5 of the best debut seasons in Premier League history

#4: Sergio Aguero

Sergio Aguero's last-gasp goal against QPR won Manchester City the Premier League title in the striker's debut season

When Manchester City – newly minted thanks to the Abu Dhabi United Group buying out the club in the summer of 2008 – spent a fee close to £38m to bring Argentine striker Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid to the Etihad in the summer of 2011, a lot of fans were upset at the flexing of financial muscle. By the end of the 2011/12 season though, nobody could deny the impact that ‘Kun’ had on the club.

Aguero took just 9 minutes to score his first Premier League goal after coming on as a second-half substitute in a game against Swansea City, and by the time the game ended he’d scored 2 and created 1, with his performance being hailed as one of the all-time best Premier League debuts.

From there, the Argentine striker simply didn’t slow down at all. He scored 8 goals in his first 5 Premier League games – equalling Micky Quinn’s record from the inaugural Premier League season – and finished the season with 23 goals in the league and 30 in all competitions.

Of course, most notably, Aguero scored the most important goal of the season on the final day of the competition – hitting the winner in a 3-2 victory against Queens Park Rangers to secure City’s first ever Premier League title win.

Even if he’d been disappointing outside of that, such an important goal alone would probably net him a spot on this list – but the fact that he was fantastic throughout means his debut season was possibly the best of them all.