Sergio Aguero will be available for Manchester City’s opening Premier League match, the visit of Newcastle United on August 19th. The striker is set to return to training by the end of the week after a knee injury ruled him out of the club’s pre-season games.
The news is a boost for Manuel Pellegrini as the new manager attempts to reclaim the championship for City. Aguero’s last appearance was in a 5-3 win over Chelsea in New York in late May during City’s mini-tour of America.
By the time of Newcastle’s visit it will be nearly three months since the Argentina forward has played and whether Pellegrini will name him in the starting XI remains in the balance.
The manager is without his key central defender Matija Nastasic for up to six weeks after the ankle injury he suffered in the Asia Trophy in Hong Kong.