Ronaldo, Salah, Aguero: The PL player with the best mins-per-goal record in every year since 2000

Recently, we decided to go a bit rogue and worked out the player with the best minutes-per-goal record in every single year of the 21st century.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi both featured on multiple occasions, but much to our delight, they weren’t totally dominant like they usually are and a few surprise names cropped up – including Freiburg’s Nils Petersen.

So with that in mind, we decided to follow the same concept to work out the Premier League player with the best minutes-per-goal record in each year since 2000 and once again, there are a few shocks.

All the numbers below have been sourced from Transfermarkt. Only players who scored 10 or more goals for a team in the English top-flight were considered for selection.

Let’s begin…

17 goals | 130 mins-per-goal

27 goals | 103 mins-per-goal

35 goals | 114 mins-per-goal

43 goals | 102 mins-per-goal

43 goals | 108 mins-per-goal

23 goals | 124 mins-per-goal

13 goals | 112 mins-per-goal

25 goals | 114 mins-per-goal

33 goals | 119 mins-per-goal

19 goals | 116 mins-per-goal

28 goals | 119 mins-per-goal

42 goals | 94 mins-per-goal

33 goals | 119 mins-per-goal

33 goals | 88 mins-per-goal

28 goals | 79 mins-per-goal

14 goals | 118 mins-per-goal

16 goals | 103 mins-per-goal

49 goals | 79 mins-per-goal

28 goals | 98 mins-per-goal

33 goals | 91 mins-per-goal

18 goals | 95 mins-per-goal

37 goals | 121 mins-per-goal

Ighalo and Iheanacho? You better believe it!

Aguero has the prestigious honour of being the only man to feature on three separate occasions, which is further proof of just how absurdly good he was in his prime.

Van Nistelrooy, Henry and Van Persie all make the cut twice, while Kane and Aguero are tied in the battle for the best minutes-per-goal record over the course