Yaya Toure - commits future to City (page 855)

[Bluebee2]

Re: Yaya Toure

I just wonder if with the rumour of Mascherano leaving Barcelona he may be thinking of moving to a CB position sooner rather than later. It is all very strange indeed, City need to move on this soon and sort it out.

 

[kaz7]

Re: Yaya Toure

However this ends i am not forgetting that he has spoilt my mood of elation and celebration after a great season
The fact he is doing this days after we won the title will always piss me off whether he stays or goes,he has shown all of us very little respect and if he thinks he has problems in life he should spend a day in my shoes,twat

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Yaya Toure

I noticed yours, actually, as I assumed you were the same person. It was civil but far from pleasant ("@dosss45: @MCFC @FTBpro Not feeling like voting for Yaya at the moment lads, sorry."), given what it likely would have been without this farce. You summed up my feelings, though. Other replies are mean-spirited and/or abusive, which does have a tendency of happening on Twitter for nearly everything, but these are a bit different.

I also took @toure_yaya42 out of it, I don't mind the bitching but sending the tweets to him is a bit...

I agree, I try to maintain a code of class on Twitter regardless of how low that standards of discussion fall.

Yep, there's a chance he'll read it and even if his agents acting the clown he's been a great player, we should wish him well regardless, I'm not of the Dipper burning jerseys or the rag threatening families vein of thinking.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Re: Yaya Toure

I'm all for people trying to earn more money if they think they've earned it! But there's a way of going about it not getting your agent to spout a load of bullshit about respect and love someone posted that silva and aguero have signed new contracts and milner dzeko kolarov and nasri are about to sign new contracts do you feel he feels he's being left out? Either way he's gone about it in the wrong way UNLESS he's asked for an improved contract and he's been told to do one!

 

[NipHolmes]

Re: Yaya Toure

Can see him at Madrid along with Suarez.

Sell Khedira and Benzema to make way.

Yaya is a treacherous wanker imo. Love the guy, always have, but this episode has killed that affection. He's the best CM in world football at the moment and is paid handsomely for that already, to bend City over for more cash and use such an insignificant excuse is derogatory towards the club.

Get rid, put a bid in for Vidal and Fabregas. Get one of them and move forward.

FWIW, I believe Fernandinho can play his role and Fernando can do shore us up. Fernandinho has a higher tempo, bigger stamina tank and works harder whilst also having the quality we need.

All is not lost, I just think City should move on and let him be now. He's won an FA Cup, Carling Cup and Two titles here, he's been paid among the best salary in the world meanwhile and had a team built around him, has fans screaming and singing his name, he has his own chant which even gets sang by dart fans ffs. If that's not valuing him, I don't know what is. What isn't valued, is respect for his employers and the game of football itself.

He can return to Spain and play for Barca if he wants, will be interesting when he gets called a monkey , inevitably, by the throwbacks in the stands. For somebody who rightly detests racism, I'd have thought Spain would be lower on the list of moves.

Personally, I see him at PSG.

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Re: Yaya Toure

I'd be so bitterly disappointed in Khaldoon, Soriano and Txiki if that happened.

However IMO the one thing that is most certainly assured is that our highest paid player is not going to get a new contract at 31 having signed one 12 months ago, no matter how good a season he's just had. If he thinks he's Messi or Ronaldo he's deluding himself and has that kind of power he's deluding himself.

He cannot come back now unless he sacks his Manager and eats a large piece of humble pie.

Sounds like he is a lot closer to Seluk than people are stating.

Yaya's son is named after him.

Kia was the same with Tevez, best man at his wedding.

These guys know how to play the long game.

As I said yesterday it only ends one of two ways- new agent or new team. The fact he has had Seluk as an agent/manger for 13 years and named his son after means he's more likely to be off. It just might be a long goodbye.

While the old saying is no one is irreplaceable as United and Spurs have found it isn't strictly true and the loss of Yaya's goals, passing, runs, sheer physical presence, free kicks is incalculable. He is a serious big game player and has scored vital goals at most of our recent key moments. If he leaves the way the team plays will have to change. While you could argue there are better midfielders than Yaya they are different to him in that what he gives us is pretty unique at top level football.

In short I think he has us by the short and curlies.

 

[RandomJ]

Re: Yaya Toure

I can't believe so many people are taking it at face value and thinking Yaya is genuinely spitting his dummy out because we didn't get him a birthday cake. There it's absolutely no truth in that, it's so absurd that it's just not worth discussing.

Clearly this is his agent chatting shit to try and re-negotiate his contract / angle for a move. He does it every season, and did it regularly at Barca.

If he came out in the press directly and said he wanted more money / wanted to leave, he'd probably be in breach of contract and we could fine him / withhold his bonus.

So he's causing a stink about a "lack of respect" because it forces City's hand to respond / flushes out other interested clubs. It's not a new tactic, Ronaldo claims he wants to "feel the love" every time he wants a new contract. Rooney chats shit about a lack of ambition. Tevez's agent talked of broken promises etc.

It's a horrible way to do business, but it's the reality of the modern game, unfortunately.

Yaya has come from absolutely nothing in Ivory Coast to being one of the highest paid sportsmen in the world, earning an unimaginable amount of money. The man that has helped that happen is Demitri Seluk. He might well be an idiot, but Yaya is understandably close to him and trusts him to handle his affairs.

I'm sure we've all got friends / family members who behave like dickheads from time to time, but we stick by them because we have close human relationships.

Yaya has been foolish for allowing this farce to happen, but I think he's very much the passenger as opposed to the driver.

I personally believe Yaya sent the first two tweets yesterday. Then I think he had a phone call from Seluk saying "what the fuck are you doing, you're messing up my plan to get you a contract as big as Messi's".

Yaya then authorised Seluk to handle his twitter / media output and went back to preparing for the World Cup with Ivory Coast.

The truth might be that Seluk is doing everything he can to squeeze every last penny out of City. He's going about it in a dreadfully distasteful way, but essentially he's employed to get the most money he possibly can for his client, so that explains his motivation.

It might be that Yaya wants a new challenge / change of scene. I'd be gutted if that's true, but many players reach that stage in their life where they want a change of surroundings. If that's how he genuinely feels, while I'm personally disappointed, he'd go with my best wishes as he's been one of the best players ever to play for our club, and helped to bring unparalleled success in terms of league titles.

What is not true, and I refuse to believe, is that Yaya is arsed about his birthday cake / a lack of love or respect. It's absolutely nonesense, and I can't believe it is even getting talked about.

Well if that is the case its about time Yaya grew a pair of bollocks and came out and asked for a move,instead of leaving it to someone to do his dirty work.Had he done that,then I for one would have respected his wishes,far more than I do now.
The old saying "theres no smoke ..." is certainly ringing true so far.

Great post from Shaleums tash, but I think you are missing the point. Yaya in all likelihood is happy to stay this is just posturing from his agent to get him an improved contract - to do that you have to offer the threat that you would leave.

It's all negotiation.

I feared this situation with players like Sergio and YaYa once granny shagger Rooney got 300k a week. Its all ego and if Rooney can command that then obviously other players look at it and want that amount.

Well if he wants 300k a week he can bugger off to a club willing to pay him that. He is our highest earner and has 3 years left on his deal. If we bow down to his demands then whats to stop Sergio, Silva, Nasri getting their agents to do the same thing so they can have 300k as well. We need to call his agents bluff and if he does end up leaving he might have the 300k a week he wanted but he will be in a rubbish league in Russia or France or wherever and not the most competitive and most watched league in the world.

 

[cibaman]

Re: Yaya Toure

How would people feel if it was announced in the next couple of weeks that he has signed a new improved contract? Pleased that we've kept him or disappointed that the club have ceded to Seluk/Yaya's ridiculous strategy? At this point if he stays due to a back down or the club refusing to budge, I wouldn't mind so much but if he gets what he wants by behaving this way, I'd be pretty pissed off.

I'd be so bitterly disappointed in Khaldoon, Soriano and Txiki if that happened.

However IMO the one thing that is most certainly assured is that our highest paid player is not going to get a new contract at 31 having signed one 12 months ago, no matter how good a season he's just had. If he thinks he's Messi or Ronaldo he's deluding himself and has that kind of power he's deluding himself.

He cannot come back now unless he sacks his Manager and eats a large piece of humble pie.

United fans accepted Rooney back

Liverpool fans more than accepted Suarez back

City fans accepted Tevez back

He knows that all of the flak he's getting from City fans at the moment will be forgotten after his next goal

 

[dazdon]

Re: Yaya Toure

However this ends i am not forgetting that he has spoilt my mood of elation and celebration after a great season
The fact he is doing this days after we won the title will always piss me off whether he stays or goes,he has shown all of us very little respect and if he thinks he has problems in life he should spend a day in my shoes,twat

Exactly Karen.

I can't look at him in a City shirt again and not think what a Twat he is.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Re: Yaya Toure

I'm in the 'his agent goes or he goes' camp.

I'm in the 'the agent is only doing what Yaya want's him to do' camp

Maybe so, but the agent is the one who's burnt his bridges by insulting HH, not Yaya. Lets put it differently, there's still a way for Yaya to back down, apologise and stay to see out at least another year of his contract. But that way doesn't feature Dimitri Seluk.

The problem is that if Yaya backs down, he's pretty much going to have to say his agent was being a **** and not acting on his orders. But if he says that and doesn't sack Seluk then it looks utterly disingenuous.