#3 Sergio Aguero
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Has anyone this hardworking and talented been treated this unfairly by his club and national teams? Sergio Aguero is the living embodiment of everything that is right with the modern day footballer. He shows up and goes to work. He has a work ethic that only a select few in world football can boast of. He bangs in the goals and leads by example. Yet, seemingly hoisted by his own petard, Guardiola decided that the diminutive Argentinian could not feature as the man up front in his new ‘system’.
In retrospect, Pep was right. As a fan of football I wouldn’t want El Kun to be in a system that involves the goalkeeper giving the ball away to the opposition three times on average a game, where the full-backs channel their inner Jack Reacher and ‘never go back’, where you turn one of Europe’s most coveted centre-backs into a nervy mess and Fernando and Fabian Delph get actual minutes. Like actual match minutes. Let that sink in. Fernando and Fabian Delph get to play in the midfield for a team with title ambitions.
Anyhow, the dumbest of all modern football experiments lasted a mere four games and Aguero has since found his way back into Guardiola’s plans. Since then Kun has scored six goals in eleven since being reinstated.
Even if this match is nothing but a glorified audition for a potential suitor as he counts down his days in powder blue, discount Sergio at your own peril. And with United’s injury woes in the defensive department, Maradona’s favourite Argentinian must be chomping at the bit, waiting for kickoff.
