Sergio Aguero - 2016/17 performances

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

He needs to steer clear of the ojo de bife for the next three months!

fish it is (;

 

[BlueDeadHead]

Now that's a pathetic statement.

You still think we are a little club? Weird.

 

[Rolee]

You still think we are a little club? Weird.

I've never mentioned anything remotely like that. The fact that you have speaks volumes though.

 

[Dax777]

Happy for him. Doesn't deserve the way some have given up on him and want him discarded because we've signed a great young talent. There's room for both of them and we'd be off our heads to let him go.

So I guess we should have dropped Sane or Raz then to accommodate an of form Aguero?

Its easy to say generally that there is room for both, but the truth remains that someone performing very well will have to sit.

The idea that we should force into a starting role a player who is it off-form while others are on form, blows my mind!

Worst still is the notion that those who disagree with that position are the poor City fans. That's some Trumpism at its finest.

Like most including Pep, at a time when Jesus, Raz, Sane, David and Kevin were all in form and Aguero wasn't. It was absolutely the correct decision to bench him.

The notion that he should be forced into the team at the expense of Raz ( which was often the suggestion) boggles my mind.

We cannot love any player to the detriment of the club. I'm sorry. The notion that I'm wrong for wanting what's best for City over what's best for Aguero is insane to me. Insane!!!

 

[Dax777]

That is absurdly well put.

My thought exactly. Which is strange as I know @Neville Kneville normally doesn't put things that well. Perhaps his missus has gotten hold of his account. :p

 

[domalino]

So I guess we should have dropped Sane or Raz then to accommodate an of form Aguero?

Its easy to say generally that there is room for both, but the truth remains that someone performing very well will have to sit.

The idea that we should force into a starting role a player who is it off-form while others are on form, blows my mind!

Worst still is the notion that those who disagree with that position are the poor City fans. That's some Trumpism at its finest.

Like most including Pep, at a time when Jesus, Raz, Sane, David and Kevin were all in form and Aguero wasn't. It was absolutely the correct decision to bench him.

The notion that he should be forced into the team at the expense of Raz ( which was often the suggestion) boggles my mind.

We cannot love any player to the detriment of the club. I'm sorry. The notion that I'm wrong for wanting what's best for City over what's best for Aguero is insane to me. Insane!!!

He never complained about Aguero being dropped for Jesus so I don't know why you've written an essay about it.

 

[Dax777]

He never complained about Aguero being dropped for Jesus so I don't know why you've written an essay about it.

Nice essay though :)

 

[Phil1]

So I guess we should have dropped Sane or Raz then to accommodate an of form Aguero?

Its easy to say generally that there is room for both, but the truth remains that someone performing very well will have to sit.

The idea that we should force into a starting role a player who is it off-form while others are on form, blows my mind!

Worst still is the notion that those who disagree with that position are the poor City fans. That's some Trumpism at its finest.

Like most including Pep, at a time when Jesus, Raz, Sane, David and Kevin were all in form and Aguero wasn't. It was absolutely the correct decision to bench him.

The notion that he should be forced into the team at the expense of Raz ( which was often the suggestion) boggles my mind.

We cannot love any player to the detriment of the club. I'm sorry. The notion that I'm wrong for wanting what's best for City over what's best for Aguero is insane to me. Insane!!!

Once again, lots of words which miss the point of the post you are responding to.

Just so we're clear though I haven't once advocated dropping Sterling or forcing Aguero into the team at the expense of the team. There's no sentimentality (which seems to be your go to argument in discussions like this) I just happen to think that Aguero is more than good enough to retain a place in our squad and we'd be foolish to let him go.
Football reasons are the driving force behind my thinking, not him scoring a goal that won us the league 5 years ago.

 

[Dax777]

Once again, lots of words which miss the point of the post you are responding to.

Just so we're clear though I haven't once advocated dropping Sterling or forcing Aguero into the team at the expense of the team. There's no sentimentality (which seems to be your go to argument in discussions like this) I just happen to think that Aguero is more than good enough to retain a place in our squad and we'd be foolish to let him go.
Football reasons are the driving force behind my thinking, not him scoring a goal that won us the league 5 years ago.

The problem is that no player of Aguero's quality will stay as a row player. He'll just move on to start somewhere else of he is not a guaranteed starter here.

And that's the point many were making about him being gone. And for those who disagreed, you'd have to answer the question: who do you bench to accommodate Aguero? As being just a squad member ( and likely backup role) will simply not do.

Which brings us to 'my lots of words'.after your original post.

I simply connected the dots implicitly. That problem is still going to rear its head next season too.

That all the others can move around any of the 3 positions but Aguero can't will become problematic anytime he loses form. Coz you can't simply just move him wide like the others. You have to move him to the bench.

He is simply too good to stand for it. And there in lies your personell problem.

 

[aguero93:20]

The problem is that no player of Aguero's quality will stay as a row player. He'll just move on to start somewhere else of he is not a guaranteed starter here.

And that's the point many were making about him being gone. And for those who disagreed, you'd have to answer the question: who do you bench to accommodate Aguero? As being just a squad member ( and likely backup role) will simply not do.

Which brings us to 'my lots of words'.after your original post.

I simply connected the dots implicitly. That problem is still going to rear its head next season too.

That all the others can move around any of the 3 positions but Aguero can't will become problematic anytime he loses form. Coz you can't simply just move him wide like the others. You have to move him to the bench.

He is simply too good to stand for it. And there in lies your personell problem.

We play an average of 50 odd games a season. As Wenger has shown everyone so successfully in the recent past, relying on young players to play too many games results in them burning out. The worst thing we could do with our young trio is put them in a position where they're unchallenged as first choice in the squad.

Young players are also less able to handle the pressure of the expectations of a major club on their shoulders when they're out of form and not performing - look at Sterling's last season at Liverpool with Suarez gone and Sturridget injured, he saw his arse and decided to move somewhere where he had more chances of trophies and team-mates he could rely upon.

It's also a fact in football that players get injuries and suspensions, something our players suffer from more than most and as much as anyone.

He wouldn't be staying to be a 'row' player, he'd be staying to be a vital part of the first team squad, in fact even having 4 players capable of playing in those 3 positions wouldn't be enough, so we'd be on the lookout for another.

If you look at the problems our squad is suffering from at the moment, which is a sharp drop off in performance levels when the first choice players are unable to play, it's absolute stupidity to look at getting rid of Aguero without getting a replacement of a similar level (which doesn't solve your 'row' player issue in the slightest).

Also and this is something Aguero will be more than aware of, while he may have been guaranteed a first team spot here over the preceding 2 seasons when fully fit (due to us being far too thin on strikers in the squad), he won't find another club in Europe where this would be the case without taking a serious step down. Bayern have Lewandowski, Madrid Benzema, Bale and Ronaldo along with Morata, Juventus Dybala, HIguain and Mandzukic, PSG have Cavani, Barca have Neymar, Messi and Suarez, Chelsea have Costa, Monaco Falcao, Atleti have Griezmann and Dortmund have Aubemayang. So unless he wants to join a team with no serious ambitions to challenge for a top domestic league and the Champions League, he'd have to accept that he wasn't necessarily going to play every game regardless of form.

Plus, he's happy in Manchester and knows the club, we treat him well, pay him well and he knows that more than likely when his contract is up we'll allow him to go back to Independiente on a free, we won't stand in his way. Any other club that sign him now will be looking for a long term contract to absorb the cost of his transfer fee into their books and they'll want a fee to allow him to go back to Argentina before the end of that contract. He'd be silly to move and I think he knows that.

So unless Guardiola actually has no interest in keeping him here, which I don't believe for a second, Aguero staying here is not only the best option for us, it's the best option for him.