Sergio Aguero is a bona fide legend for Manchester City, proudly sitting atop of the club's list of all-time top scorers – and also bagging the most iconic goal the club has ever seen during his time there as well.
But that didn't stop Pep Guardiola once dropping him for being "too fat". The Argentine was at the Etihad for a decade and won a boatload of trophies on his way to notching 260 goals.
But he has now told the story of the time when Guardiola stood him down after his weight went above the accepted threshold of the Spaniard's exhaustive body stats.
Picking up the story, Aguero told El Chiringuito : "If your ideal weight is 79 to 80 kilograms, and you were 80.1 kilograms, you would be fined, and you don’t play.
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"But it can happen. You come across a little bit of chicken for example, then you are going to be 50 grams over. In the first season (after Guardiola arrived) we were between fourth and third and he said; 'I left you out because you turned up fat this week'.
"And what was I going to say? He was right. These things happen. He said it in a good way and at this time I did not really have his confidence. But I was always very respectful to the coaches."
Aguero certainly repaid his manager and they won three titles in five seasons together before he left for Barcelona in the summer of 2021, only to be forced into retirement just months later on health grounds.
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