He ‘Only’ Agüero (35) marked an era in the Manchester City before ending up hanging up his boots at FC Barcelona, weakened by heart problems. The Argentine striker scored 260 goals in 389 games in all competitions, becoming the English club’s historic top scorer. However, he leaves a ‘stain’, in the words of a former teammate: Micah Richards.
According to the former defender, now retired at the age of 35, Agüero barely spoke to the media despite the ten years he spent at the Etihad Stadium. The reason? Richards himself explains it: “because he said he didn’t know how to speak English.” Speaking on ‘The Rest Is Football’ podcast alongside Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker, Richards claimed that he actually “was brilliant with English, but he refused to speak it on the grounds that he didn’t know it.”
“When he was asked to do interviews, he would say ‘I don’t speak English’. But he spoke brilliantly. He knew exactly what the slang terms were, all the terminologies. Of course, talking to your friends is not the same as talking in a interview. They’re two completely different things, but he played with it a lot and got away with it.” “Muggins, James Milner, Joleon Lescott and myself… all the English people had to be in the media because ‘Kun’ was just saying that he didn’t speak the language.”
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