Guardiola: Aguero’s best days at Man City are still to come
Sergio Aguero scored twice as Man City got back to winning ways on Saturday but boss Pep Guardiola has warned the rest of the Premier League we haven’t seen the best of him yet.
Aguero already has 13 goals in all competitions this season and his double helped the Citizens end a six-match winless run with a 4-0 victory over West Brom.
Reports this week in Spain linked Aguero with a return to La Liga but Guardiola was quick to re-iterate Aguero’s importance to his side.
“We need Sergio. We know how important he is for us. He is part of the history of this club and will be forever but I would like to help him.
“He can still write the most brilliant pages in his career in this club. All of us we are there to help him and of course the first goal is really good and the second as well.
“He’s one of the best, yeah, absolutely. But I want to help him be much, much better. That is my target. Just to see how many goals he’s scored here in the Premier League and how difficult it is, and “That’s why I’m so, so happy for him because he is one of the nicest people I have ever met. I love working with nice guys, nice people – and Sergio is one of them.
“Sergio is so important for us. We don’t have too many strikers -– we have Sergio and Kelechi (Iheanacho) but he’s too young and he has to learn a lot.”
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Ilkay Gundogan also bagged a double for the Manchester club and with a Champions League clash with Barcelona up next, Guardiola likes what he has seen from the German midfielder.
“Sergio scored two but so did Gundogan. He has the qualities with the ball in the middle, he’s safe and he’s really good with the ball one against one attacking central defenders,” Guardiola added.
“He showed that with the first goal with the pass to Sergio.”
“I was very pleased – after six games we needed a win for our health. The problem when you haven’t won for six games is you lack a bit of confidence for the next one.
“That happened in that period but we played well. But when you don’t win, your argument about how many good things you did sound like excuses.
“When we win you’re right, when we don’t, you just look for excuses. That’s why it was so important to win the game and I was very pleased with our performance in the first half.”
