There are few Premier League players with more star quality than Sergio Agüero.
The Argentine striker hit the ground running after joining Manchester City in 2011, scoring the title-winning goal in his first season in English football and hitting double figures every year since.
He has 110 Premier League goals to his name in just 159 games – that’s more than the likes of Didier Drogba, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Fernando Torres, to name but three.
So it’s not unreasonable that many would consider him one of the best strikers to ever grace the competition.
However, judging from the reception Jamie Redknapp has received for his comments to that effect, we’re not sure what to think any more.
‘For me, only Thierry Henry stands above him as the Premier League’s greatest striker,’ Redknapp writes in his Daily Mail column.
And of course, with this being the internet, the disagreements were instant and varied.
Alan Shearer,Wayne Rooney,Rvp,Rvn? You drunk mate
— Sir Tokyo (@Sir_Tokyo_) November 7, 2016
Alan Shearer ?
— Rich Pryde (@rfpryde) November 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/RedDunc/status/795592489646354432
I'd say he's the third just behind Suarez
— ? (@KolarovLeftFoot) November 7, 2016
better than Shearer, Suarez or even Torres for that matter? Not for me.
— Peter McCluskey (@redpmac) November 6, 2016
Redknapp’s praise of the Argentina striker comes hot on the heels of Alan Shearer’s declaration that Agüero is the only world-class player in the Premier League.
Shearer described him as “the one genuine world-class player we have in our Premier League and…the best centre-forward,” before brushing off suggestions from Gary Lineker that Arsenal’s Sánchez is on the same level.
Shearer took some heat for that, so we’d imagine more of the same sort of criticism will come Redknapp’s way in the next couple of days.
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