“I almost joined Chelsea because of him” “I love Chelsea too” – Sergio Aguero reveals how he almost joined Chelsea because of Chelsea star
Before deciding to join Manchester City, Frank Lampard reportedly begged Chelsea to sign him, according to Manchester City legend Sergio Aguero.
Over the years, Chelsea has acquired a good number of strikers, with varied degrees of success. However, most of them have fallen short of expectations.
Over the past 20 years, the Blues have truly battled to find a top-tier striker aside from Didier Drogba and Diego Costa, with players like Fernando Torres, Alvaro Morata, and Andriy Shevchenko all falling short of expectations.
Sergio Aguero could have joined Chelsea?
For all the strikers the Blues did sign it appears they missed out one of the best in Premier League history despite signalling their intent.
Aguero, who is the fifth highest scorer in the competition’s history with 184 goals, revealed that Chelsea were interested in signing him after coming up against him in a Champions League game in 2009, but never followed up on their interest.
“After that game [for Atletico Madrid against Chelsea in 2009], my agent told me they were interested in signing me”, the Argentine told The Club YouTube channel.
“I love the Premier League, I wanted to play there, but Chelsea never really followed up their interest after that.”
Aguero also said that after Lampard joined City in 2014 the Chelsea legend told him how he had asked the Chelsea board to sign him in 2010.
“I spoke about that with Frank Lampard because Frank Lampard played at Manchester City,” Aguero added.
“He said when I played against him, he told the staff at Chelsea to sign Aguero.”
The prospect of Aguero linking up with the likes of Lampard, Drogba, Juan Mata and Eden Hazard is mouth watering, but knowing Chelsea’s luck with signing strikers he wouldn’t have lived up to expectations and his career would have turned out very differently.