Been at city for 6 years and still can't do an interview in English, dunno about anyone else but I think that's bloody shameful!

He's reasonable at football though....often people don't learn the lingo of a country they move to like the tens of thousands of brits who move to Spain or Cyprus. Live there for decades without ever speaking anything but English and eating chips.

Premier league clubs have their own English teachers and anybody who lives in a country doing a very high profile and public job where interviews are common then you would think they'd have the decency to learn a bit of the lingo!

Agreed, six years no speaky the englandish.

I saw that interview and must admit I was shocked he speaks no English.
Mind was wondering how the question was translated to him for him to then answer, and the translator related it?

He clearly understands English. He even laughed at the interviewer when he joked about the translator being there. Maybe he's just not confident doing a live interview in a second language?

I've worked in France for 5 years, have a very basic grasp of language to get by in restaurants and supermarkets etc as don't need it to do my job (which is all conducted in English). I wouldn't be able to conduct and interview in French either because it takes a lot of time and effort to get past the basics of a new language. As per the above post I can comprehend more ch more than I am able to respond.

Shameful hey!!! Interestingly all these foreign types the Brits all hate are very nice and don't look down on me for it (even if most of them are all bi or multi lingual)

What's shameful about it is the fact they have teachers,paid for by the club. virtually every other foreign player who comes over seems to pick it up and conducts interviews in English. Does it not just look lazy in front of other players who put the effort in!

Oh and I have no problem with foreign players,I just find it unusual that after six years he can't string a few sentences together, I'd respect him a lot more if he tried!

I have a massive problem with them to be honest they all want scattering back where they came from.

Only this way will we ever get control of our borders.

It makes me sick to be honest as we English are leading lights when it comes to this and would never lazily expect all of those around us who have been multi lingual since school to simply speak English around us. Look at Joey Barton when he went to France and Steve McLaren in Holland, they both picked up the lingo within days and sounded like locals.

Slick, lucid, witty grasp of the language or the ability to bang goals in ?
Difficult choice, but as he's employed as a footballer and not a Media news anchorman or chat show host, I'll opt for the goals banging in option.

You're very much misinformed. He does speak English, not very confidently but some people find languages hard not least of all English. There's videos on YouTube of him speaking English where he's not sure of certain words but gets his message across well enough.
Don't let facts stop your passionate outrage though.

Concurring with Mr Dalton here. After seven years my French would probably sound quite good to most English people but if I did a TV interview in French there'd be plenty of viewers pissing themselves laughing. Difficult to get really good when you work in an industry that operates in English.

If he has enough English for day to day use but prefers a translator for interviews because he thinks he might say the wrong thing by accident that's fair enough. Look at the way the tabloids hang on every word top players say - best to be careful.

Same here, but for Kiswahili rather than French. Enough to impress people who don't speak it and to get by when needed, but to your average Tanzanian it would sound laughable. It got pretty good about three years ago when I was with a Kenyan girl. When that ended I lost motivation. The school I'm at encourages the kids to speak English (it's a British school with a British education) and that doesn't help either.

Dear god, Im not expecting full blown sentences out of his mouth. Just a simple yes,no, we play very well, I try my best for team, I am happy with my goals etc etc would do! He earns enough of the fans money to at least say a little in English to them!

I'd rather target the interviews where sportsmen are expected to appear after gruelling performances and answer stupid questions from prats.

So you want him to learn tedious banalities? Really? Don't we get enough of that from most other footballers? If he was playing for my team I'd be interested in how well he played football, not something as wholly irrelevant as his ability to speak a language.[/quote]

Yes, I'd rather see him having a try as tedious as it may be to some! At least the others are having a try,why should he be any different?! If it had been a year or two then fair enough but 6 years is a long time in my opinion!.

Even Gazza mada an effort
http://www.101greatgoals.com/.../paul-g ... ios-offi...

He signing for Pools like?

What a pointless thread, and I've read threads by Tree...

We should also factor in the trickiness of the English language. I don't mean your normal grammar and vocab, more the oddities of the language. For example, consider the following two sentences:

She looks a vision.
She looks a sight.

If you're learning English then surely vision and sight are essentially the same aren't they?

No fecker is signing for Pools, that's why we end up talking about such trivial matters!

Valencia at Man U cant speak English either can he? He been here a lot longer than Aguero too I think.

Tree has been using computers for years but still hasn't managed to grasp the use of Caps Lock.

I was thinking about a mistake along these lines:

Manchester lose a match and Aguero plays badly.

Reporter: How are you feeling?

Aguero thinks in Spanish: I'm unhappy because I played badly which always makes me feel shite. I've had enough of this interview and I'm knackered - I want to go and get changed and go home.

Aguero says in English: I'm unhappy, as usual. I want to leave now.

Reporter immediately files an exclusive about Aguero wanting a transfer.

He COULD use the Aitor Karanka method.."Errrrrrrr, Ayyyyyyyyee, Errrrrrr....."

Says a lot but says nowt!

Sounds familiar!!

Pools have had plenty of players that were english but couldnt speak a word of it.

How can we critisise foreigners for not speaking english when most english footballers cant make one sentence make sense.

It seems like we expect foreign players to be intelligent but we alow most english players to be as thick as mince.

Anyone remember Paul Smith ever being interviewed?

By the way, that interview where the rogue Aguero couldn't be bothered to speak English, was the interviewer on stilts? The two footballers were almost breaking their necks trying to look him in the eye.

cash me outside howbow dah?

As a Pools supporter & season ticket holder from the 1960's and a Manchester City supporter & season ticket holder since living in Manchester from 1985, I can reassure all those interested Poolies that Sergio understands and speaks English!
He is a shy individual who is wary of press attention and journo's agendas.
This is no wonder given Raheem Sterling's diabolical treatment by the media who have even Huddersfield fans last night booing his name as it was read out.
I Like to celebrate the fact we can see the wonderful talent of Sergio's goals in English football & the ' Aguero moment 'that won the title in such a unique way in the last minutes of a league season.

It's Agüero's reprisal for nobody bothering to spell his name correctly in English.



Well, nobody except me.

I hope he doesn't read The Bunker.

If he does then all of his millions in the bank won't be enough to help him get over your lack of respect for him.