In 10 years spent at Manchester City, Sergio Agüero will have rarely engaged in the exercise of the interview. Perhaps also for fear of being misunderstood despite his mastery of the language of Shakespeare. In the podcast The Rest Is Football alongside Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker, his former teammate Micah Richards also delivered juicy revelations on the subterfuges used by the Argentinian to dodge the media.
“He was brilliant at English, but he refused to speak it, arguing that he didn’t know the languagelaughs Micah Richards. Really, when asked to do interviews, he would say, ‘I don’t speak English,’ which was not true. He even knew slang expressions, although, of course, that’s not the same as talking to your friends. But he played a lot and succeeded in avoiding interviews.»
