Sergio Aguero has become Manchester City’s greatest ever goalscorer, and he is still the best striker in the Premier League too – just. He is a world-class finisher but part of what makes him so special is his consistency – he has been scoring at an incredible rate for City for more than six seasons now, not just two or three, and even Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku have not managed that yet.
Aguero’s goal against Napoli on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 saw him surpass Eric Brook’s total of 177 goals in all competitions for City and become his club’s top scorer with 178. The 29-year-old Argentina international is already a City legend, but landmarks like this one cement his place in their history, and he deserves it. There is no doubt Aguero is also one of the best strikers of the entire Premier League era. His scoring statistics in that competition alone – 129 goals in 188 appearances – tell you how good he is, and why he’s rated so highly. It’s strange that, so far, he has never made a Professional Footballers’ Association team of the year during his time in England, but there is not much he can do about that and I am not sure he will be too bothered.
He has three league titles and a shed-load of goals to show everyone how good he is, as well as City’s record, so he has had an amazingly successful time no matter which way you look at it – and it could get even better still. 2015-2016 season was regarded as a difficult one for him, but he still found the net 33 times in 45 appearances and his scoring rate has not dropped. He has the best minutes-to-goal ratio of any Premier League player to have played more than 50 games, with a goal every 108 minutes.
In all competitions, Aguero has scored 20 goals or more in six of his seven seasons at City and by watching him you can see why he is so difficult to stop. As well as being able to score all sorts of different goals, Aguero is strong and clever, can run with the ball and can also bring others into the game. He is comfortable in whichever system his manager Pep Guardiola asks him to play, whether he is leading the attack on his own or up front with someone else.
Alan Shearer describes the Argentine goal-poacher as a great goalscorer and also a scorer of great goals, like the brilliant run and finish that saw him complete his hat-trick against Watford in September.
We have seen ‘Kun’do that kind of thing so many times down the years and, like all the very top players, he is the man for the big occasion too. His most memorable goal is the injury-time winner against QPR that secured City the Premier League title on the final day of the 2011-12 season, which sums up how he produces when it matters in the really important games.