Fifty goals in a single season turns an elite scorer’s year into something closer to a video game, a benchmark only a handful of players in history have ever touched. Hitting that mark again shows the first time wasn’t a peak, but a standard he could sustain.

Five hundred goals for a single team is a number that belongs more to mythology than to modern football, and he reached it while others were still chasing half that total. From 400 to 500 came so quickly that the question stopped being how high he could climb and became whether anyone would ever get close.