{"id":466665,"date":"2011-07-23T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/23\/adam-johnson-endorses-manchester-citys-pursuit-of-atletico-madrids-sergio-aguero-hes-a-world-class-player-it-would-be-great-if-we-sign-him\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T11:28:00","slug":"adam-johnson-endorses-manchester-citys-pursuit-of-atletico-madrids-sergio-aguero-hes-a-world-class-player-it-would-be-great-if-we-sign-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/adam-johnson-endorses-manchester-citys-pursuit-of-atletico-madrids-sergio-aguero-hes-a-world-class-player-it-would-be-great-if-we-sign-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Johnson endorses Manchester City&#8217;s pursuit of Atletico Madrid&#8217;s Sergio Aguero: &#8216;He&#8217;s a world class player &#038; it would be great if we sign him&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"51.7654761905\"><span readability=\"3.63265306122\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a> winger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/9519\/adam-johnson\">Adam Johnson<\/a> has backed the club&#8217;s attempts to sign striker Sergio Aguero.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine forward is still an Atletico Madrid player but City are hopeful of concluding a deal for him over the next few days, and Johnson thinks that he would be a great addition to the squad.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"20\"><br \/>The England international told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>: &#8220;He\u2019s Aguero a world class player. It would be great if he came and added to the squad that we have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve watched him in La Liga over the last couple of seasons and he\u2019s an outstanding player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aguero scored 20 goals in 32 league games last season for Atletico and would clearly represent a like-for-like replacement for Carlos Tevez, a man Johnson still hopes will be at Eastlands next season despite heavy speculation about a move away, with Tevez having already seen a move to Brazilian side Corinthians collapse this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said: &#8220;I don\u2019t know whether he\u2019ll be playing with us in the new season, that\u2019s not for me to answer. I hope he is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously he was our talisman last season, scored all of our goals and at times he\u2019s carried us in certain games with his goals and his individual brilliance but he has his own reasons for what he\u2019s doing at the minute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s a world class player and whatever he does I wish him all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/23\/2587176\/adam-johnson-endorses-manchester-citys-pursuit-of-atletico\" title=\"Adam Johnson endorses Manchester City's pursuit of Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero: 'He's a world class player &amp; it would be great if we sign him'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Johnson endorses Manchester City&#8217;s pursuit of Atletico Madrid&#8217;s Sergio Aguero: &#8216;He&#8217;s a world class player &amp; it would be great if we sign him&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Manchester City winger Adam Johnson has backed the club&#8217;s attempts to sign striker Sergio Aguero. The Argentine forward is still an Atletico Madrid player but City are hopeful of concluding a deal for him over the next few days, and Johnson thinks that he would be a great addition to the squad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adam Johnson endorses Manchester City&#039;s pursuit of Atletico Madrid&#039;s Sergio Aguero: &#039;He&#039;s a world class player &amp; it would be great if we sign him&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/23\/adam-johnson-endorses-manchester-citys-pursuit-of-atletico-madrids-sergio-aguero-hes-a-world-class-player-it-would-be-great-if-we-sign-him\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Adam Johnson endorses Manchester City&#039;s pursuit of Atletico Madrid&#039;s Sergio Aguero: &#039;He&#039;s a world class player &amp; it would be great if we sign him&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Manchester City winger Adam Johnson has backed the club&#039;s attempts to sign striker Sergio Aguero. 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