Top 5 City Goal Scorers

1.   Shaun Goater

He played for City between 1998 and 2003; after being bought by Joe Royle for £400,000 from Bristol City. When I first laid eyes on him I couldn’t believe how bad he looked, gangly, ungainly and with a first touch like a baby elephant; he didn’t fill me with hope. How wrong I was. Goater quickly settled in and scored 21 goals in his first season to fire City to promotion to division 1.

My favourites memories of our Shaun are the 2001/02 season when at the start of the season he seemed to score every game and had bagged something like 25 goals by the time Halloween had rolled around.

2.   Carlos Tevez

Joined City from United (although he was technically never a ‘United’ player) in summer 2009. talkSport broke the news first and it was like waiting for Christmas for the move to be formally announced.

After a slow start when Adebayor grabbed the early headlines, Tevez burst into life and scored 29 goals in his first season. He scored 23 goals the next season and lifted the FA Cup. Prior to the arrival of the likes of Yaya, Silva, Aguero and Nasri, Carlos almost carried the team creativity wise and was always the go to man when City needed something to happen.

3.   Sergio Aguero

“Aguerooooooooooooooooooo……….” Will forever be remembered for that moment back in May. Bought as a replacement for Tevez (who had asked for a transfer) Sergio arrived from Athletico Madrid and made an immediate impact. Brought on with 20 minutes left in the season’s opener against Swansea he scored a tap in with his first touch, brilliantly set up Silva then rounded it off with a long distance strike.

Strong, skilful, quick he scored 30 goals (23 league) in his debut season, there is still much more to come from Kun.

4.   Nicolas Anelka

Often forgotten due to our recent superstar signings, ‘Le Sulk’ was a coup by Keegan when he bought him in 2002 to provide the fire power for the new Premier League campaign.

Opened his account with two goals in a home win over Everton and scored the opener in the 3-1 win over United. Had his moments at City but he mostly led the line brilliantly when he often had to manufacture his own chances. His goal scoring stats are just shy of a goal every other game, which in a mid table at best side; is a great return.

Eventually left in January 2005 to join Fernerbache.

5.   Uwe Rosler

Nicknamed Herr Bomber, Rosler was brought in during early 1994 after then Chairman Francis Lee was tipped off about the former East German internationals availability. Scored three for the reserves before quickly establishing himself in the first team.

The team were poor at the time but he quickly struck up great partnerships with Paul Walsh, Nicky Summerbee and Peter Beagrie. Uwe went on to play 181 games for City scoring 65 goals in the process. Probably our best player until Kinkladze arrived.

Grant Mills

@mancinismarvels