Sergio Aguero MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – MARCH 05: Sergio Aguero of Manchester City celebrates scoring his team’s third goal during the Barclays Premier League match between Manchester City and Aston Villa at Etihad Stadium on March 5, 2016 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

It can’t hurt to keep thinking about the future, even if you’re the ultra-talented Sergio Aguero. His current five year contract keeps him at the Etihad Stadium until the end of the 2018-19 season, and by that point he will leave… to head home and play for his first club Independiente and “retire there”.

He told an Argentine radio station “it’s clear” he’ll return home and “retire there”.

“Here (at City) they know what I want to do, they know I want to return to Argentina,” he added.

“My family know that I am going to go there when my contract with Manchester City finishes in 2018.”

Something may have been lost in translation there, because Aguero’s contract with City actually runs through 2019, not 2018.

Just weeks ago, reports had emerged that Aguero was set to retire in Manchester City blue, and was also set to sign a contract extension that would tie him to City until 2020. There had been rumors at the same time that Aguero may have wanted to return to Spain, where he thrived up until 2011 when he completed his big money move from Atletico Madrid to Manchester City, and where he still has multiple friends.

In his pre-match press conference on Friday, outgoing City manager Manuel Pellegrini addressed the comments and stated that he believes that Aguero will be with City beyond 2019, even if he himself won’t be with City beyond June.

“It’s a decision that Sergio knows why he wants to do it,” said the Chilean.

“It’s difficult to talk about what will happen in two or three years more because players change their minds.

“Maybe he can be happy to return to Argentina – but Kun has a lot more years here in Europe.”

Aguero has already said he feels comfortable with Pep Guardiola, the incoming Manchester City manager, but the confusion about the Argentine dynamo’s future continues without end, it seems.

[BBC/ESPNFC/Manchester Evening News]

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