Peter Anderson ⚽ So what next for Kun Aguero? 

He has been told that City will speak to him once the season is over. Given his injury problems and his age you have to suspect his time at City is near its end. He may get the offer of one more season, but will that be enough? Will he get a better offer elsewhere? 

Age catches up with all of us but it really is sad to see the wee man coming to the end of his time at the top. Players now can last longer than they did in the past due to better training and nutrition, but for strikers that rely on their pace to steal that half a yard their moment in the sun is usually shorter. Aguero is now 32 and clearly his legs have gone.

I must confess that as a City supporter I will be gutted to see him go, especially as I saw his arrival in Europe and early development into a top, top striker at first hand. In 2005 I moved to Madrid to study Spanish for a year but I fell in love with the city and ended up staying for 6! The sun, the food, the people, the architecture and the football made me fall head over heals for one of Europe's epic capitals.

Of course I went to the Bernabeú expecting to follow the whites but a staid atmosphere and a notoriously difficult support turned me off, so I headed to the Vicente Calderón to check out Atletico and found my club. The working-class fans made a wonderful atmosphere in their 55,000-seater stadium. For the next 5 seasons I had a season ticket and watched Atletico rise from mid-table obscurity to football's top table and, of course, to watch young Aguero every other week. Coming from where I do the opportunity to watch top flight football regularly was a genuine treat.

Aguero arrived in the summer of 2006 as a fancied future prospect but a loss of form by Mista, Atleti's number 10, led Aguero to be given the chance to start games alongside Fernando "El Niño" Torres and the home support took to the young Argentine immediately. 

But the following summer Torres was sold to Liverpool and Atleti bought Diego Forlan to replace him. It was a genius move from Atleti's board. Forlan and Aguero went on to form the deadliest partnership in Europe with Forlan winning the European Golden Boot in 2009 with 32 league goals. Aguero chipped in with 19 of his own making 51 in total and qualification for the Champion's League. 

I was treated to some absolute cracker games during this period, beating Guardiola's Barca 4-3 (with a last minute Aguero goal), epic comebacks, winning the Europa League, CL games against Liverpool and Chelsea with the constant of Aguero being the best player in almost all the games. He was adored by the home faithful even though Forlan scored more.  Aguero's work rate and ability made him the clear favourite, much to Forlan's disgust!

In 2011 it was time to move on for me and her indoors, back to Norn Iron to do a Masters in Jordanstown, and for Aguero the time had come to move on too. The fact that he was going to Man City sugared the pill considerably. His success at City has been stellar. He is City's top scorer ever with 181 goals in 271 appearances, the 4th highest Premier League scorer ever, has the most Premier League hat-tricks with 12, and the scorer of that goal against QPR to win City's first Premier league.

"Agueroooooooo, I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again" yelled Martin Tyler as City stole the league from United in the very last minute. Of all the goals I've seen him score that is probably the best, the most important and the one that sealed his place in Man City's, and indeed the Premier League's, pantheon of stellar players. He has won many admirers all over the world with his skill and cheeky smile. Whatever he does next I wish him all the best, I've followed him closely for 15 entertaining years. 

Thanks for the memories wee man!

Peter Anderson is a Unionist with a keen interest in sports.

Thanks For The Memories Kun Aguero

Peter Anderson ⚽ So what next for Kun Aguero? 

He has been told that City will speak to him once the season is over. Given his injury problems and his age you have to suspect his time at City is near its end. He may get the offer of one more season, but will that be enough? Will he get a better offer elsewhere? 

Age catches up with all of us but it really is sad to see the wee man coming to the end of his time at the top. Players now can last longer than they did in the past due to better training and nutrition, but for strikers that rely on their pace to steal that half a yard their moment in the sun is usually shorter. Aguero is now 32 and clearly his legs have gone.

I must confess that as a City supporter I will be gutted to see him go, especially as I saw his arrival in Europe and early development into a top, top striker at first hand. In 2005 I moved to Madrid to study Spanish for a year but I fell in love with the city and ended up staying for 6! The sun, the food, the people, the architecture and the football made me fall head over heals for one of Europe's epic capitals.

Of course I went to the Bernabeú expecting to follow the whites but a staid atmosphere and a notoriously difficult support turned me off, so I headed to the Vicente Calderón to check out Atletico and found my club. The working-class fans made a wonderful atmosphere in their 55,000-seater stadium. For the next 5 seasons I had a season ticket and watched Atletico rise from mid-table obscurity to football's top table and, of course, to watch young Aguero every other week. Coming from where I do the opportunity to watch top flight football regularly was a genuine treat.

Aguero arrived in the summer of 2006 as a fancied future prospect but a loss of form by Mista, Atleti's number 10, led Aguero to be given the chance to start games alongside Fernando "El Niño" Torres and the home support took to the young Argentine immediately. 

But the following summer Torres was sold to Liverpool and Atleti bought Diego Forlan to replace him. It was a genius move from Atleti's board. Forlan and Aguero went on to form the deadliest partnership in Europe with Forlan winning the European Golden Boot in 2009 with 32 league goals. Aguero chipped in with 19 of his own making 51 in total and qualification for the Champion's League. 

I was treated to some absolute cracker games during this period, beating Guardiola's Barca 4-3 (with a last minute Aguero goal), epic comebacks, winning the Europa League, CL games against Liverpool and Chelsea with the constant of Aguero being the best player in almost all the games. He was adored by the home faithful even though Forlan scored more.  Aguero's work rate and ability made him the clear favourite, much to Forlan's disgust!

In 2011 it was time to move on for me and her indoors, back to Norn Iron to do a Masters in Jordanstown, and for Aguero the time had come to move on too. The fact that he was going to Man City sugared the pill considerably. His success at City has been stellar. He is City's top scorer ever with 181 goals in 271 appearances, the 4th highest Premier League scorer ever, has the most Premier League hat-tricks with 12, and the scorer of that goal against QPR to win City's first Premier league.

"Agueroooooooo, I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again" yelled Martin Tyler as City stole the league from United in the very last minute. Of all the goals I've seen him score that is probably the best, the most important and the one that sealed his place in Man City's, and indeed the Premier League's, pantheon of stellar players. He has won many admirers all over the world with his skill and cheeky smile. Whatever he does next I wish him all the best, I've followed him closely for 15 entertaining years. 

Thanks for the memories wee man!

Peter Anderson is a Unionist with a keen interest in sports.

8 comments:

  1. He will forever be remembered for that goal against QPR when it seemed almost certain that City were about to blow it. A gifted player but who like them all is in the twilight of his career. I doubt that side would have been forgiven had they dropped the ball at the last minute.
    My view of the game.

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    Fucking turncoat! Lol That game was all the more sweet when you saw the pictures from the United game and they thought they had it. Slap it into them, the noisy neighbours robbed them in the last minute!

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  3. He's Messi's best mate so I'd be unsurprised if Barca make a move to keep Messi sweet.

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    1. Barca need to recruit for the future not from the past

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    2. True but I think they're desperate to keep Messi onside. Without Messi Barcelona will be hampered quite significantly.

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  4. But Messi too is past his best and wars are not fought with old soldiers. Two great players but I sense Aguero is at around the level of stamina & sharpness Suarez had when he left Barca. Then again Suarez has done the business for Atletico.

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    1. I don't think Barca are convinced they can replace Messi just yet. I can see Haaland playing in England next and Lukaku is settled in Italy so they'd be thinking we'd better hold on to Messi for another couple of years.

      And Suarez was kept in Chelsea's back pocket the other week, godamn vampire!

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  5. With a goal like that scored yesterday by Ben Mendy I am not sure City need a replacement for Aguero!! It was a quality strike.
    And Liverpool were on song, but up against a better organised side I doubt they would have done so well.
    Peter - these pieces at least allow us somewhere fresh to pin our latest sporting opinion!

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