Sergio Agüero | Manchester City's All Time Top Goalscorer

Yeah that would be better than trying to compare strikers in 2019 with people like Dixie Dean.

For about 6 or 7 reasons - offside rule reaching it's current iteration, passback rule coming in, Sky money arriving, Bosman rule changing transfers, the change to a 38 game season, the creation of the Champions League, introduction of the transfer window and a few others - the early 1990's is about when this current modern era of football started.

So "Premier League" only stats serve a really useful purpose, if you're actually trying to compare things in any meaningful way.

Unfortunately a few years ago, a few people started to think that complaining that a stat doesn't include someone scoring 80 goals a season in the interwar years was being "a proper oldschool football fan" instead of just being a boring c*nt.

So now every 3 months when it comes up, people have to have this argument where you make your comment, and someone has to rightfully point out that no one gives a fuck how Aguero compares to someone to all intents and purposes playing a completely different sport in the 20's.

Scoring the most goals for 1 club in the 2010's has nothing to do with people who played 1 game a week until they were 45 with an average of 5 goals scored in a game because defending hadn't been invented yet, against keepers who didn't even have gloves and heading a ball which was so heavy it's given them dementia. There's just no point comparing them. So instead everyone sensible uses 1992.
I think that's pretty well thought out
 
Just watched his hat tricks show on Sky Sports. I didn't realise how many of them came in the 2nd half of his City career.

Some ridiculous finishes too. Excellent variety.
 
Just watched his hat tricks show on Sky Sports. I didn't realise how many of them came in the 2nd half of his City career.

Some ridiculous finishes too. Excellent variety.

I think 8 have come under Pep. Was it 3 last season?

Makes you wonder how many he would have if Pep arrived in 2013.
 

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