 112 for Blackburn Rovers and 148 for Newcastle United.
It was with the Rovers that he would go on to create history, by scoring his 50th goal during his third season with the club in just 66 games. He was at his prolific best in his four-year spell with the North England club and left the club with an incredible goals-per-game ratio of 0.8115.
It seems this will be Shearer's one more record, apart from the one for most goals scored, that any player will find difficult to surpass in the coming years.
