Been a tremendous signing for us but we're ready to move on now. Could still do a bit of a job, but the way we insist on using him unbalances the team so im happy to say goodbye.
Not sure what those hoping for a decent fee are expecting though. Getting an increasingly ineffective player on sky high wages off our books a season early is probably decent enough. How much do people think a 33 year old Yaya Toure next season is actually worth to us? Even these Chinese clubs won't pay loads as the price is partly dictated by how much the selling clubs wants to hold onto a player. Any big lumps sums that come into the reckoning will be most likely Yaya's signing on fee. That said, we've had more than our money's worth out of him. £24m fee and 6 seasons out of him? Great business irrespective of whether we get a fee for him or not.