Yaya Toure - commits future to City (page 855)

[MillionDollarDream]

Re: Yaya Toure

I think Yaya is perfectly happy at City. Like all African players, it seems, he is greedy and wants more and more appreciation. He has had a traumatic time with his brother in recent weeks and so I don't blame him for keeping quiet. I doubt football is at the top of his agenda. What I would say is that this season we could cash in on him and find a quality replacement. I think Yaya is good but attitude is the only reason he is not up there with Ronaldo and Messi. The way he can single handedly win a game and create chances/score goals is incredible. But he doesn't do it consistently and that is due to laziness and poor attitude in my opinion. He is a big game player though and so whether he stays or goes I will be happy, depending who we bring in.

The bolded is a damn shame.

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Re: Yaya Toure

Time to put an end to this farce and to list him for sale at £35m, minimum. Let's see who will cough up the money that City should rightfully demand, and let's see which other club will cough up the kind of wage packet that this big lump reckons he is worth.

 

[ForzaMancini]

Re: Yaya Toure

I think Yaya is perfectly happy at City. Like all African players, it seems, he is greedy and wants more and more appreciation. He has had a traumatic time with his brother in recent weeks and so I don't blame him for keeping quiet. I doubt football is at the top of his agenda. What I would say is that this season we could cash in on him and find a quality replacement. I think Yaya is good but attitude is the only reason he is not up there with Ronaldo and Messi. The way he can single handedly win a game and create chances/score goals is incredible. But he doesn't do it consistently and that is due to laziness and poor attitude in my opinion. He is a big game player though and so whether he stays or goes I will be happy, depending who we bring in.

Bit of a sweeping generalisation to say the least.

 

[BillyShears]

Re: Yaya Toure

I think Yaya is perfectly happy at City. Like all African players, it seems, he is greedy and wants more and more appreciation. He has had a traumatic time with his brother in recent weeks and so I don't blame him for keeping quiet. I doubt football is at the top of his agenda. What I would say is that this season we could cash in on him and find a quality replacement. I think Yaya is good but attitude is the only reason he is not up there with Ronaldo and Messi. The way he can single handedly win a game and create chances/score goals is incredible. But he doesn't do it consistently and that is due to laziness and poor attitude in my opinion. He is a big game player though and so whether he stays or goes I will be happy, depending who we bring in.

The bolded is a damn shame.

No the bolded is racist and totally unnecessary.

 

[paulchapo]

Re: Yaya Toure

He and his grasping agent are chancing their arm.They know there is no player out there who can fill his role at the moment and at 31,as good as he is,we wouldn't get top dollar for him.

They know if we want to keep him then paying him extra would be a cheaper alternative than buying a replacement and hoping it comes off.

We need to play hardball,we hold all the aces as his contract has three years to run.Tell PSG it is 35 million,take it or leave it and he is yours.If Luis is worth 50 million to them Ya Ya must be worth at least 35,he has at least three good years in him and can also move further back in his twilight years.

£35m! That's not "hardball" Yaya is a better player than Luis. Although admittedly older!
Yaya is closer to Suarez valued at £75mill than Luis. We seem to get screwed at almost all transfer negotiations.

His age is against him like it or not.Both Luiz and Suarez are 27.Ya Ya will have little or no resellable value to a club that buys him now.I agree though we don't HAVE to sell him as he is under contract and therefore we can say any price and if they want him that badly they will pay.For PSG he could be the player that wins them the champions league so they may consider it a price worth paying.

 

[Monkfish]

Re: Yaya Toure

I think Yaya is perfectly happy at City. Like all African players, it seems, he is greedy and wants more and more appreciation. He has had a traumatic time with his brother in recent weeks and so I don't blame him for keeping quiet. I doubt football is at the top of his agenda. What I would say is that this season we could cash in on him and find a quality replacement. I think Yaya is good but attitude is the only reason he is not up there with Ronaldo and Messi. The way he can single handedly win a game and create chances/score goals is incredible. But he doesn't do it consistently and that is due to laziness and poor attitude in my opinion. He is a big game player though and so whether he stays or goes I will be happy, depending who we bring in.

Bit of a sweeping generalisation to say the least.

Yeah, should have at least gone the extra mile and said 'Like all black players...'
As for the keeping quiet bit, were blaming him for not keeping quiet. That was the problem.

 

[jimharri]

Re: Yaya Toure

Time to get rid of him, but on our terms, not the potential buyer's. The lack of any statement from him committing himself to us (along with the constant speculation) semms to suggest his future lies elsewhere.Thanks for all you've done for us Yaya; don't let the door hit you on the arse on your way out.

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Re: Yaya Toure

Seems so obvious what happened.

Had a good season.
Feeling slightly under appreciated by British media / club
Goes to Qatar after Abu Dhabi
Qatari based PSG reps lay it on thick to try to entice him - it appeals to him - French speaking / possible pay rise / easier league
Tell him/his agent that he'll need to agitate for a move
Out comes the crap about the birthday cake


Sell him if he wants to go but I think he'll probably end up staying.

I do either think it's this^ or it's that he's seen what Messi and CRonaldo have done recently with Barcelona and Madrid and wanted to emulate that. They both moaned about the size of the new contract offered, moaned about being undervalued and feeling depressed on the back of that, threatened or made the club think that they might leave so that forced their respective clubs to offer more money in an even larger contract.

I personally don't think it's even got as far as another club offering him something and him chancing it with City...i think he thinks he's good enough and powerful enough to completely disregard all the hard work Pellegrini, Begiristain and Soriano have put in with regards to the whole "holistic" drive within the club and just spout off like a fucking big mard arsed prima donna that he's not happy, he feels underappreciated and he wants to leave; just to get City to shit themselves and offer him a huge new deal.

Well i'm afraid that at 30 years old his best years are not ahead of him and i think the club should be stern with him. Then if he wants out - sell him!

 

[Deleted member 58678]

Re: Yaya Toure

I think Yaya is perfectly happy at City. Like all African players, it seems, he is greedy and wants more and more appreciation. He has had a traumatic time with his brother in recent weeks and so I don't blame him for keeping quiet. I doubt football is at the top of his agenda. What I would say is that this season we could cash in on him and find a quality replacement. I think Yaya is good but attitude is the only reason he is not up there with Ronaldo and Messi. The way he can single handedly win a game and create chances/score goals is incredible. But he doesn't do it consistently and that is due to laziness and poor attitude in my opinion. He is a big game player though and so whether he stays or goes I will be happy, depending who we bring in.

The bolded is a damn shame.

No the bolded is racist and totally unnecessary.

It's not racist at all!

For a starter, "African" isn't a race. Africa isn't a racial group, it is a continent full of hundreds of different races of people of all colours, probably the most diverse continent there is. Therefore to be African doesn't make you one race.

And although it is a sweeping generalisation, look at recent history of Essou-Ekoto (said he didn't really like playing football, just liked getting paid), Eto'o (going off to that joke of a team in South Russia, just for a pay day), Gyan (fucking Sunderland and the Prem off to go and get a pay day in Saudi Arabia or whtever joke of a league he's playing in and getting paid as much as top Prem players), the whole Nigeria squad (refusing to train unless they were paid appearance money), Cameroon team (wouldn't board a plane to Morocco for a game because they hadn't been paid bonus money)....these things are just off the top of my head.

Now these things do not make all African players the same, but there has been a large number of examples like this...but there have also been a large number of examples of individuals from all over the world doing things like this, not just Africans.

But still, "African" is not a race.

 

[thetain01]

Re: Yaya Toure

What happened to the good old days when people just said 'I want to leave' and none of this hyped up agent poking nonsense! If he wants to go, let him go, he servid his time and done us proud.

A Barcalona outcast, turned Manchester City machine.