Who Will Be Manchester City Left Back 2019/2020 Season

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The Premier League is facing "a very difficult moment" with the UK's Covid situation.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast after Burnley against Watford was postponed just two-and-a-half hours before kick-off, ex-Scotland international Pat Nevin and former Brighton and Crystal Palace forward Glenn Murray agree it is not a straightforward situation to navigate.

"It's really surprising there haven't been more late postponements," said Nevin. "I think there will be more over the next few weeks. It's really hard for the Premier League at the moment."

Murray argues more should be done to protect supporters.

"We need to set some parameters for postponing games, however big or small. The ones that suffer most are the fans.

"The away support in the Premier League sets us apart but it's those supporters who get hit in the pocket - two-and-half-hours' notice is unacceptable."

A further issue for the Premier League is the disparity between squad depth across the league and how certain teams can cope better than others.

"A set rule of players is one idea but some clubs have deeper squads," said Nevin. "It would have no effect on some clubs but a gigantic effect on others."

Listen to the full discussion on the Football Daily podcast from 12'38 on BBC Sounds

Stuart Brodkin, Manchester City fan

With the 90 minutes up and City 2-1 down in the club's most important game since the Gillingham play-off final at Wembley, it was time to hit the pause button.

So, switching off the mobile phone as well, I took a stroll around the garden to try to calm my shredded nerves.

I was walking up and down like a zombie for about five minutes before plucking up the courage to put the TV back on.

By then, of course, the drama was over.

Two minutes after I had restarted the game, Edin Dzeko soared high above the QPR defence to make it 2-2 from a corner. It was a lifeline, but no more than that.

And then came the Aguerooo moment that changed all our lives forever.

For all that this was an iconic moment in an iconic career, Sergio Aguero should most definitely not be remembered only for this moment.

He scored vital goals at crucial times, often against the top teams in the division. He was the epitome of a big game player.

He turned countless matches around with a single strike and we who were privileged to see him in action will never, ever forget him.

He has earned his retirement, even though I am sure he wouldn't have wanted it to happen in the way it has.

All City fans – and I would hope all football fans – wish him well.

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Phil McNulty, BBC Sport chief football writer

Sergio Aguero's legacy makes him one of the towering and most significant figures in the history of Manchester City and the Premier League.

Aguero not only left City at the end of last season as their all-time record goalscorer, he also scored arguably the most memorable goal in Premier League history.

The strike to win the title in 2012 was his great, over-arching moment - but Aguero provided so many key goals in his decade at City. A goalscorer of unrelenting threat and remarkable consistency - powerful, combative and a danger to any defence he came up against.

Yes, he will be remembered above all for that one moment in the Manchester sunshine that sparked hysteria at Etihad Stadium, but Aguero's time at City and in the Premier League leaves a body of work that, quite rightly, affords him legendary status forever at the club.

When City came out of the darkness and into the light under Roberto Mancini, then Manuel Pellegrini and latterly the great Pep Guardiola, Aguero's brilliance and record ensured he was at the forefront of their resurgence.

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Sergio Aguero will always have a special place in the heart of Manchester City fans of all ages.

But, for those of us who grew up watching a team that swapped promotion for relegation on a regular basis, derided by schoolmates supporting the other lot, there is simply nothing that can better the feeling of THAT moment in the 94th minute on 13 May 2012.

Aguero, of course, was so much more to City than just that one goal. The most incredible, natural goalscorer. Our leading goalscorer. A wonderfully happy and humble presence in all the behind-the-scenes footage shared by the club.

City fans could never understand how he was overlooked season after season for the team or player of the year, but he knows how much we valued him and we know just how privileged we were to see him play for City.

It's extremely sad that he's had to call time on his playing career earlier than anyone expected, but his health must come first and we wish him only the best in whatever lies ahead.

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Bill Rice, BBC Radio Manchester

Sergio Aguero's place in Manchester City's history is secured, as a great goalscorer, a scorer of great goals and as a serial winner.

BBC Radio Manchester looked back on his incredible 10 years at City, from last-minute title clinchers to record-breaking hat-tricks and everything in between.

Hear from his former team-mates like Nedum Onuoha, the City fans who adored him and even Match of the Day commentator Guy Mowbray on that moment.

Listen to Sergio Aguero: Record breaker, history maker on BBC Sounds

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One of my favourite sayings is from Maya Angelou: "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel."

Well, on the news of Sergio Aguero's retirement, I'm not sure if it applies to him.

I'm not going to get into the discussion or argument around who has been the best ever Premier League striker. Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry or Aguero - they were all brilliant players. Every football fan from every club will agree Aguero was one of the greatest players ever to play the game, and it was a pleasure and privilege to watch him.

So about that quote from Angelou. Sergio did his talking on the pitch. Nobody who was lucky enough to be in the crowd at Etihad Stadium, when he scored against QPR to give City their first top-flight title in 44 years, will forget that moment.

The joy, the pleasure the excitement and pure emotion of the moment. Nor will any City fan ever forget the way he makes us feel!

Thanks for the memories Sergio. Wishing you a long, healthy and happy retirement.

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• Sergio Aguero is the fourth-highest scoring player in Premier League history, with 184 goals in 275 games, behind only Alan Shearer (260), Wayne Rooney (208) and Andrew Cole (187). He is also the league's highest-scoring overseas player, having registered nine more goals than Thierry Henry (175).

• Aguero scored every 108 minutes in the Premier League, comfortably the best rate in the competition's history. He could play another 2,520 minutes - or 28 games - of Premier League football without scoring and would still have the best minutes-per-goal ratio of any top-flight player with more than 20 goals.

• The Argentine scored 18 hat-tricks in his career, including 12 in the Premier League - a record in England's top flight.

• He scored 20 or more goals in 12 of 13 campaigns between 2007-08 and 2019-20, reaching 30 or more five times at Manchester City.

• Aguero scored 36 goals for City in the Champions League, the joint-highest total a player has managed for an English side in the competition's history (along with former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba).

• He found the net against 128 different opponents, including the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.

• There were 16 years and 332 days between Aguero's first career goal in November 2004 (for Independiente) and his final strike for Barcelona - against Real Madrid in October 2021.

• Aguero won five Premier League titles, one FA Cup and six League Cups, as well as several personal accolades with City. His legacy at City is unquestioned – he is their all-time leading scorer with 260 goals, a record he broke all the way back in November 2017.

As Sergio Aguero announces his retirement, BBC Radio 5 Live looks back at the legacy Manchester City's all-time leading goalscorer has left on the club.

Originally released on 20 May 2021, Jermaine Jenas is joined by former City defenders Nedum Onuoha and Micah Richards to reflect on Aguero's 10 years at Etihad Stadium and ask the big questions - is he the best overseas player ever in Premier League history and where does he rank among the greats?

And the pair shed light on some of the myths behind the man. Was he really a poor trainer? Can he speak English?

Listen to the full podcast on BBC Sounds

Mike Minay, BBC Radio Manchester

I'm one of the lucky ones that can say on 13 May 2012, I was there. There wasn't a cheer, it was just noise. Pure noise. Screams. Shouting. Shock.

Sergio Aguero will forever be encapsulated in peoples memories for that goal against QPR. The moment that secured Manchester City their first top-flight league title since 1968.

That day, I stood with people who barely remember 40-plus years ago. I wasn't even born then. But those people I stood with had watched City continuously in the barren years, down to the third tier and back again. Aguero made those people cry in sheer joy. It meant everything to them.

Years later I'd get to report and commentate on the great man as he hit more milestones. None were more enjoyable than the final day of last season, when he came off the bench to score twice against Everton on his farewell. He had a knack for scoring all sorts of goals. A lethal finisher.

And more than that, he's a really nice bloke. Quiet and shy, perhaps, but a good man.

Of course, it's sad that it ended the way it has, and I wish him all the best. He will forever be Manchester City's poster boy.

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More from Sergio Aguero:

"When a player plays, they always want to keep winning more things, but I think I can be very happy with the titles I won. Anyone can always do a bit more, but I think I did my best for me and my clubs. You play as a team, not an individual, and everything I did was for my clubs.

On making the decision to retire: "Obviously the first two weeks were really difficult. When they did the first physical test on me, the medical staff told me there was a very big possibility I would not be able to continue playing. I am still processing everything. Then they called me to tell me it was definitive. Right now, I am OK, but I know it was difficult."

On his career highlights: "The goal for Independiente against Racing when I was 17 was one of the best that I ever scored. Winning the Europa League with Atletico was a really happy moment and then obviously with City the goal I scored to win the first Premier League - for me and City - was a beautiful moment. There are a lot and the last was the Copa America. I only played two or three matches, but it was something that we had been looking for for years and years.

"And of course, I will take my last goal for Barca against Madrid. It is not bad for a last goal, is it?"

What next? "People saying playing football is easy. It isn't. Every day you are travelling, training, playing. I think most people have great respect for players. I am sure I will be connected to the game still and I can enjoy life a little bit more.

"I am not going to be anyone for a while!"

On how he thinks he should be remembered: "I would prefer that people say what I deserve. I don't know. I am not the person who can decide that."

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Tim Vickery, South American football expert

There were still a couple of things to cross off on Aguero's list of things to do. One was to round off his career where it all started, at Independiente in Argentina.

When Independiente sold him to Atletico Madrid, they entirely rebuilt the stadium on the proceeds and it was always a dream of Aguero himself and of the club's fans that he would one day come back and play in the house he built So scratch that one, it seems.

The other one is another World Cup with Argentina because there are a couple of little holes in a fabulous career. One is the Champions League and the other is a great tournament. He did win the Copa America in the middle of the year - but he was a reserve, he hardly got on the field in the knockout stages and he didn't score.

Although he scored 42 goals for Argentina - and only two men have scored more, Gabriel Batistuta and Lionel Messi - he never truly had a great tournament and quite often come the end-of-season showpieces he was dragging his weary carcass around the field.

Maybe it is a shame Pep Guardiola didn't get his hands on him earlier because the best tournament he played was the last World Cup in Russia, where Argentina were otherwise an absolute shambles.

Now they are the best team they have been since he started playing for them, it would have been lovely for him to have one last go at the World Cup in a year's time.

It is not a moment of his choosing but what a legacy he has left us and what a magnificent player he has been.

Who Will Be Manchester City Left Back 2019/2020 Season

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