Arne Slot sits one point short of a milestone no Liverpool manager has yet reached so quickly in the club’s top flight. After 43 Premier League games, Slot has accumulated 99 points and needs a single point from Saturday’s trip to Crystal Palace to reach 100.

Reaching a century of points at such speed would rewrite the club record table. Historic benchmarks show Kenny Dalglish reached 100 points in 48 games, David Ashworth did so in 56, and Jürgen Klopp, Bob Paisley and Joe Fagan each reached the mark in 57 games. Slot’s current total after 43 games places him within striking distance of that fastest-to-100 figure and gives him several fixtures in which to secure the final point.

Kenny Dalglish reached 100 points for Liverpool in 48 games, meaning Slot needs just one draw from upcoming games against Palace, Chelsea, Manchester United and Brentford to make the record his own. A single draw would be enough to eclipse Dalglish’s benchmark and set a new standard for the club in the Premier League era.

Klopp’s own landmark came in a different context. The former manager reached 100 points in 57 games but later claimed the fastest to 300 points record from Dalglish, doing so in 146 games compared to Dalglish’s 150. Slot’s early return to Liverpool suggests he is on track to challenge such long-term records as well.

Slot’s managerial record before joining Liverpool offers context for his current form. During his time with Feyenoord, he accumulated 307 points across 135 Eredivisie games. That haul produced one league title in 2022–23, a success he matched in the Premier League in just one year at Liverpool. The immediate target now is modest: secure one point and become Liverpool’s quickest manager to reach 100 Premier League points.

Scoring 100 goals for a single club is a rare milestone at Manchester United and Bruno Fernandes has now joined that select group. The Portuguese captain reached his century despite a difficult period for the club, moving past the likes of David Beckham, Eric Cantona and Dwight Yorke in United’s goalscoring charts. Eighteen players still sit ahead of him.

Marcus Rashford is the only current United player among the centurions, although he is currently on loan at Barcelona and looks unlikely to play for the Red Devils again. Rashford has scored 138 goals for his boyhood club and is 13th on the all-time list, ahead of centurions Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Andy Cole and Brian McClair.

Tommy Taylor holds the best goals-per-game ratio among the hundred-goal scorers with 0.69 strikes per outing. David Herd managed 143 goals in 261 matches, while Ruud van Nistelrooy produced 150 goals in 219 appearances, 149 of which came from inside the penalty box. Cristiano Ronaldo sits between those two with 145 goals across two spells; it took him 346 matches to reach his century.

Longevity helped both Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs climb into the century club. Scholes, a midfielder, finished with 155 goals in 716 games and reached his 100th against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in March 2010. Giggs amassed 168 goals in 963 appearances, placing him seventh in the club’s list.

Several of United’s historical forwards occupy the top positions. Dennis Viollet scored 173 goals in 284 outings, Jack Rowley managed 190, George Best 179 and Denis Law 243 in 405 matches. Bobby Charlton sits second with 245 goals in 746 appearances. Wayne Rooney tops the list, with 253 goals across 559 appearances.

The club’s century-makers range from midfielders and long-serving icons to prolific strikers, illustrating different routes to triple figures at Old Trafford. Fernandes’s inclusion continues a tradition that spans the club’s most celebrated eras.

Bruno Fernandes has been a constant figure at Manchester United since his arrival from Sporting CP in early 2020. He has shouldered responsibility through highs and lows and is now the 28th United player to reach 200 Premier League appearances for the club.

Statistically Fernandes presents a mixed profile. He has 64 Premier League goals, 22 of which came from the penalty spot, and 51 assists from 196 starts and 17,294 minutes. That output places him ahead of Paul Scholes (47 goals, 26 assists, 148 starts, 13,369 minutes) and David Beckham (44 goals, 62 assists, 183 starts, 16,452 minutes) through their first 200 league outings for United.

Paul Scholes once said Fernandes was “better” than him, while David Beckham argued United would be foolish to sell their “exceptional” captain ahead of the 2025 summer transfer window. Those endorsements underline how Fernandes is viewed by two of the club’s outstanding former midfielders.

There are stylistic contrasts. Fernandes is a long-range striker of the ball and a varied creator, but his goal returns include a significant proportion from penalties and his shooting frequency can feel inefficient. Scholes began as a box-crasher who later evolved into a deep-lying controller; 52 of his first 200 Premier League appearances came off the bench. Beckham typically started wide right in Ferguson’s 4-4-2 and excelled at set-pieces, with ten of his 44 goals after 200 appearances from direct free-kicks and a remarkable delivery that benefited teammates such as Andy Cole, Teddy Sheringham and Dwight Yorke.

On honours there is a clear gap. By the time Beckham reached 200 appearances he had been part of four title-winning campaigns and Scholes had contributed to five. The pair also won the FA Cup twice and lifted European glory in 1999. Fernandes has led teams that finished second and third in the Premier League, has an FA Cup and League Cup, and has twice fallen short in Europa League opportunities, including criticism following the defeat to Tottenham in Bilbao.

The numbers show Fernandes competing with, and in some metrics bettering, Beckham and Scholes. The English duo, however, remain ahead on collective silverware.