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Manchester City Fan View: City can afford to drop Sergio Aguero due to squad depth
Kyle Walker needs a rest? Danilo can come in. Fernandinho is suspended? Ilkay Gundogan can play. David Silva is injured? Bernardo Silva has this covered. Gabriel Jesus has hit a slump in form? Step up, Sergio Aguero.
It says a lot about the quality of the current crop of stars at Manchester City that Pep Guardiola could pretty much rotate his entire starting 11 from one game to the next and still effectively present a rather admirable cohort of talent.
Sergio Aguero became the Blues’ all-time top goalscorer on a staggering 178 goals for the club with his perfectly placed finish in the Champions League against Napoli this week – overtaking the previous record set by Eric Brook – and yet he is still not guaranteed a starting space in the huge clash with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
It is highly likely that he will start the game against the Gunners, having broken that record and the Argentine ace will inevitably be high on confidence. But it speaks volumes that City’s iconic talisman – very nearly, if not already, having achieved legendary status in Manchester – is not a definitive starter on a game to game basis.
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Look at most top outfits in England and across Europe and, regardless of any depth, they will have a first choice, go to forward who will predominantly feature in the majority of matches. Tottenham have Harry Kane. Manchester United have Romelu Lukaku. Chelsea have Alvaro Morata. Arsenal have Alexandre Lacazette. Real Madrid have Karim Benzema. Barcelona have Luis Suarez. Bayern Munich have Robert Lewandowski. Borussia Dortmund have Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Juventus have Gonzalo Higuain. Roma have Edin Dzeko. Napoli have Dries Mertens. Paris Saint-Germain have Edinson Cavani. Monaco have Radamel Falcao.
Manchester City have Sergio Aguero. And Manchester City have Gabriel Jesus. Two of the most lethal forwards in world football.
It is remarkable, too, that Aguero can be mentioned in the same breath as some of the all-time Premier League great strikers – the likes of Luis Suarez, Thierry Henry and Didier Drogba – and yet still, arguably, not be Manchester City’s greatest ever player. That accolade is contested in the minds of supporters by the likes of David Silva and Yaya Toure.
But the astonishing amount of depth and the full understanding of Guardiola’s philosophy within the current City setup suggests that, despite a lack of silverware last term, the Blues could achieve some big things this time around.
