Sergio Agüero | Manchester City's All Time Top Goalscorer

Murph said:
Premier League only, not all time in the top flight.

Don't really like these Premier League only records, it's like football didn't exist prior to it.
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Yeah let's just instead pretend we're watching the same sport as the amateurs playing on bogs in the 1930's with 5 goals a game on average.
 
IOWBlue said:
youre having a laugh. lets start every decade with a clean slate eh, as the game's moved on.
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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.
 
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Pep Guardiola on the search for a Sergio Aguero replacement: "It's a completely different approach with strikers compared to the others. Strikers is numbers. Strikers is a smell of goal. It is not easy to find and all the big clubs need this kind..."

"When Sergio is fit and happy, he can do anything. We have a department to look at new talented players in different countries. People talk about players to me and show highlights but I don't have time to look in depth at specific skills."

Pep Guardiola on @gabrieljesus33 and @aguerosergiokun: "Gabriel has incredible statistics as well for goals and assists. We are lucky to have both of them and recently they've done well together."
 
domalino said:
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.
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What year were you born?

Like to know your actual knowledge of watching football pre 92.
 
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