The fight for the Golden Shoe is in full swing…

Each striker “feeds” on the goals he gives to the opposing defense, with the goals ultimately bringing teams victories and trophies. For this reason, the highest paid footballers in the world are strikers and are the only ones who receive a separate award for their performance in a specific statistical category.

The Golden Shoe It is the ultimate and undeniable proof of how “hot” a striker is every season. This award was created by the French magazine France Football in the 1967/1968 season and has since been given to the player who has scored the most goals in European leagues, using a points system that assesses the difficulty of each league.

The top 5 in Europe (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1) rate each goal with 2 points, while the rest, determined according to the annual UEFA rankings, give 1.5 or 1 point for each goal.

Harry Kane: The big favorite

The England international started the year with “broken brakes”. He has already surpassed last year’s top scorers BundesligaChristopher Nkuku and Niklas Filkring, who scored 16 times 17 goals In 11 games he is the big favorite to win Golden Shoe.

He scored in 16 appearances for Bayern Munich 21 goalsbehind Robert Lewandowski and Gerd Miller, who hold the record for most goals (41) in a season with Bayern.

At the same time, it is the main reason why Bayern are in first place in the statistical category of both countries xGoals with 32.4as well as in the goals (42) among the teams in the top 5 leagues.

Erling Haaland: The Norwegian battleship

His owner Golden Shoe With 36 goals in 35 appearances in the 2022/2023 season, he could ensure that Kane takes the lead, but he too is having another season where he scores the goal with great ease, as in 12 appearances for Manchester City in Premier Leaguecounts 13 goals.

Given that the world’s top league has 4 games more than the Bundesliga, 40 to 36, Erling Haaland remains – still – a force to be reckoned with behind Harry Kane.

Kylian Mbappe: Reborn and a leader

Kylian Mbappe is the undisputed leader of the next day for the Parisians, because the new project of Paris Saint-Germain has the Frenchman in the foreground and next to him aspiring footballers thirsty for awards.

That seems to be working to his advantage so far for the 24-year-old, who appears freer in his preferred position, as a left winger who converges by testing his powerful right foot or playing on the line and taking advantage of his speed and dribbling ability .

So the balance after 11 games with the Paris jersey Ligue 1 Is 13 goals and 1 assist, while his hat-trick against Reims made him the most capped player in the French league in the new millennium 8thleaving only Zlatan Ibrahimovic in second place with 7.

Lautaro Martines: The captain Inter have been looking for for years

Although he is by no means considered the successor to Javier Zanetti, both in terms of the competitive offering and the substance, he is Lautaro Martines he is the first real leader of the Milan organization after Argentine legend.

With his performances last year (2022/2023), he led Inter to their first Champions League final since the treble in the 2009/2010 season, while in 2020/2021 he was also one of the main reasons for the Italian team’s return to the top her Series A after the 10-year drought.

This year he fully justifies his decision to turn a deaf ear to the Sirens transfer and safely leads Simeone Inzaghi’s armada to another Scudetto 12 goals in the same number of games.

She may not be the epitome of a passionate performer, like most of the goals she has achieved with her Inter He was in the league last year and the year before at 21, but given the great season he is having, it cannot be ruled out that he will put a stop to his claim Golden Shoe.

Jude Bellingham: The child prodigy plays a new role

The player who decides the big games and gives Real Madrid three points with his goals in the last minutes of the games. The “cold-blooded” man and his performances since the start of the season are crucial to the fact that the “Queen” is in the “16” of the competition from matchday 4 of the Champions League and is there LaLiga with -2 from leaders Girona.

Eleven games in the Spanish league were enough for Jude Bellingham to show his great talent in a position between 8 and 10, while he often moved up to the second striker position. The epitome of the modern footballer that every coach wants in his squad.

The England star has had a career season, as evidenced by his incredible numbers, particularly in goal scoring. After 11 games in La Liga the time has come 10 goals and 2 assists, being named “Most Valuable Player” eight times in Merengues games.

The only thing that is certain is when he will be president RealFlorentino Perez rubs his hands in satisfaction at his decision to make him a resident of Madrid in the summer of 2023, the football world rubs its eyes at what the 20-year-old midfielder presents on the pitch.

Although it is difficult to unlikely to win at the end of the 2023/2024 season Golden ShoeBut no one can deny him the right to dream of reaching the top of the world Title of the best goalscorer in Europe.