Can anyone break Alan Shearer's Premier League goals record?

Alan Shearer scored his 260th and final Premier League goal for Newcastle against Sunderland on 17 April 2006.

In the 13 years since, no player has come within 50 goals of this record tally for the competition.

But there are currently a small crop of attacking players with aspirations of claiming Shearer's crown, led by Sergio Aguero and including established goalscorers such as Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku and Mohamed Salah.

Here, BBC Sport does the analysis to see if any of these players are capable of breaking the record and, if so, what more they have to do to surpass one of the Premier League's most iconic milestones.

Shearer's goals

Shearer's total of 260 is particularly impressive, given that it does not include the 23 goals he scored for Southampton in the old First Division, before it was rebranded as the Premier League in 1992.

Those 260 goals were amassed over 14 Premier League seasons, in 441 games. This equates to a goal every 1.67 games and an average of 18.57 goals a campaign.

An injury picked up 10 minutes after scoring his last goal - from the penalty spot at the Stadium of Light - would ultimately bring his career to an end, at the age of 35.Shearer began his career with Southampton but joined Blackburn for a then British record £3.3m deal before the very first Premier League season in 1992-93, then joined hometown club Newcastle in 1996, this time for what was a world record fee of £15m.

Shearer's Premier League goals by club
Club	Years	Games	Goals
Blackburn	1992-1996	138	112
Newcastle	1996-2006	303	148

But how do Shearer's goals break down across his 14 seasons and how do the current tallies of the leading candidates looking to emulate him stack up?