outcastreturns

The FA Cup is fine on its own. We don't need the EFL Cup too. Most clubs priorities the FA Cup way more, it's a more prestigious prize and the tournament has way more fixtures. Clubs also prioritise league matches over the EFL Cup anyway, so the EFL just adds to the fixture congestion of a lot of teams. Players are getting injured across every team anyway.

During a busy fixture schedule, clubs have to put together a team to play in the EFL cup midweek whilst trying to save their best players for the important league match 3 days later, but also trying not to get humiliated too badly in a Cup game that most teams don't really care too much about.

Who's the best in their prime? In what order?

Incredibly unlikely to do it playing in the Premier League, but at Real Madrid playing in La Liga or at Bayern Munich back in the Bundesliga, could Haaland give it a good go at breaking Messi's ridiculous 2012 record?

Realistically he'd have to score 50+ league goals, 10-15+ UCL goals, 10-15+ National team goals and 20+ in other competitions... But if Norway were to have a good euro / world cup qualifiers and Haaland's future club had a pretty good league, domestic cup and UCL campaign like Barca did in 2012, is it possible?