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Aguero Leaves City This Summer: How He Impacted The PL With His Staggering Scoring Stats To Become A PL Great
Argentine striker, Sergio Kun Aguero is set to leave Manchester City this summer after spending 10 seasons at the Etihad Stadium.
The 32-year old player, joined Man City from Aletico in 2011 and went on become the club’s all time goalscorer with 257 goals in 384 games since.
Well, as a club legend, Manchester City are preparing to build a statue to honor the departing Aguero a Premier League icon.
This is the man who scored the competition’s most famous goal. This is the man who has scored more Premier League goals than any other overseas player.
If Aguero had stayed in English football for only one season then his place in folklore would still be assured.
That goal against Queens Park Rangers that snatched the title back from rivals Manchester United is destined to be replayed for as long as the game is played.
But that was Premier League goal number 23 of 181 – and counting. He has helped deliver three more titles for Manchester City with a fourth on the way.
While others have shown fleeting glimpses of their brilliance, he has sustained it for almost a decade now.
Here are the numbers. Aguero has not just outscored every other player since his Premier League debut, it is not particularly close.
Harry Kane is 21 behind him with 160 of his own but the next man on the list after him is Jamie Vardy – some 66 goals adrift of the Argentine.
In that period, Aguero has scored 12 hat-tricks, which is four more than Kane, double that of Luis Suarez and triple that of anyone else in the past 10 years of Premier League football.
If these statistics are slightly skewed by the time-frame, one that encompasses his entire Manchester City career while others have emerged more recently, consider Aguero’s strike rate compared to his rivals. That shows he has not only scored more but more frequently.
Aguero has scored his 181 Premier League goals at a rate of one every 108 minutes. Again, Kane comes closest to matching that, scoring once every 122 minutes, but nobody can really compete.
By any metric, he is the competition’s outstanding striker of the last decade.
There are typical Aguero goals. The dart to the near post. The curled effort into the far corner.
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But such is his longevity that it is impossible to pin him down to a handful of finishes.
Kun Aguero to leave ManCity in 2020/21
Few would think Aguero boasts one of the great left foots in Premier League history and yet he has found the net 34 times with it, putting him among the top 10 left-footed scorers since making that sensational two-goal debut against Swansea in August 2011.
That game featured an outrageous strike from 30 yards. Twenty more from outside the box have followed since then with only Christian Eriksen scoring more in that time.
As for headers, despite being 5’8″, he is among the top half a dozen scorers of headed goals during his time in England too – and the five men above him have an average height of 6’4″.
There was no knowing that he would last so long. As with other big names who arrived at the Etihad Stadium at that time, the assumption was that he would just be passing through.
But while the language did not come easily, he made himself at home on the pitch.
The arrival of Pep Guardiola at what has turned out to be the exact midpoint of his Manchester City career was a boost for the club but also a challenge for the star striker.
There were doubts over his ability to adapt himself to the demands of the new coach.
He could have walked away as a club legend even then. Instead he elevated his status still further, showing his value by hitting the 20-goal mark in each of Guardiola’s first three seasons in charge. Aguero was City’s top scorer in their back-to-back title wins.
Now 32, the news of his impending departure instantly takes on an air of inevitability given that injury and illness has curtailed his influence at the club over the past year.
And yet, any sense of decline is relatively recent. Indeed, Aguero looked on course for his best-ever scoring season upon netting the winner against Sheffield United in January of last year – that was his 16th Premier League goal of the campaign, just one behind Vardy.
But another injury setback ended his momentum and his recent penalty against Fulham is his only Premier League goal since that day. City have been winning without him.
In fact, there is a feeling that the team has evolved away from him in his absence with reports that Aguero was left frustrated that their ever more patient build-up meant that team-mates were rarely passing the ball to him on his return.
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- The stats show that over the past two seasons, Aguero’s number of touches per 90 minutes have been down on previous levels. Perhaps this is the right time to move on.
- But he will leave as a legend and with his place assured in Manchester City – and Premier League – history. The hope is that fans will be allowed into the stadium to bid farewell.
- But, Aguero being Aguero, do not be surprised if these final few months prove to be more than a mere nostalgia tour. City are favourites to win the Champions League, the one trophy that has eluded him throughout his extraordinary journey with the club.
What price one more big goal to bow out in style?
He has form for it, after all.
Manchester United assessing potential Erik ten Hag replacements 👀 Mark Ogden shares details with SportsFila.
The fact that Southgate is on that list tells how serious you should take it
No manager on earth could do anything with Manchester United until Someone takes responsibility for the club and has a viable plan for the future.
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his INEOS group, the club’s new partial owners, are exploring options to assume the role. According to Team Talk, the Red Devils are considering the 41-year-old as a candidate for the manager position.
After achieving success as a player with Barcelona, Inter, and Paris Saint-Germain, winning numerous titles, the two-time Champions League winner transitioned to coaching at the senior level.
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ESPN loves ManUtd. As much they say that they hate talking about ManUtd they can’t stop talking about ManUtd 😅😅. They have spend 15 mins speaking on rumours – Hypocrites.
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It’s not Ten Hag fault when players like rashford do not put in all the effort after signing a new contract. Also ten hag had to deal with incredible amount of injuries which ESPN deliberately overlooks. So getting another manager isn’t going to solve anything.
It’s so funny how the English media fails to realize that the structure & the players is the problem at united…..but they trying to sack ETH who is an elite manger under a proper management structure 💯
The best manager that seems to be being overlooked shouod be n1 on the list for bayern utd liverpool is someone inzaghi. Hes done great things with Lazio and inter. Loads of experience and has got to european finals and won domestic leagues.
Manchester City 3-1 win over United in Manchester Derby.
It is very different getting an underdog /dark horse to perform vs going to an environment where the spotlight in on you everyday from day 1. The same thing happened at Bayern with a couple of their coaches…
Afcon 2024 victory is well deserved for Ivory Coast they left no stone unturned and they dominated throughout. If there is a one person who deserved to win the AFCON it was Sebastian Haller. In 2022, he was diagnosed with cancer but he recovered and he returned to play football in 2023 only to bottle the Bundesliga title on the final matchday to Bayern but here we are in 2024 where he scored the winner in the AFCON final to win Cote d’Ivoire AFCON title so congratulations🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🏆
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FT: Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast
But Ivory Coast won fair and square. They played better. Congratulations champs.
What Adingra did in the African Cup of Nation was phenomenal. Nigerians will remember him as a nighmare forever. The boy has a great future ahead of him.
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Haller beats cancer, then comes to the AFCON and scores the most important goal in the final, the winning goal what a beautiful story for that man and Ivory coast, congratulations to them👏👏
Congratulations to Ivory Coast from cameroonian👏👏👏you organized and won the most beautiful AFCON in story, unbelievable achievment when we look how things went for you.
One of the best tournaments I’ve seen.
Almost every team demonstrated that they were not afraid of their opponent and played above expectations.
Congratulations to Côte d’Ivoire who never gave up and believed and implemented their progress towards goal as much as possible until the last second in this tournament. Kudos to Nigeria for high yield and quality.
Thank you for making the spectators so emotional and congratulations and best wishes to the Ivory Coast and the Ivorian people.
FT: Nigeria 1-2 Ivory Coast
Afcon 2023 is over. What a remarkable end to a tournament dripping in drama.
Thanks for your company.
The night has only just started in Abidjan.
Congratulations to Ivory Coast for winning the Africa Cup🏆! The team showed strength and desire to win and to not give up until the end. And the fans were absolutely amazing
P.s Haller deserved it the most, since he suffered a lot.
The story of Côte d’Ivoire’s victory in the African Nations is one of the most beautiful stories in the history of football. We sympathized with this team’s version a lot and we will tell it to our children in the future 🧡
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‘He’s very coachable, he wants to learn, to improve every day’ |SportsFila can feel the meaning of a ‘coachable player that wants to improve every day’. Because ETH has to deal with players that are not like this at all.
remember at Ajax TH once said “a process takes time, but by throwing in young players in big games that process gets accelerated”. Always stuck with me considering he let Mainoo debut against Everton (after the 10 point deduction at an intense Goodison Park) and then straight into the Galatasaray away game in the CL. H
He also has done the same with Garnacho last year and this year. Then he did the same with Pellistri against Bayern Munich who in my opinion did well enough to deserve another chance. I think it’s a way for him to see how they respond to the pressure and intensity. He’s not afraid to play the youngsters ONLY if he considers them good and fearless enough.
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He made De Ligt Ajax captain at 18 years old because he saw leadership qualities. He has his own methods, but I’m convinced he knows exactly what he’s doing regarding the future of United. United fans need to remember 75% of this current squad won’t be part of the future so maybe allow him a bit more time to show what he’s trying to build.
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ETH is a highly resillient manager to go through all the crisis and egos, poor performances, players personal issues and ownership drama and come out on the other side with these kind of performances. He brought in the right striker young full of potential and work ethic. Young players are starring in the squad WE ARE ON THE WAY.
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All the instability across the club that he’s gone through and still kept us in the Top 8. Now he’s finally seeing the other side of the drawn-out “club sale, no-sale”, multiple injuries, media controversies, spoiled players, and all the other nonsense, we see the team moving into sixth position. The man deserves all the praise in the world for being so resilient.
It’s interesting hearing ten hag speaking on rashford because he mentions a lot of qualities which he possesses, however they are all physical and technical, the one thing he didn’t speak positively about was his mentality and for me this is what has always separated Rashford from the very best.
In football and sport as a whole mentality is the one thing you need more than anything, it’s what separates the good from the great and I don’t know if rashford has that real hunger and desire in him to be great. The kind of desire where you’re willing to get hurt to score a goal.
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