Kylian Mbappe is willing to follow in Cristiano Ronaldo's footsteps. His determination is to follow his own path, but his goalscoring streak forces comparisons because he maintains an average of more than one goal per game as the Portuguese did in white. His latest exhibition, this time with a brace at San Mames, confirms that he is the most in-form player in the world right now.

This season he has 30 goals and seven assists in 24 games between Real Madrid (25 goals and four assists) and the French national team (five and three).

The former PSG player is also enjoying the best start to a campaign of his already long career. Together with the fact that last season he exploded with Ancelotti from January onwards, Kylian is threatening one of CR7's best records at Madrid. In 2025, the Frenchman could surpass the Portuguese as the top scorer in the club's history in a calendar year. The ceiling was set by Cristiano with his 59 goals in 2013.

It will not be easy, but given his average, it is very feasible to think that the Frenchman could become the player with the most goals in the history of the white club in a calendar year before the end of the year.Mbappe, after his brace at San Mames, now has 55 goals since the start of 2025 in 55 games, but he still has five games left to equal or surpass him if he scores five more goals. Celta at the Bernabeu, City again at home, Alaves away and finally Sevilla at the Bernabeu, plus a fifth Copa del Rey match that will come from the draw on December 9 and in which Madrid will already be involved to play a week later.

What stands out most about Mbappe's 2025 is not just the goals, but the fact that he has scored them in 55 games, counting the match at San Mames, at one goal per game. Cristiano holds almost all the goalscoring records in a calendar year at Madrid. Mbappe has already surpassed CR7 in the 46 goals of 2010, 42 of 2016, 41 of 2017 and 44 of 2018. He equals the record in 2011 of the Portuguese, who scored 54 in 2015, 56 in 2014 and 58 in 2012.

It is already his highest scoring calendar year

Overall, the last Golden Boot winner (he also leads the current standings ahead of Haaland) and Pichichi is about to close his most prolific year since he made his debut 10 years ago at Monaco. He is very close to closing it at a goal per game or even above. Adding the seven he has scored with his national team, he has 62 in 62 games, one goal per game. His second best record in a year is from 2022, with 56 goals (44 with PSG and 12 with France) in 56 games, also at a goal per game.