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Should Sergio Aguero have been in Amsterdam? Simon Jordan and Danny Mills debate

Manchester City's Argentinian striker Sergio Aguero reacts during the Group F football match between Manchester City and Shakhtar Donetsk at the Etihad Sta
Image: Sergio Aguero was in a car accident on Thursday

Should any blame be attached to Sergio Aguero or Manchester City after the striker was involved in a car crash in Amsterdam on Thursday? That was debated by Simon Jordan and Danny Mills on The Debate.

Aguero is likely to be out of action for around four weeks after breaking a rib in a road accident around 11pm while visiting the Dutch capital for a music concert.

City boss Pep Guardiola said he had "no problem" with Aguero being in Amsterdam on his day off, even though it was just 48 hours before a crucial Premier League clash at Chelsea.

However, former Crystal Palace owner Jordan told The Debate on Sky Sports Premier League that he thought Guardiola did not look "particularly amused" when he discussed Aguero's accident on Friday.

"The easiest thing to avoid it would have been not to be there in the first place," he said. "You have a big week and a big game on Saturday, so why would that be the week that you get on a jet and go somewhere else?

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"What should he do? Do what everyone does, occupy your time in a manner which is productive to the profession you are in. You are in a position of privilege.

"Too often we get into the territory of how much players are paid as a reason to why they shouldn't be able to do this and do that, but I take it another way, in that there is an element of professionalism, obligation and a great deal of responsibility with the position the players operate in. They get six weeks in the summer to do what they please.

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"Perhaps it becomes incumbent on the club to sit down with players and say on a week where you are playing Champions League football you shouldn't go away. But then he could have gone away on another week and still had this accident. It's a difficult one.

"The club are complicit in the controversy that will reverberate. The real controversy is the fact he is out of the country."

Former England defender Mills did not agree with Jordan's assessment and said it was a "very unfortunate accident".

"I don't have an issue with it whatsoever, he has a day off so he goes and relaxes," he said.

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Footage of the scene after Sergio Aguero's car crash in Amsterdam

"This could have been anywhere. It could have been a taxi going to Manchester or driving to the coast. It's an hour flight and the club would have known. You have to give details of where you are 24 hours a day because of drug testing, and his agent was with him.

"He wasn't driving, he wasn't drunk. It's a very unfortunate accident. Pep is annoyed because he has lost one of his star players. But it wasn't preventable. It could have happened anywhere.

"You can't wrap him up in the cotton wool. What if it has been an awards dinner? Do you say he can't go because we have a game?"

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City will now be without Aguero when they visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday, with Gabriel Jesus likely to lead the line instead.

But Mills said he is not worried that City will struggle offensively.

"Going forward their attacking line-up is one of the best in Europe. Pep can rotate, play a false nine, I don't have an issue with their forward line," he said.

"But they haven't really come up against a challenge where they get tested going the other way. That may well happen against Chelsea and that will be a real test of what City are made of."

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