Who is to say Sergio Aguero will be successful at Manchester City? What is stopping him from being just as unsuccessful as the majority of the other strikers that City have spent big bucks on?
I'll just run through a few strikers:
Bellamy - £14million, 18 goals in 2 seasons - 700k per goal
Robinho - £32.5million, 16 goals in 2 seasons - £2miilion per goal
Adebayor - £25million, 19 goals in 2 seasons - £1.3 million per goal
Santa Cruz - £17.5 million, 4 goals in 2 seasons - £4.3million per goal
Balotelli - £24million, 10 goals in 1 season - £2.4 million per goal
Dzeko - £27million, 6 goals in 1 season - £4.5 million per goal
Tevez - £35million, 52 goals in 2 seasons - £650k per goal
Reading this is pretty shocking, don't you think? City have paid £175million there, not to mention some astronomical wages and that money has only managed 125 goals between them, costing on average £1.4million per goal.
What is even funnier to look at is that the worst performing players out of those players are still on your books (Santa Cruz, Dzeko and Balotelli)
The two best performers in goals:fee ratio are Bellamy and Tevez. Now one of those players played in the Championship last season and the other one wants to leave!!!
Frankly, this is an awful set of figures and it doesn't even take into account the wages for each player. I really wonder what your manager and owner are playing at. When it comes to football, it is clear that they cannot weigh up success with outlay.
I think Aguero will go down the same route too. I think he will struggle just as much as the previous players.
Successful Strikers
posted on 29/7/11
We can smell your fear from here !! Even if Serg only scores 10 goals this season he is still possibly the most exciting purchase we have made. He could have walked into any and I mean ANY team in Europe this summer. We were the only ones who met the asking price so he is here.
This kind of attitude will never change, even if we signed Messi the WUMs would find fault in it?
posted on 29/7/11
I am not a WUM.
I do not profess that I know that Aguero will fail, it is just my opinion
The amount of money being thrown at players is so high that they will nearly always be considered a failure!
posted on 29/7/11
Typical. A football expert who keeps his opinion to himself until after we've signed the guy.
Why didn't you contact the club and tell them before he signed? Think of the money we could have saved.
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I don't support Man City, so I don't really care who you sign.
Are you saying that if I had contacted Mancini about my thoughts on Aguero, he will have taken my advice?
It is just my opinion and as long as this is a football forum where opinions are Matty discussed, I shall continue to air it
posted on 29/7/11
oops.
*mostly
posted on 29/7/11
Aguero is clearly the biggest waste of money ever!
£35M and hasn't scored a single goal!!!!
True statistic.....
posted on 29/7/11
Interestingly, given that you are big on 'stats'
Your 'cost' for Robinho is wrong given that we sold him for £18M meaning we only really spent £14.5M on him
which works out as roughly 800k per goal.
Equally should we sell Tevez for £50M (a £26M profit)
Then his 'stats' will read that we got paid £500k for every goal he scored...
See, we can all manipulate stats when we want to....
posted on 29/7/11
Your 'cost' for Robinho is wrong given that we sold him for £18M meaning we only really spent £14.5M on him
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No it isn't. The whole seaaon you re couped some of the original outlay is because he didn't score enough goals.
RE Tevez, we can't go ahead guessing how much you might sell him for, as not even I can see the future!
Anyway, the point still stands, by far your most valuable player, in terms of goal:fee ratio doesn't wanna play for you
posted on 29/7/11
"It has absolutely nothing to do with my club!"
correct, so do one you bore.
posted on 29/7/11
You realy must be bored out of your skull, if you have to put up such meaningless articles on another teams board.
go back to your own board and stay there, you wum
posted on 31/7/11
Are you saying that if I had contacted Mancini about my thoughts on Aguero, he will have taken my advice?
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Er, just the opposite in fact. I think he would have thought just that same as the rest of us did.