Greatness has recognised greatness.It seems like an eternity ago that Manchester City were playing at their spiritual home Maine Road – when Pep Guardiola was a mere speck on the footballing landscape and the likes of Sergio Aguero, Kevin de Bruyne, David Silva were probably blissfully unaware of the club’s existence.Watch Manchester City Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv Below

Before the petrodollars of Sheikh Mansour flushed into the club, and with it global recognition and scouting networks that extend to the far reaches of the earth, there existed a champion, a goal-scoring fiend and legend by the name of Shaun Goater – or as his official Twitter account states: ‘Shaun Goater MBE (Feed The Goat)’.

Goater is apparently just one of 16 City players who have reached the 100-goal mark for the club, having scored 103 times during his five-year stint. Three of those came in a single season against bitter rivals Manchester United, and it doesn’t get much better than that.

Aguero, who is valued at £58.5m by Transfermarkt (an inconceivable number for veterans of the ‘good old days’), netted twice during Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup clash against Southampton to take his tally to 243 goals for the Blues.

In response to the Argentian’s goalscoring escapades, Goater tweeted: “The goal machine has just been switched on.”