Striker: Sergio Aguero
Henry. Shearer. Rooney. van Nistelrooy. van Persie. Drogba. Among the pantheon of Premier League greats, Sergio Aguero fits in seamlessly. Standing at just 5 feet 8 inches, Aguero is one of the more diminutive strikers to grace the Premier League. However, he is a giant in terms of stature on the football pitch.
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Aguero moved from Atletico Madrid, where he was teammates with David de Gea, to Manchester City in 2011, after scoring 32 league goals across the two preceding seasons in La Liga. His first season, 2011/12, yielded a healthy return of 23 goals, with 8 assists thrown in for good measure. However, ask any Manchester City fan and they will tell you that they don't care about the other 22, just the one he scored on the final day of the season, in the 95th minute of the game against Queens Park Rangers, to deliver Manchester City's first league title since 1968. Fun fact: That goal, assisted by Mario Balotelli, turned out to be the Italian's solitary Premier League assist.
After two sub-20 goal seasons in 2012/13 and 2013/14 (he scored 17 and 12 respectively), Aguero has scored 20+ goals in each of the last five seasons. His tally in the Premier League now stands at 164 goals and 43 assists in 239 appearances, meaning he is involved in a goal every 86 minutes, a frankly ridiculous statistic. He thrives on quality service, and is an exceptional poacher (88.4% of his goals have come from inside the box). Since he arrived at the club, Aguero has scored 23.56% of City's 696 league goals, over an 8 year period. Criminally, he has never won an official Premier League player award.
Now 31, Aguero still has a lot to offer Pep Guardiola's side, and has started this season in excellent form as well, with 8 goals from his first 8 games.
