SERGIO AGUERO RECEIVES A KING'S RANDSOM

Manchester City has paid a club record transfer sum of £38m for the services of Sergio Aguero an Argentine player. The club has agreedto the terms in his contract, which allows the former Athletico Madrid centre-forward to earn a staggering £200,000 per-week paycheck. The contract's wage bill is worth £52m in total, which is expected to be paid over the five-year period.

The centre- forward stands 1.72cm tall and has close ball control, coupled with fast direct bursts of speed towards the opponents goal.

Sergio Augero will never forget the first time he played in the United Kingdom. Five years ago, at the tender age of 18 he stood ready to come on as a substitute during Argentina’s clash with Brazil, at the Emirates Stadium. The man he replaced? Carlos Tevez.

When Sergio Augero was just 8 years old, a family member told Independiente to give him a trial run at the club. They signed him on the spot.

A month and three days after his 15th birthday, he made his Argentinian debut, in the process breaking the national record, which stood for 27 years held by the infamous Diego Maradona, who was 10 days short of his 16th birthday when he made his international debut for their country.

Having scored 23 goals out of 56 appearances, he was soon attracting the attention of more larger clubs.

Atletico Madrid signed him up for£15.6m. At the time a record transfer sum for a Argentinian player.

He found his first La Liga season (Spanish First Division) to be quite difficult as he struggled to adapt to thefaster pace and more physical defenders. He leaned on fellow teammate, Fernando Torres for support.

Sadly, he did not take part in the Fifa World Cup 2006 in Germany, even though there were appeals for Jose Pekerman (then manager of Argentina) to include him into the squad. However, a year after the disappointment, he went on to win the Under-20 Fifa World Cup with Argentina and in the process received the Golden Ball award for being the tournament’s best player.

He began to thrive at Athletico Madrid after Spaniard Fernando Torres left for Liverpool FC during the summer of 2007 and scored more than 20 goals in each of his last four seasons at the club.

Athletico Madrid fans reacted badly to Aguero’s departure, burning his shirt and chanting ‘die, die’ in the Europa League.

Sergio Augero spoke highly of his new club [Man City] and working in the Premier League, saying “ Zabaleta has told me all about City and it is very positive.'I have always wanted to play in the Premier League and this is a good club. I think we will be fighting every year to win major trophies’.

'I think in terms of technique the leagues are similar. Maybe the game is more physical in England and there is a greater emphasis on tactics in Spain. From what I've seen on TV there is a high level of skill here. It is quite different but I need to wait for my first game, go out and do my best. My style has always been to fight to the death for every ball, and give 100 per cent in every game’.

‘I'm not a player who can do everything, but I still have plenty to offer. I don't think I'll have too many problems settling into the team’. He started dating Diego Maradona’s daughter in 2008 and is reportedly happily married to her and they are proud parents of a young son.

Finally, when not kicking a ball around, the young Sergio Augero was glued to a Japanese cartoon called ‘The Adventures of Kum Kum’, which soon became corrupted to produce the nick-name which has stuck throughout his career – Kun.