Dublin sees Aguero unveiling by City
Manchester City have unveiled their new €40m man, Sergio Aguero, at the Aviva Stadium tonight.
However, City boss Roberto Mancini has said the player needs time to rest which means he won't be playing in the Dublin Super Cup this weekend.
Mancini wouldn’t even confirm that Aguero will debut in tomorrow week’s Community Shield clash with Manchester United, saying only that he hoped he would be “available”.
Aguero said: "In five years I have only had one holiday so I’m used to it. One week of rest and a couple of days of training and I’ll be ready to play.”
The manager went on to say that the acquisition of the former Atletico Madrid man is not the final piece in the City jigsaw this season.
Mancini said: "We still want to get a midfielder and another winger. If we want to compete with the top teams, in the Premiership and England, we need other players."
Of Carlos Tevez, Mancini said: "Carlos remains part of the first team squad. Carlos for us is an important player but anything can happen in the next few days. But if Carlos stays, I am happy."
As the inaugural Dublin Super Cup kicks off today, Cork City’s Danny Murphy is included in Damien Richardson’s starting Airtricity XI team for the game against Manchester City, the manager trusting to a core of Derry City players to meet the challenge of one of the world’s wealthiest clubs with a line-up which reads: Doherty, Madden, Greacan, McEleney, Murphy, O’Brien, Molloy (capt), Higgins, McClean, Zayed and Kavanagh.
Much of the attention will be focussed on Derry’s James McClean, with Richardson optimistic the highly-rated Derry winger will have recovered from a dead leg.
McClean, already linked with Wigan, Reading, Blackpool and Peterborough, can also expect to be closely monitored by Celtic this weekend.
