Top 10 South Americans in Premier League history

#1 Sergio Aguero

Sergio Aguero could go down as Manchester City's greatest ever player

It couldn’t be anyone else really, could it? Argentina’s Sergio Aguero was not only the final piece in the puzzle to allow Manchester City to finally win the Premier League title – their first top-flight title in 44 years, and he scored that famous final goal too – but he’s also arguably the greatest player to ever pull on a City shirt.

At the end of 2014/15, Aguero had the highest goals-to-games ratio in Premier League history, averaging a goal every 109 minutes – or almost a goal-per-game, which is insane.

Want more stats? He’s the highest scoring non-European in Premier League history, which basically puts him at the top of this list, and he reached 100 Premier League goals faster than any other player in league history outside of the great Alan Shearer, reaching the mark in just 147 games.

He holds the joint-record for most goals scored in any Premier League game with five, and he did it faster than anyone else too – just 23 minutes and 34 seconds. His goalscoring record is simply ludicrous – even in his lowest scoring, most injury-hit season (2012/13) he still managed 17, and since then his lowest has been 28.

His trophy haul includes two Premier League title medals and two League Cups and he shows no sign of slowing down – he’s already got 6 goals in 6 Premier League games this season.

And yet he’s still humble, is never involved in any controversy, and he’s just two goals away from becoming Man City’s all-time leading goalscorer, all in just seven seasons. It’d be hard to argue that he’s not the Premier League’s best ever foreign player, let alone the best South American.