Tuesday gossip

Heads up, there's a new kid in town. He's a striker, he's good at, er, scoring goals, and Sergio Aguerro has made an immediate impact with the headline writers as well as the fans.
"Instant hit" bellows the Mail above Chris Wheeler's back-pager on the two-goal debut that helped ruin the Swans' maiden Premier League flight, "Power Serg" chuckles the Daily Star.

The Sun prefers "Power Sergio" on Neil Custis's despatch from the Etihad, and those clever sub-editor chaps at the Mirror come up with "Welkun to Manchester", which we hereby declare the winner.

The heavyweights were in the Press box, and not just to sample the delicious half-time pies. Martin Samuel, the Mail's big hitter, gives a thumbs up that will warm the hearts of Blues fans.

His report runs: "He did not change the game, because it looked won when he came on, but Sergio Aguero may yet change something far greater than a home fixture with Swansea City on a wet Monday night.

"The destination of the Premier League title, more than four decades of mockery and ridicule, the history of a football club, who knows?

"It may only have been the newbies who were laid waste to here but in delivering quite the most electrifying debut of recent memory, Aguero served notice of a significant threat to the Premier League order, the greatest since the days of Jack Walker’s Blackburn Rovers."

Hang on, Martin, he's not even 100 per cent yet. As your paper's back-page sub-deck quotes Roberto Mancini, "You wait until he's fit!" And Joe Hart's verdict? "He's decent." How did we guess?

Roberto's stand-out, five-star quote, by the way, on a night that promises so much for this season, is that "Silva and Aguerro play the same language". Now we're talking ...

Garry Cook's not, at least, not about Samir Nasri, which is perfectly understandable given that he's an Arsenal player, though football365.com seem to be a bit irked.

They harrumph: "Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook on Monday night refused to be drawn on the possibility of Samir Nasri joining the club from Arsenal."

But as they also report, Cooky - we can call you Cooky, can't we, boss? - happily gave 5Live an inkling that Aguerro and unsettled fellow Argentine Carlos Tevez will play together.

He's quoted: "He (Tevez) is still a Manchester City player and to see him playing alongside Aguero is going to be pretty exciting for all the City fans."

Asked on radio whether Tevez will be at City in September, Garry added: "I've not spoken to anybody about anything that will dispel that notion."

Sometimes a great notion like that deserves to come to fruition. More goals, anyone?