Chelsea’s No.19 is enjoying his best-ever campaign in the English top flight, highlighting the progression he has made since making his debut for the club in 2019.

Having registered seven goals and five assists in his first season and followed that up with six and five in 2020/21, he now stands on the brink of an achievement that not too many players achieve.

This term, Mo Salah is currently the only player who has surpassed 10 for both goals and assists in the Premier League, although a few can still join him in that club. Mount is leading the way, having already reached the requisite number of goals, while he is only one assist away. Whatever happens from here, both figures are seasonal bests for our popular midfielder.

Of more relevance to Chelsea fans reading this article is which players have previously done ‘the double double’ while representing west London’s finest. Read on to find out who has done it and why it would be such a big achievement for Mount to join them…

Eden Hazard

Although we are talking about an all-time great, both in terms of Chelsea and English football in general, it might surprise you that the brilliant Belgian, who was the last Blue to ‘double up’, only managed to achieve the feat once.

That is largely due to the fact that despite almost exclusively featuring as a No.10 or out wide, positions from which you would expect a player to record more assists than goals, he was more often than not the man sticking the ball in the back of the net rather than teeing up a team-mate.

He was a regular double figures man for goals, doing so five times in his seven seasons, but he only passed 10 assists twice. The first time was in 2012/13, his maiden campaign when he was named PFA Young Player of the Year, but nine goals just wasn’t quite enough. He made up for it in 2018/19, his final year as a Blue, when he scored 16 times and assisted 15 to sign off his time at the club in some style.

Juan Mata

Like the man we have just written about, who it was a pleasure to see him play alongside for 18 months, Mata is probably regarded as a giver rather than a taker. The highlight reel of his 11 years in the Premier League, the majority of which have been spent with Manchester United, would surely be made up of intricate passes and precise cut-backs to set up the grateful centre-forwards he has played alongside. Right?

You might be surprised to hear, then, that his overall tally of goals and assists in the English top flight are extremely close: 52 scored, 54 laid on. That trend was set in his second campaign at Chelsea, in 2012/13, when he scored 12 and assisted as many to add his name to the double club, having only managed half that tally of goals in his first term as a Blue.

To be fair, when you look back at some of his strikes it should not actually come as too much of a surprise. Whether in open play or from a set-piece, inside the box or out, Mata’s technique was impeccable.

Didier Drogba

Before the diminutive duo of Mata and Hazard added their names to his group, previously there were only two men on the list – and, let’s be honest here, you will not be surprised about the identity of either of them, as they are both up there among the very best to do it for Chelsea.

Drogba, who for a long time was the only African player to score 100 goals in the Premier League, helped us to four league titles across his two spells as a Blue, and he did it with more than just goals and assists, as his ability to hold the ball up and bring his team-mates into play helped redefine what teams expected from a lone striker.

However, it certainly helped when he could register his fair share in both columns. He hit double figures for goals in five of his nine seasons at the club, and in three of those campaigns he also managed to do the same for assists.

In both 2005/06 and 2010/11, it was a fairly even split – narrowly ahead in the goals column of the former, then the same for assists in the latter. Neither could compare to 2009/10, when he produced one of the all-time great individual seasons in the history of the competition.

Not content with banging in 29 goals, which was enough to secure his second Premier League Golden Boot award, the Ivorian also set up his team-mates 10 times. As we scored a then-record 103 goals, that meant he was involved in more than a third of our goals across the campaign. Not bad going…

Frank Lampard

Another third of our goals that season came from the final name on this list, a player who was not only the first to double up for Chelsea, but the man who did it most often, too. Try and disguise your shock if you can…

You have heard it all before about Lampard being the ultimate goalscoring midfielder but let the stats back it up – for 10 seasons in a row, between 2003 and 2013, he scored 10 or more goals in a Premier League season. How’s that for consistency?

Somewhat surprisingly, though, in only four of those campaigns did he manage to hit double figures for assists. The first was in 2004/05, when he scored 13 times and assisted 18 as we won the title for the first time. Not many have surpassed that tally of 18 assists, by the way.

He did it again in 2006/07 and 2008/09, two impressive individual campaigns but without the team glory Lamps craved. But then he put that right in 2009/10, as he joined Drogba as one half of the most devastating pairings in the Premier League at that time. A mighty 22 goals and 14 assists made for 36 goal involvements that season, three shy of his team-mate, as we won the title and the FA Cup.

It is also apt, considering their ability to both score and assist at will, that Drogba to Lampard, and vice versa, was for a long time the most prolific double act until they were recently surpassed by Tottenham's Son Heung-Min and Harry Kane.