Sergio Aguero Transfer News: Manchester City Forward Unlikely to Leave for Barcelona, Real Madrid

Manchester City forward Sergio Aguero should be staying with the club next season.
Sergio Aguero Transfer News: Manchester City Forward Unlikely to Leave for Barcelona, Real Madrid
Sergio Aguero of Manchester City celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the UEFA Champions League Group A match between Manchester City and Villareal CF at the Etihad Stadium on October 18, 2011 in Manchester, England. (Michael Regan/Getty Images)
6/21/2014
Updated:
6/20/2014

Manchester City forward Sergio Aguero should be staying with the club next season.

The 26-year-old Argentina international has been linked with a move back to Spain

Aguero however, has came out to state that he won’t be moving away from the Etihad Stadium.

“There’s lots of talk about Real Madrid and Barcelona,” Aguero told Spanish radio station Cadena Cope.

“It’s always the same every year, but the truth is that I’m going to stay at City.”

“I’m very happy and I’m going to continue there,” Aguero added.

Here is an Associated Press article on Argentina.

Messi: Argentines Made Too Many Mistakes vs Bosnia

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Lionel Messi doesn’t count Argentina among the best teams in the World Cup so far.

The Argentina captain said his team committed too many mistakes in its 2-1 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina, including starting the game with two attackers instead of three.

“I think the best teams in the in first games were the Netherlands and Germany,” Messi said Monday. “But I think there are still teams that haven’t shown what they can do and it’s difficult to draw conclusions from a single match. I think as the tournament goes on they will improve.”

The Netherlands stunned defending champion Spain 5-1 — a result Messi said no one expected — while Germany thrashed Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal 4-0 in their opening games.

Messi stopped short of criticizing coach Alejandro Sabella but said he hopes Argentina will stick with the three-man attack it used in the second half against Bosnia — even against stronger opponents.

“We are Argentina and I think we have to focus on ourselves and not on who we’re facing,” Messi said. “Of course depending on the result of a game we can change to another system. But personally I think we need to look at ourselves first and not focus on the rival.”

Sabella started the match with Messi as a one of two attackers in a 5-3-2 formation that the Barcelona star said left him and Sergio Aguero cut off from the game. Argentina played poorly and was lucky to be ahead 1-0 at half-time after an own-goal.

In the second half Sabella let Messi drop behind Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain in 4-3-3 formation, a switch that paid dividends as Messi scored a brilliant goal following a 1-2 with Higuain.

“That’s how we’re used to playing. That’s how we played in most of the friendlies and qualifiers,” Messi said.

Asked why he thought Sabella chose to start the game with a more cautious lineup, he said: “You have to ask Alejandro. He makes the decisions and decided that we should go out to play that way ... Maybe he was thinking he didn’t want to let the three points slip away.”

Attacking midfielder Angel Di Maria said he also preferred the three-man attack.

“Playing with three up front is much easier. For Leo too, because he always has two players to pass to. And when I join up he has a third,” Di Maria said after the match Sunday.

Sabella admitted his initial game plan didn’t work and that the half-time change allowed Messi to get more involved in the game.

Argentina plays Iran in its second match on Saturday.

 

Larry Ong is a New York-based journalist with Epoch Times. He writes about China and Hong Kong. He is also a graduate of the National University of Singapore, where he read history.