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Yaya Toure - commits future to City (page 855)
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The one where he said he would make a statement after the world cup is gone, PLUS the one where he says judge my commitment to city by my displays on the pitch... the other one saying dimitri is right is STILL there.
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The one where he said he would make a statement after the world cup is gone, PLUS the one where he says judge my commitment to city by my displays on the pitch... the other one saying dimitri is right is STILL there.
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Hope City stick to their policy of removing trouble, Bobby, Tevez and Bala, if when investigated he turns out to be another one, get rid and improve the harmony even more next season.
Tevez was to good to replace, not.
Hope City stick to their policy of removing trouble, Bobby, Tevez and Bala, if when investigated he turns out to be another one, get rid and improve the harmony even more next season.
Tevez was to good to replace, not.
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Brilliant
01cravend said:
Brilliant
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Still on his profile when I click on it.
gwt said:
Still on his profile when I click on it.
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Still showing on Twitter on my phone.CITYROBBO said:
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I am very disappointed in Toure if all this crap is true.We and he have just had a great season where we won two trophies and he should have been footballer of the year for his outstanding form.Now we have negative shit about the club once more,all stirred up by a greedy grasping agent [no suprise there then] and a prima donna footballer.
I remember Gary Cook in his interview saying Toure was the only one of the clubs eary top class signings that wasn't in it for the money but believed in the project and in making history.
The clue is probably in his agents statement that he has had an outstanding season and as such everything was on the table,meaning the top European clubs would want him.
As much as he is a key player for us and has been in brilliant form unless he climbs down and clears this bollocks up i hope the club get shut of him pronto and take top dollar when they do!We are a top club now and no player should be above the club ethic.
I am very disappointed in Toure if all this crap is true.We and he have just had a great season where we won two trophies and he should have been footballer of the year for his outstanding form.Now we have negative shit about the club once more,all stirred up by a greedy grasping agent [no suprise there then] and a prima donna footballer.
I remember Gary Cook in his interview saying Toure was the only one of the clubs eary top class signings that wasn't in it for the money but believed in the project and in making history.
The clue is probably in his agents statement that he has had an outstanding season and as such everything was on the table,meaning the top European clubs would want him.
As much as he is a key player for us and has been in brilliant form unless he climbs down and clears this bollocks up i hope the club get shut of him pronto and take top dollar when they do!We are a top club now and no player should be above the club ethic.
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Second this indeed, as long as he's sold off the island. Who can really afford it either? Barca if Cesc is sold?
paulchapo said:
Second this indeed, as long as he's sold off the island. Who can really afford it either? Barca if Cesc is sold?
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Its amazing how fast that the giant fell
Its amazing how fast that the giant fell
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is that a typo?
did you mean Garry Cock?
paulchapo said:
is that a typo?
did you mean Garry Cock?
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all posts now gone except the birthday card one from May 20, but here's the latest breaking stuff (other than Txiki's off to talk with him before the Big Cup):
colin's bell helmet said:
all posts now gone except the birthday card one from May 20, but here's the latest breaking stuff (other than Txiki's off to talk with him before the Big Cup):
david powell @allindave1 10h
News: Yaya Toure is now determined to force a move to Norwich City, after he learnt that Delia Smith makes good cakes pic.twitter.com/j7HbSBxPdA
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So, piecing everything together from this thread and the press, where are we up to with all this?
Looks like City have been on the case behind the scenes, the offending tweets have been deleted and widely reported Txiki will be meeting YaYa either before the World Cup or in Brazil.
Also reported that he is not part of Barcelona's plans and if he was to move only PSG or Monaco could afford him.
Is that it or is there more?
So, piecing everything together from this thread and the press, where are we up to with all this?
Looks like City have been on the case behind the scenes, the offending tweets have been deleted and widely reported Txiki will be meeting YaYa either before the World Cup or in Brazil.
Also reported that he is not part of Barcelona's plans and if he was to move only PSG or Monaco could afford him.
Is that it or is there more?
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I was in Munich when a certain self centred individual player refused to play for City on that evening. The fact was he earned more during his bench outburst than it cost for me and my lad to travel and watch our team. Unforgivable!
This YaYa crap is starting to feel a bit like that. If anyone is doing any disrespecting its either YaYa's agent, or the pair of them.
Take a look at the real world Mr Toure, then realise what a lucky...... YES lucky man you are!
He needs to feel the love ?
My arse..... He needs a clip around the ear and his agent!
Go sit in the local kids cancer hospital for a day or two, then go home and sit in front of a bloody mirror!!
If he wants out get shut of him.
He owes City's owners, staff and supporters a big apology for causing this shit storm, over what ? His own self importance ??
The pair of them look bloody stupid, and very very sad individuals frankly.
I was in Munich when a certain self centred individual player refused to play for City on that evening. The fact was he earned more during his bench outburst than it cost for me and my lad to travel and watch our team. Unforgivable!
This YaYa crap is starting to feel a bit like that. If anyone is doing any disrespecting its either YaYa's agent, or the pair of them.
Take a look at the real world Mr Toure, then realise what a lucky...... YES lucky man you are!
He needs to feel the love ?
My arse..... He needs a clip around the ear and his agent!
Go sit in the local kids cancer hospital for a day or two, then go home and sit in front of a bloody mirror!!
If he wants out get shut of him.
He owes City's owners, staff and supporters a big apology for causing this shit storm, over what ? His own self importance ??
The pair of them look bloody stupid, and very very sad individuals frankly.
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Chairman ?
Kit Man ?
BatBlue said:
Chairman ?
Kit Man ?
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This whole thing just seems very fishy. I would not be surprised if we barely had an idea of what is really going on.
Or...he could just be that petty. Until proven otherwise though, I choose not to believe that.
This whole thing just seems very fishy. I would not be surprised if we barely had an idea of what is really going on.
Or...he could just be that petty. Until proven otherwise though, I choose not to believe that.
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<a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/yaya-toure-actions-threaten-manchester-7153985" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... er-7153985</a>
Stuart Brennan
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Embarrassing and badly timed it may be, but whether Yaya Toure’s Cakegate is a momentary blush or a Caros Tevez-style scandal remains to be seen.
City have remained calm throughout the events of Tuesday, which began in a ridiculous manner, moved through farcical and ended up just bewildering.
At the centre of it all is Toure’s agent Dmitri Seluk, well known for creating lots of sound and fury before getting down to talking.
The usual script is that Seluk conjures up a scenario in which his client is unhappy - last year it was about the imaginary lack of a picture of Yaya on the outside of the Etihad Stadium, and the nonsensical claim that there were no shirts bearing his name in the club.
This time, it was the childish claim that Toure had been disrespected by the club’s failure to shake his hand - or maybe give him a Bugatti sports car - on his birthday.
What normally happens is that the situation ends with a new contract, despite the fact it was not meant to be about money, and that within weeks Toure is rubbishing the extravagant claims of his agent.
This time appears to be different. Everything changed when Toure’s Twitter account initially carried two tweets which made light of the birthday nonsense, and then said we should only listen to words that come directly from the player’s mouth.
Seluk claims those two tweets came from a public relations woman who occasionally tweets on Toure’s behalf.
He says the two following tweets, in which Toure backed his agent and said he would make a statement about his position after the World Cup, came directly from the player.
The truth of that will only come out in time.
Whatever the outcome, Toure is the loser. He either needs to get rid of his agent, or leave, because the whole affair has made him look foolish.
The idea of a footballer on £240,000-a-week throwing a strop because someone forgot to wish him a happy birthday is pathetic.
Seluk’s claim that anyone who failed to get a birthday handshake from their employer would feel the same way goes to show how hopelessly out of touch with reality these people are.
In the space of a 140-character tweet, Yaya has gone from the hero of a brilliant City season to just another spoilt brat footballer.
The timing could not have been worse. As well as coming a week after the Blues were celebrating the high of parading the Premier League trophy around Manchester, it also unhappily coincided with chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s annual address to City fans.
In it he spoke of the owner’s satisfaction with the calmness and dignity that had been restored to the club by Manuel Pellegrini and his crop of players.
“One of the things I am most proud of is that we have wonderful stability across the board, in every aspect of the club,” he said.
The holistic approach I spoke about last year, you have seen it come to fruition. Look how we performed on and off the field, how respectable we have been, how people all over the world have come to enjoy and respect our football.
“Our manager has represented the ownership of the club in a brilliant way and the management of Ferran, Txiki and Brian and every aspect of the club has been consistent and stable.
“Look at how our players, how they acted this year, on and off the field. We are reaching the stability and fluidity of the club we always aspired to. It has been six years in the making but that is how long it takes.”
That was clearly a farewell to the tempestuous reign of Roberto Mancini, when Tevez flounced out on an unauthorised holiday, Mario Balotelli provided too many fireworks off the pitch and the manager fought fire with fire.
Pellegrini’s brief was to make all the headlines on the pitch, and make sure he and his players conducted themselves with the mature professionalism that would reflect well on the club and its owners.
Toure and his agent have dumped on that ethos from a great height. There is still time for Toure to distance himself from his agent - his tweet said everything Seluk said was true.
City have kept their own counsel, other than pointing out that Toure still has three years left on the contract he signed last summer and making it plain he is not for sale.
But they are sure to be considering the possibility that they may have to sell Toure - and will make sure, as they did with Tevez, that it will be on their terms.
Toure has consistently said he would like to end his career at Barcelona, and with new coach Luis Enrique about to take over, and Toure’s stock higher than ever after a fabulous season, now might seem a good time for him to go.
Seluk says money is not the issue, and Toure would take a pay cut to go to the Nou Camp.
But Seluk’s pronouncements are at odds with those of Toure, who - on his birthday last week - gave an interview with a French TV station in which he spoke of challenging for the Champions League with City.
The sting in the tail of that interview came when he declared at the end that his challenge ‘might be at another club’.
That kind of confusion and double-speak is not good enough for a player of Toure’s stature, and City will be seeking clarification in the coming days.
At the age of 31, the Blues need to plan for a future without Toure in any case - that planning might have to come sooner than they had hoped.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/yaya-toure-actions-threaten-manchester-7153985" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... er-7153985</a>
Stuart Brennan
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Embarrassing and badly timed it may be, but whether Yaya Toure’s Cakegate is a momentary blush or a Caros Tevez-style scandal remains to be seen.
City have remained calm throughout the events of Tuesday, which began in a ridiculous manner, moved through farcical and ended up just bewildering.
At the centre of it all is Toure’s agent Dmitri Seluk, well known for creating lots of sound and fury before getting down to talking.
The usual script is that Seluk conjures up a scenario in which his client is unhappy - last year it was about the imaginary lack of a picture of Yaya on the outside of the Etihad Stadium, and the nonsensical claim that there were no shirts bearing his name in the club.
This time, it was the childish claim that Toure had been disrespected by the club’s failure to shake his hand - or maybe give him a Bugatti sports car - on his birthday.
What normally happens is that the situation ends with a new contract, despite the fact it was not meant to be about money, and that within weeks Toure is rubbishing the extravagant claims of his agent.
This time appears to be different. Everything changed when Toure’s Twitter account initially carried two tweets which made light of the birthday nonsense, and then said we should only listen to words that come directly from the player’s mouth.
Seluk claims those two tweets came from a public relations woman who occasionally tweets on Toure’s behalf.
He says the two following tweets, in which Toure backed his agent and said he would make a statement about his position after the World Cup, came directly from the player.
The truth of that will only come out in time.
Whatever the outcome, Toure is the loser. He either needs to get rid of his agent, or leave, because the whole affair has made him look foolish.
The idea of a footballer on £240,000-a-week throwing a strop because someone forgot to wish him a happy birthday is pathetic.
Seluk’s claim that anyone who failed to get a birthday handshake from their employer would feel the same way goes to show how hopelessly out of touch with reality these people are.
In the space of a 140-character tweet, Yaya has gone from the hero of a brilliant City season to just another spoilt brat footballer.
The timing could not have been worse. As well as coming a week after the Blues were celebrating the high of parading the Premier League trophy around Manchester, it also unhappily coincided with chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s annual address to City fans.
In it he spoke of the owner’s satisfaction with the calmness and dignity that had been restored to the club by Manuel Pellegrini and his crop of players.
“One of the things I am most proud of is that we have wonderful stability across the board, in every aspect of the club,” he said.
The holistic approach I spoke about last year, you have seen it come to fruition. Look how we performed on and off the field, how respectable we have been, how people all over the world have come to enjoy and respect our football.
“Our manager has represented the ownership of the club in a brilliant way and the management of Ferran, Txiki and Brian and every aspect of the club has been consistent and stable.
“Look at how our players, how they acted this year, on and off the field. We are reaching the stability and fluidity of the club we always aspired to. It has been six years in the making but that is how long it takes.”
That was clearly a farewell to the tempestuous reign of Roberto Mancini, when Tevez flounced out on an unauthorised holiday, Mario Balotelli provided too many fireworks off the pitch and the manager fought fire with fire.
Pellegrini’s brief was to make all the headlines on the pitch, and make sure he and his players conducted themselves with the mature professionalism that would reflect well on the club and its owners.
Toure and his agent have dumped on that ethos from a great height. There is still time for Toure to distance himself from his agent - his tweet said everything Seluk said was true.
City have kept their own counsel, other than pointing out that Toure still has three years left on the contract he signed last summer and making it plain he is not for sale.
But they are sure to be considering the possibility that they may have to sell Toure - and will make sure, as they did with Tevez, that it will be on their terms.
Toure has consistently said he would like to end his career at Barcelona, and with new coach Luis Enrique about to take over, and Toure’s stock higher than ever after a fabulous season, now might seem a good time for him to go.
Seluk says money is not the issue, and Toure would take a pay cut to go to the Nou Camp.
But Seluk’s pronouncements are at odds with those of Toure, who - on his birthday last week - gave an interview with a French TV station in which he spoke of challenging for the Champions League with City.
The sting in the tail of that interview came when he declared at the end that his challenge ‘might be at another club’.
That kind of confusion and double-speak is not good enough for a player of Toure’s stature, and City will be seeking clarification in the coming days.
At the age of 31, the Blues need to plan for a future without Toure in any case - that planning might have to come sooner than they had hoped.
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^^^^ 100% correct, Mr Brennan.
^^^^ 100% correct, Mr Brennan.
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