{"id":592836,"date":"2021-06-01T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=592836"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T19:10:54","slug":"segio-aguero-move-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/01\/segio-aguero-move-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Segio Aguero Discusses His Move to Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being presented to the media at Camp Nou, Sergio Aguero discussed his move to Barcelona after not being given a new contract by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?s=manchester-city\" target=\"_self\">Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Sergio Aguero Opens Up on Barcelona Move<\/h2>\n<h3>The Striker is Excited for a &#8216;Step Forward&#8217; in His Career<\/h3>\n<p>Aguero will leave Manchester City as the club&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer when his contract expires on June 30th. He made his final appearance for the club in City&#8217;s Champions League final defeat to Chelsea on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old is one of several free transfers to be made by Barcelona this summer, including another Citizen, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/06\/01\/eric-garcia-barcelona-move\/\" target=\"_self\">Eric Garcia<\/a>. After ten seasons which saw Aguero win 15 major trophies, the Argentine is set to return to La Liga after beginning his time in European football there in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Aguero is looking forward to the opportunity to play regularly after being unable to maintain his place in City&#8217;s team under Guardiola, saying: &#8220;We all know that Barcelona are the best club in the world so I think I made a great decision to be here and I hope to help the team. Of course it is a step forward in my career and hopefully I can help the team win things. I want to play and help this squad, and if the team does it well, I will be happy individually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to send a big hug to everyone, to all the supporters I will try to give my best and hopefully the fans will enjoy my skills. They enjoyed me in other shirts but now I am here. I have changed a little bit. When I arrived in Europe to Atletico Madrid at 18 years old, I learned a lot, then I played for Manchester City in the Premier League. Now I have changed my way of playing, but I have an idea of where I can play and I will try to help my team-mates with my experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/soccer\/manchestercity\/news\/sergio-aguero-releases-heartfelt-statement-addressed-to-man-city-fans-after-departure-confirmed\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> at the end of March thanking Aguero for his contribution to the club&#8217;s success over the past decade. Pep Guardiola <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gX8GswLLYBo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid an emotional tribute<\/a> to the forward after his final appearance at the Etihad in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rPyoC2MoTOtL9Y_8eXADRQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1320991579\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'rPyoC2MoTOtL9Y_8eXADRQ',sig:'9SZWfKkz9G4EsAC4bfilqfYmhmWOasUwB5hEf9mkycs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1320991579',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being presented to the media at Camp Nou, Sergio Aguero discussed his move to Barcelona after not being given a new contract by Manchester City. Sergio Aguero Opens Up on Barcelona Move The Striker is Excited for a &#8216;Step Forward&#8217; in His Career Aguero will leave Manchester City as the club&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,6,30,28],"tags":[100,377],"class_list":["post-592836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barcelona","category-la-liga","category-news","category-transfers","tag-manchester-city","tag-sergio-aguero"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}