Blue Is the Opposite of Blue said:
I've stayed out of this as much as possible because I've still got next to no idea what's going on, but people are far too quick to forget what Yaya has done for us.
He won us the FA Cup with two huge goals at Wembley, he won us the title with two crucial goals away to Newcastle, he scored the greatest goal I've seen live in a stadium to get us back in the League Cup final and his return to the squad this spring rejuvenated our title chase.
All of a sudden, a crazy story leaked by his agent and a few tweets later - the source of which absolutely none of us are aware of - Yaya Toure is public enemy number one. Why? Because the story has been allowed to fester and boil.
This has been a very poorly managed attempt at getting a better contract before he retires and nothing more. He's not threatened to leave, his only mistake was letting his agent grab hold of every microphone within touching distance.
We forgave Tevez despite the fact he abandoned us for 6 months after falling out with Mancini, we can surely forgive Yaya Toure. The first few games back will be difficult and there will be teething problems but we'll all get over it.
Yaya is also very quick to forget what we have done for him.
When we brought him here, he was a Barca bench warmer. The media and pundits alike ridiculed us for spending what we did on him. Some sports presenters didn't even know who he was.
Fast forward a couple of years and they certainly know who he is now, in fact everyone knows.
Last year you couldn't got out on the piss in any town or city in the country without bumping into a gang of piss heads singing the Yaya song, and these weren't even football fans let alone blues.
It's even sang in bars across Europe and seems to have taken a life of it's own as a drinking song for students/piss heads/teenagers or anyone else who just fancies a bounce around to a catchy tune when they're out enjoying themselves. A song born at the Etihad, about a player who many said was overpriced.
We turned him from a defensive mid, who was only known in football circles, into the world class player he is today. A player who is known around the world and not just by football fans. Everyone knows who he is and that is because he plays for Manchester City.
He owes us just as much as we owe him.
