Should penalties count towards your goal record?
The goal machines who have graced the Premier League would tell you yes - they all count.
Not that Alan Shearer would mind. He scored 260 Premier League goals during his spells at Newcastle and Blackburn.
Mohamed Salah is the only current player who is anywhere near the greatest goal scorer the league has ever seen.
The Liverpool winger has 187 strikes to his name, but is in a race against time to overtake Shearer.
Sitting in joint-fourth in the standings, Salah, who has just two years left on his deal at Anfield, needs to find the back of the net on 74 more occasions to go top.
How close is Harry Kane to Alan Shearer's goal tally?
Harry Kane, sitting second in the list, was on course to shatter Shearer's record having fired in 213 goals for Tottenham.
But he departed for Bayern Munich in 2023, where he has kept scoring and not a week goes by where he has not recorded a unique first.
There remains every chance the 32-year-old could still eclipse Shearer's tally should he seal an emotional return to north London in the future.
Should penalties count on a goal record?
That is the question talkSPORT's Drive show is asking. So who comes out on top of the goalscoring standings if penalties are removed?
Frank Lampard has the biggest drop, moving from seventh in the list to outside the top ten, with 43 of his 177 strikes coming from the spot.
Here, talkSPORT.com has taken a look at the Premier League's top ten scorers if spot kicks are removed from the history books.
The Liverpool icon scored 118 goals for the Reds during his two spells.
A fan favourite wherever he went, he was also on target for Leeds and Manchester City.
Fowler slotted home 17 Premier League penalties during his time spent in England's top-flight.
A Tottenham icon, Defoe scored 143 goals for the club across his two spells at White Hart Lane.
But he didn't have the best of luck from 12 yards out for Spurs, with just four out of his nine Premier League penalties crossing the line.
During his 12 months at Portsmouth, he banged in four out of his five attempts from the spot.
While he scored six penalties on Sunderland's books without missing a single one.
Remarkably, the 58-year-old never took a single penalty throughout his career in normal time.
As such, he has jumped from 12th in the list to eighth - replacing Lampard in the top ten.
Ferdinand struck 60 times in QPR's colours, with 41 goals coming from his 68 outings for Newcastle, while he also banged in for Spurs, West Ham, Leicester and Bolton.
Discussing his decision to take no penalties, Ferdinand said: "To be honest with you, the truth is if I’d have said, ‘I want to take them,' I don’t think anyone would have stopped me.
"But then I had that (thought), ‘I’m going to go through my career without taking a penalty and see how many goals I’m going to score.'
"That’s what I thought back then. But do you know what? I regret it.”
Henry spent the entirety of his Premier League career at Arsenal, spread across two spells.
The Frenchman remains the club's all-time top scorer with 228 goals in all competitions.
Widely regarded as the best player in Premier League history, Henry spearheaded the Gunners to top-flight glory in 2002 and 2004.
He scored 23 league penalties, with his most famous coming on the final day of the 2003/04 campaign.
Arsenal - already champions - went into the match needing just a draw against relegated Leicester to become the first side since Preston in 1899 to go a whole season unbeaten.
But the unthinkable happened after Paul Dickov broke the deadlock on his return to Highbury, before Henry equalised from the spot with Patrick Vieira scoring an eventual winner to seal Arsenal's place in history.
Shipped out by Chelsea after just 19 games, few would have expected Salah to reach the heights he had upon his return to England in 2017.
No other foreign player has scored more goals in the Premier League than the former Roma forward.
A penalty specialist, Salah has banged in 34 of the 40 he has taken in the division.
Only two players have scored more spot-kicks in the Premier League.
Last season, he converted nine penalties as his strikes helped the Reds claim a second league title in five years.
The Manchester City hero spent ten years at the Etihad, where he departed having scored 260 goals in 390 games in all competitions.
A five-time Premier League winner, he is the club's all-time scorer.
Meanwhile, no-one in Premier League history has fired in more hat-tricks than Aguero's 12.
He also holds the honour of being the only player to find the back of the net at least four times in a single match on three separate occasions.
And he proved to be an established penalty taker - scoring 27 out of his 33 attempts.
The England skipper missed just four of his 37 Premier League penalties.
No player in Premier League history has scored more goals for a single club than Kane.
One of the greatest penalty takers of the 21st century, only Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazilian forward Hulk have scored more than Kane.
In total, Kane has scored 90 times from 12 yards out across all competitions for club and country.
His recent miss in Bayern's DFB-Pokal first round win against Wehen Wiesbaden was the first time he wasn't successful from the spot since blazing over against France at the 2022 World Cup.
Rooney didn't have the best record from the penalty spot in the top-flight.
At Manchester United, Rooney scored 20 out of his 28 Premier League spot-kicks.
While in his second spell at Everton, he scored just three out of his six penalties during the 2017/18 campaign.
Out of the top ten players in the non-penalty goals list, Rooney boasts the lowest conversion rate at 68 per cent.
Though ironically, in each of the 13 matches in all competitions that Rooney missed a penalty in, he still found himself on the winning team.
A five-time Premier League champion with United, Cole took just two penalties during his career.
He missed his first while on Newcastle's books in the 0-0 draw against Coventry in December 1994.
Cole had to wait over ten years to finally make amends - doing so for Fulham in the Cottagers' 2-1 victory at Birmingham in January 2005.
Discussing why he chose against taking penalties in 2022, Cole said: "I wanted to score goals in open play, I genuinely said that to myself.
"If I didn't think I could do that, I don't think I'd be good enough, that was a simple way to look at it. You can say that's arrogant but I'm not arrogant.
"Football is played in open play and to have a penalty, I suppose it's that simple, if you can't score goals in open play, you're not good enough to play at the elite level. That is the way I looked at it, even more so now, and I'm proud of my record."
Once again, it is Shearer who comes out on top.
With 56 penalties, no player has scored more than the Toon legend in the Premier League.
He is also the only footballer to score at least a century of Premier League goals for two different clubs.
Shearer scored 112 times for Blackburn between 1992-1996 - helping Rovers win the title in 1995 - their first league triumph in 81 years.
A then-world-record £15million move to boyhood club Newcastle followed in 1996, where he banged in 148 goals in 303 appearances.
And while he failed to win any major honours at St James' Park, he has left a lasting legacy that no player is yet to eclipse.