‘What Guardiola did’ - Sergio Aguero delivers verdict on Man City’s season – EXCLUSIVE

Sergio Aguero believes Manchester City’s drop-off was always on the horizon. City’s all-time top goalscorer is still keeping a close eye on his former club despite being moving out of the UK.

He spends his time largely working as an entrepreneur, finding new business ventures - including recently taking part in Formula E's Evo Sessions - as well as streaming to his sizeable Twitch audience. City, meanwhile, are to relinquish the Premier League title for the first time in half a decade, with Liverpool poised to be crowned champions after an impressive campaign.

But Pep Guardiola’s men are languishing outside of the top four and face the real prospect of missing out on Champions League football altogether next season if form does not improve. However, Aguero says that a drop-off might not be the worst thing and a chance to reset could be helpful.

“The situation is not good, but I think that at some point this was going to happen,” he told the Mirror. “I think that Manchester City are one of the best teams in the world. At the end of the day, a bad season for a big team is obviously a complicated situation, but the thing you have to remember with Manchester City is that they've been winning titles for many years.

"What Guardiola did, winning titles so often, I don't think anyone has done that before. That's a merit in itself and something that we have to value because normally, winning everything in season one, two, three, four and then one doesn't go well, I don't think it's a bad thing.”

Aguero also heaped praise on Erling Haaland for his role at City since joining. The Norwegian is already almost halfway to beating Aguero’s record-setting 260 goals for the club, in around about a quarter of the time.

Aguero wants Haaland to break his record - and believes that he is the key man to getting City back to their glories of earlier this decade. Asked if he thinks Haaland will break his record, Aguero said: “I hope so! He's a great player, he's very close. I think he can be the one to get close to the goals I have, or even pass me.

“That's a very nice thing in sport, and I hope that all those goals that he can score will help Manchester City to win titles. I think he will have many more successes, with goals and with titles.

“The goals can give him a record which can stay in history. For me, he's a phenomenon, he's a great scorer and I hope he stays at City and scores a lot of goals.”

Aguero now largely spends his working days as an entrepreneur, but wishes that he could still be out on the pitch. While his career was cut short for health reasons, he had hoped to stay at City for longer before he was shown the door.

He said: “I had the contract until 2021 and Manchester City, five or six months before, told me that they weren't going to renew me. So I started looking for a club and that's how it was. Obviously, I wanted to continue because for me, City was my home. I wanted maybe one more year especially because I was willing to be on the bench if necessary.

“In the last year I had already been playing occasionally with Pep, so I was willing to help from another side because I felt that staying one more year in the Premier League, even from the bench and playing little, would serve me physically for the World Cup.

“But you have to understand that the club also needed changes. It was a decision of the club and I think it was also very correct, because they also needed a replacement and maybe staying at City to be there as a substitute wasn't the right thing for the club. So the best thing was to look for a club and that's how it was. It was their decision and I obviously took it very well.”

Sergio Aguero was taking part in Formula E Evo Sessions. Follow his journey on his and Formula E’s social platforms.