Aguero, 23, scored a hat-trick in the 3-0 defeat of Wigan Athletic on Saturday to take his tally to six goals in four games, having joined City from Atletico Madrid in July for an estimated 45 million euros.
“I said Aguero needed a team that would support him, so that Aguero can play in the Champions League, can play in very important championships,” Maradona told a news conference in Dubai on Sunday ahead of his first competitive game in charge of the city’s Al Wasl FC.
“It was not the case with Atletico Madrid. People from Atletico Madrid said I was a fool. I told them that foolish person wasn’t me, because Aguero is now playing for a team – Manchester City – that will fight for everything. Now Aguero is playing in a place that he deserves.”
City have won all four league games this season and are second only to local rivals Manchester United on goal difference.
Maradona, who managed his nation at last year’s World Cup, also found time to slam the Argentina Football Association.
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