Fifty career hat-tricks turns a feat most stars manage once or twice into something approaching routine, underscoring a scoring level few eras have ever seen. Adding ten more since already reaching forty shows how quickly he kept stretching the limits of what a forward can produce.

Six hundred and fifty career goals is territory almost no footballer even dreams of reaching, and he arrived there just 50 strikes after an already absurd 600-mark. At this pace, each new hundred stopped feeling like a milestone and more like a running tally in a one-man era of scoring.