Sergio Aguero critical of Man City for selling Raheem Sterling to Chelsea

Sergio Aguero has questioned his former club over the decision to sell Raheem Sterling this summer.

Manchester City allowed Sterling to leave after entering the final 12 months of his contract when Premier League rivals Chelsea came in with a £47.5m bid. Sterling followed Gabriel Jesus out of the Etihad exit door in a summer that has seen the Blues set a new record for most money raised in a transfer window but at the cost of experience and dynamic forward play.

Pep Guardiola does have new signings Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez in his squad this season, two exciting additions that have high expectations but may also need time to acclimatise to the football played both at City and in England.

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Aguero knows better than anyone how to score goals in a City team, having smashed his way to the top of the club's all-time scoring list during ten incredible years. The former marksman played with Sterling for six of those seasons, and in a discussion about strikers old and new at the Etihad he criticised the logic behind one of the most high-profile deals of the summer.

"I don't understand the sale of Sterling, there are times they make strange decisions," he said of City.

The Blues were open to keeping Sterling and had previously sought to tie him down to a new deal, but the player had decided he wanted a new challenge after failing to get the game time that he wanted during his final 18 months under Guardiola.

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