{"id":469932,"date":"2011-07-28T17:30:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/28\/man-city-complete-aguero-signing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:30:48","slug":"man-city-complete-aguero-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/28\/man-city-complete-aguero-signing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City complete Aguero signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"81.343231441\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/54136000\/jpg\/_54136760_aguero_getty.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Atletico Madrid and Argentina striker Sergio Aguero\" \/> Aguero scored 20 goals in La Liga for Atletico last season<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Sergio Aguero has signed a five-year contract to complete his move from Atletico Madrid to Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international, 23, had arrived in England on Wednesday to finalise the transfer for a reported \u00a338m.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday evening the Eastlands club announced the deal was done, and that Aguero would wear number 16.<\/p>\n<p>The club said the striker was likely to be in their squad for the weekend&#8217;s Dublin Super Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Aguero had Tweeted: &#8220;I&#8217;m already a City player. Happy to be in this club and this city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>City pressed on with the move despite <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/14213165.stm\" title=\"Corinthians withdraw Tevez offer\">the collapse of Carlos Tevez&#8217;s proposed switch to Corinthians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, nicknamed &#8216;Kun&#8217;, also interested Real Madrid and Juventus but has become the most expensive signing in City&#8217;s history, eclipsing the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/teams\/m\/man_city\/7593026.stm\" title=\"Man City beat Chelsea to Robinho\">\u00a332.5m paid for Robinho in 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Real nor Juventus met Atletico&#8217;s valuation of the striker.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero flew in from Buenos Aires, via Heathrow, early on Wednesday morning and went straight to a private Manchester hospital to undergo his medical.<\/p>\n<p>He then had a brief stop at City&#8217;s stadium in the early evening, and, after holding discussions with City officials, he happily signed autographs for the growing crowd of fans who had gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Corinthians, meanwhile, pulled out of their bid to take Tevez back to Brazil last week after initially agreeing a \u00a338.6m transfer.<\/p>\n<p>That translated as 40m euros plus 4m euros in add-ons and City were happy to accept payment in instalments as part of the deal, but Corinthians were unable or unwilling to provide the customary bank guarantees associated with a deal of such magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>Tevez&#8217;s desire to leave City remains as strong as ever, but he may face an added complication as City are unlikely to accept a similar fee to that offered by Corinthians from any of the top European clubs considering an approach for the 27-year-old Argentine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/14226198.stm\" title=\"Man City complete Aguero signing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man City complete Aguero signing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Aguero scored 20 goals in La Liga for Atletico last season Sergio Aguero has signed a five-year contract to complete his move from Atletico Madrid to Manchester City. The Argentina international, 23, had arrived in England on Wednesday to finalise the transfer for a reported \u00a338m<\/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-469932","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>Man City complete Aguero signing - 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\/28\/man-city-complete-aguero-signing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Man City complete Aguero signing - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Aguero scored 20 goals in La Liga for Atletico last season Sergio Aguero has signed a five-year contract to complete his move from Atletico Madrid to Manchester City. 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