Top 5 strikers in Europe so far this season

#2 - Erling Braut Haaland

Erling Braut Halaand has 26 goals in 18 games this season.

The young Norwegian first burst on to the scene this summer when he scored an unbelievable nine goals in a U-20 world cup game and he hasn't looked back since.

Erling Braut Halaand has 26 goals in 18 games this season, including seven in the UEFA Champions League which makes him the competition's leading goal-scorer.

He has lit-up the tournament with great goal-scoring displays against Genk, Napoli, and Liverpool.

With RB Salzburg, he is unsurprisingly the top scorer in the Austrian Football Bundesliga with 15 goals.

Still just 19, the tall striker is likely to attract the interest of Europe's top clubs. Manchester United have been linked with him but it seems unlikely they will land him.

Haaland recently proclaimed his love for the Champions League and unless United can provide him a platform to participate in that, which seems highly unlikely given their struggles this season, they will miss out on him.

If he continues his thumping goal-scoring run he'll surely find himself at a big club although it seems like he still needs a bit more experience at the top level before making a big-money move to a European giant.