Manchester City legends Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure have been included in a 25-man shortlist of players looking to be inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame.
The trio, who helped form the spine of the City team that won the club's first-ever Premier League title in 2012, will be looking to follow the lead of former City and Arsenal midfielder Patrick Vieira who was inducted on Wednesday. If any of them make it, then they would be the first City legends to do so.
Supporters can vote for who they want to be inducted until 9pm on Sunday 3rd April at www.premierleague.com/halloffame. The question is: which of the three City heroes is most deserving of a place in the Premier League's pantheon of greats?
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Sergio Aguero
Aguero is a shoo-in to enter the Hall of Fame at some point over the next few years, if not this year. The Hall of Fame simply cannot claim to be complete without the inclusion of one of the league's greatest ever goalscorers.
Kun's 184 Premier League goals rank him as the division's fourth-highest all-time scorer, with only Alan Shearer, Wayne Rooney and Andy Cole having scored more. He is also the top-scoring overseas player in Premier League history while his minutes-per-goal ratio of 108 minutes is 14 minutes better than any other player with at least 10 goals.
Aguero was of course responsible for arguably the greatest moment in Premier League history, his dramatic last-gasp winner on the final day of the 2011/12 season securing City's first-ever Premier League title at the expense of rivals Manchester United. Then there is his record at City; with 360 goals he is the Blues' all-time leading goalscorer.
Statistics aside, to watch Aguero was to watch a killer hunting down defenders in any number of ways. Few, if any, strikers in the division have been able to combine agility, pace, power, technical brilliance and an eye for a goal quite like Aguero did.
Vincent Kompany
There is only so much you can say about Vinny before you start tearing up at the fact he is no longer strutting around the Etihad Stadium with sky blue on his back and the captain's armband strapped to his bicep.
With his gutsy performances, rallying cries, important goals and countless heroic returns from injury, the captain encapsulated the fighting spirit and never-say-die attitude of the club. Were it not for his injuries, fans of other clubs would probably regard him as highly as City fans do.
Over 11 seasons at City Kompany made 265 Premier League appearances, keeping 94 clean sheets and scoring 18 goals. He lifted four league titles and won the Premier League Player of the Season for his efforts in 2011/12. He might have been a centre-back but he still managed to score two goals which had a huge impact in two title races; his bullet header against United in 2012 and his long-range rocket against Leicester in 2019.
Yaya Toure is, without doubt, one of the greatest midfielders to ever grace the Premier League. Possessing the vision and technical ability of a playmaker and the physical power of a box-to-box midfielder, Toure was a nightmare for opposition defenders to deal with.
Over the course of eight Premier League seasons, Toure made 230 appearances, scoring a staggering 59 goals and assisting another 35. His time in Manchester included an incredible 2013/14 campaign during which he scored 20 goals, only two shy of Frank Lampard's 22 in 2009/10, the record return for a midfielder in a single Premier League season.
Toure's time at City is perhaps remembered less fondly than Kompany and Aguero's, thanks to a few incidents including the infamous birthday cake saga and a public dispute with Pep Guardiola in 2016/17. Regardless, there is no denying that without his goals in the early years - particularly his FA Cup strikes in 2011 and his double against Newcastle in 2012 - City would not be where they are today.
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