Sergio Agüero

What if City had managed to spend that £90m on kaka?

veron was a fucking great player, i think i'd forgotten how good when he moved to ynahtid

probably about the same level as aguero

Close call that. Like Barca missing out on Beckham and settling for Ronaldinho(if that's what happened)
xp to ismael

Eventually one of these great players will have a reasonable career in England.

Tevez, though he's done everything possible to obscure the fact.

first time the epl has bought a legit world superstar?

― CH3C(O)N(CH3)2 (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:43 (2 days ago)

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Overmars, Kluivert, Shevchenko, Gullit, Yaya, Barthez all CL winning superstars. Klinsmann, Robinho and Silva had played in a WC winning team, Gullit/Klinsmann/Pires/Silva/Schmiechal in a Euro winning team. Shevchenko had won Ballon D'Or. Ok he didn't have a great season before he left AC but it was still Shevchenko and people were still going ape shit. Also Crespo and Ballack not to be frowned upon. Most of these names didn't have great times in the Premiership, and may actually be a large part of the 'foreigners don't adapt well' myth but they were all legit world superstars.

But yeah super excited to watch this dude. Shame he had to go to a Mancini side but when he is fired in November and they hopefully get a manager whose tactics are worth watching, a team with him as the spearhead has real potential.

Sorry Barthez (and Blanc! and Desially! and Thierry I guess) won the World Cup, not the CL. Although Desailly may have, I think! And Wiltord also won the Euro before being signed and although he came with a big reputation, wasn't a legit star. (See also: Malouda.)

crespo and ballack better at time of move and bigger names than probably all of yr other entries there, tbh, save maybe jurgen.

The others were either past it, not there yet, or decidedly unglamourous/bit-part names in high-achieving teams.

I mean, wiltord? Schmeichel? You can't make a serious parallel here.

I think what Aguero is saying upthread is "I like to mix it up, I like to do stuff".

haha Can see the headline now "KUN SMANGS IT!!"

de jong, kompany, and micah richards(!) apparently not happy about Kun's contract. maybe this team will collapse before they even play a game.

Good luck any of 'em matching their current contracts elsewhere. Off you go.

amen

Valencia is apparently going to be fit for the start of the season btw. Which is nice

De Jong, a star performer in manager Roberto Mancini’s midfield last season alongside Yaya Toure, who earns £200,000 a week, was believed to have been offered £80,000 a week.

Kompany and Richards also feel undervalued by their big-spending club.

Richards has been offered a five-year deal worth £65,000 a week while Kompany has been told to expect a four-year deal worth £80,000 a week. However, the pair are mulling over the offers.

richards and de jong are cunts but kompany is probably the second or third best cb in the league

Micah Richards is basically kept around as some link-to-the-past John Prescott figure by now isn't he?

agreed, at citeh he's prob undervalued at less than 100k, i like the other two but at that money they're doing well.

the best foreign player to arrive in england....none of bergkamp, henry, c ronaldo, rvn, drogba, torres etc were this good when they were sold to english sides

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 22:28 (2 years ago)

ozil is probably at a slightly higher level now than aguero was when he joined city, but only because he is two years older

rn they are at about the same level

He hasn't had quite the impact on the epl like those players you mention did. There's time yet though.

none of those were as good as aguero at 25, except ronaldo who had left england at that point

thierry henry going into 02/03 was probably about the same

aguero forcing his way past big defenders is one of the great sights of the epl

Aguero tore EPL defences to pieces and won City the title two years ago. His lack of impact last season was mostly down to injury and Mancini being a cretin. He's on nine goals this season. Only Suarez is more dangerous right now.

aguero is a better player than suarez

he should be the best player in the epl and he needs to show it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X18CVpTbuRU

at 19 he was better than every current player apart from messi

also worth watching those highlights for ronaldinho's last moment of glory at barcelona

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his average goals/min is comfortably the best since the epl began despite him suffering from recurrent hamstring injuries for most of that time

neat summary of epl 2k11, latin prodge escorted by bluetoothed UAE securigoons through sea of dickensian scamps while tubby fanboy reaches out yet can't bring himself to confirm that the apparition has assumed corporeality

― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:04 (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

miss this guy