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Updated 11am
MANCHESTER CITY STRIKER Sergio Aguero “sustained injuries” in a car crash in the Netherlands, the club has confirmed.
Media in Aguero’s home country Argentina had been covering the accident for some hours before it was confirmed to the British press.
“Sergio Aguero will be assessed by club doctors today after being involved in a road accident on Thursday. The City forward was in Holland on his day off and has sustained injuries,” said Manchester City’s statement.
The prolific 29-year-old will return to Manchester this morning and will be assessed ahead of City’s Premier League clash at Chelsea tomorrow.
Dutch police previously told Sky News that two individuals were hospitalised after the taxi in which they were travelling struck a lamp-post – however their names were not confirmed.
Police spokesman Frans Zuiderhoek told AFP that officers attended an accident in the city at around 10pm Irish time after “a taxi cab hit a lamp-post”.
He could not confirm the identities of the two passengers and the driver, who all asked to remain anonymous.
“No other vehicles were involved,” he said early this morning, adding that the three people in the taxi “have been transferred to hospital for observation… but there were no bad injuries”.
The accident occurred on De Boelelaan street, said Zuiderhoek, not far from the Arena A where Colombian singer Maluma performed last night.
It’s believed that Aguero was in Amsterdam to attend a concert by the singer, and that he was travelling to Schiphol Airport to catch a flight back to Manchester when the accident happened.
The striker had posted a picture of himself with Maluma to his Instagram account earlier in the evening thanking him for an invitation.
Argentinian daily newspaper El Dia reports that Aguero has fractured a rib and will miss the forthcoming international fixtures with Peru and Ecuador.
Aguero has been playing for the Manchester club in the Premier League since 2011, winning two Premier Leagues in that time..
Although rumours had surrounded the relationship between Aguero and City manager Pep Guardiola in recent times, the striker has started the 2016-17 season with a bang, and currently stands top of the scoring charts with six goals from six games.
With © – AFP, 2017
RIP, can’t wait for 2016 to end ….
Legend. .R.I.P Rick… the opening rif to Caroline respect..
R.I.P Rick ..Rool Over Lay Down
RI.P.Rick ..Roll Over Lay Down
@829nza:R.I.P Rick ..Roll over Lay Down.
@829nza: R.I.P Rick ..Roll Over Lay Down
Totally agree with you friend. It’s been truly awful. I loved the quo.
@Steve Austin: One more song… One more song!
Sorry for multiple comments. .Journal App took a figaire
Why cant a bunch of politicians be taken instead?
@829nza: Feck off 2016, just feck off why don’t you.
“Rocking all over the world” adored that song,i think they opened up live aid in 1985 with that song. RIP another one gone
Christ. Not another one. RIP
Ah here 2016 would you ever fukk off with yourself & do something useful & go after Beiber or Kanye.
I don’t get why people would wish others would die instead . Beiber is a young lad with his life ahead of him and kanye has a couple young kids . I don’t like either of them but I would wish them dead ..
*Wouldn’t *
Thoughts and prayers are with his family, another star gone from our sky’s tonight
Saw Status Quo at Wembley Stadium in 1986. Queen headlined with The Alarm and INXS also. They were great craic live and had us all head banging even though most of us there for Queen. Thanks for the great memories.
Another victim of 2016…vicious. RIP
He’s in the army with the great up above
RIP. His guitar intro to Caroline was always sensational and wrote some beautiful songs for Quo like Living on an Island. A true rocker.
R.I.P.
A true rock and roller, not like our two best known sanctimonious hypocrites.
That’s no way to speak about Foster and Alan
Matt Donovan I couldn’t agree with you more.
The coke finaly took its toll .
This is not the time or place to get on your high horse about sugary drinks.
Status Quo brought fun to Rock RIP Rick
Very sad..
Prince might teach him a forth chord. RIP
His family were considering cremating him, but decided to bury him down, down, deeper and down.
Gutted. If there is a heaven he’ll be seeing his little Heidi again. Her death at two years old in the swimming pool really knocked him. He was one of the nicest, gentlest, funniest guys in the business. God’s band is about to rock. RIP Rick. Let ‘em’ ave it.
RIP to a legend. I loved Yellow Brick Road
Eff you, 2016. Eff you in the A
@Daisy Chai NSaw: Pop stars are starting to enter old age, so 2017 will probably be just as bad.
@Eamon. You hit the nail on the head there. A lot of the rock stars of the 60s and 70s are getting old, many in there 70s now. It’s kind of inevitable that, because of the lives of excess they lived in their hay day, that it’s taking its toll now. RIP Rick, one of my favourite Status Quo songs is “Mystery Song” which has Rick on lead vocal. Just gave it a blast a few mins ago, still sounds great.
R.I.P Rick… Rool Over Lay Down
2016 isn’t finished yet. Glad to see the back of it given the loss of so many legends. RIP Rick.
God, I think you got your take and not to take list mixed up.
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