That a club with the riches of Manchester City would start a season where they should be challenging for the Premier League title with Sergio Aguero their only established - and sufficiently effective - striker was rather strange.

In the Argentine they have one of the finest ever strikers ever to grace the Premier League, but also an injury prone player who never manages a full season, and while Wilfried Bony continues to provide little to prove he is of the quality required to play at that level, another option has been a necessity.