Manchester City: A Kun return in 2019

Sergio Aguero joined Manchester City in 2011. Since then, he has received the player of the month on only four times. This, despite reaching 100 Premier League goals faster than anyone, other than Alan Shearer. He has also become, not only Manchester City’s highest ever goal-scorer, but also the highest Non-EU Premier League goal-scorer in its history.

In that last one, he bested the amount scored by Didier Drogba, Emmanuel Adebayor and Dwight Yorke. All three of those were named in various PFA Teams of the Year, Drogba twice. With Yorke also being named player of the season.

What makes it worse is that Adebayor wasn’t the top goal-scorer in the season he was named in the team of the year. And only one scored over 20 in the season they were named. Kun has scored 20 or more, in four of his six seasons, and eight so far this campaign.

Even when he was the Leagues top goal-scorer in the 2014/15 season he didn’t make the team. Harry Kane and Diego Costa made the front line. Although Joe Hart had the golden glove, but didn’t make the team either, there is no reason to suspect a bias.

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Rumors of his inability to work with Pep Guardiola started during last season. That even had our chairman coming out at the end of last season to vehemently deny the departure of Kun.

With Gabriel Jesus coming in that January, it seemed to fuel the fire. Conversations that the two couldn’t play together were dismissed when the two not only played together, but Kun unselfishly, laid the ball off for Jesus to score.

Then came the car accident in which Aguero broke a rib. Missing the game against Chelsea along with some critical National games, he was vilified in some punditry corners. Kun recovered and came back to score goals to move him into the record books.

Now, there are more reports circulating that he is stalling on a new contract. His current contract runs until the end of the 2018/19 season, and so there is no rush. At that point he would be then approaching his 31st birthday, and would have been a good servant for the club.

That’s not to say that he would be over the hill, far from it. But, he would have given Manchester City his best years, and already great memories. He has never made a secret, much the same as David Silva, that he wants to return to his home and the club he started at.

Over six seasons now, Kun has averaged a little over 20 goals a season. Of course he is way below the record held by Alan Shearer, with 260. Shearer, however, got that record over fourteen seasons, averaging a little over 18 goals a season. On his current form, Kun would get to that in the 2024/25 season.

This season, in the League so far, he has eight. That means he is only twenty goals behind the eighth top Premier League goal scorer of all time, Michael Owen. Owen got his tally in over 16 seasons and Aguero could eclipse that this time next season. Maybe even this season if he stays fit, he only needs another 20 goals in 27 matches after all.

The one I am looking at though, and one Sergio might also be interested in. The only non-English player on the list, Arsenals Thierry Henry. The Frenchman sits on 175 Premier League goals in his nine seasons with the Gunners, currently 45 ahead of Sergio. Imagine, if he was to go at the end of next season, and 176 League goals or more. The top Premier League, non-English, goal-scorer of all-time. He’d have to get some punditry love then, right?

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Of course, Manchester City have offered an extension to his current contract. Sergio Aguero may sign it, in fact I would bet that he will. In the same reports that say he will certainly quit City at the end of the contract, they have this quote from Kun hidden at the bottom.

"“I have an option to extend one more year with City where it’s the priority but it’s always an option.”"

I’ll let you decide for yourselves what he means by that. Personally I think he will stay as long as City want him. Signing the extension, and taking our top goal-scorer numbers into the higher 200’s. I am sure when he does eventually leave, whether it be 2019 or 2020, it will be as a club legend. Even if the League hasn’t recognised his contributions, the City faithful have.