Re: Yaya Toure
Daily Star *Exclusive*
Daily Star *Exclusive*
EXCLUSIVE: Want-away Manchester City star Yaya Toure has turned down a move to Man Utd!
MANCHESTER CITY star Yaya Toure has snubbed a shock move to bitter-rivals Manchester United.
By Jeremy Cross/Published 17th July 2014
NO THANKS: Yaya Toure has turned down a move to Manchester United
Toure has fallen out with the Premier League champions and wants to leave the Etihad Stadium this summer.
United saw a chance to lure the Ivory Coast international across town to Old Trafford in what would have been a sensational transfer coup.
United bosses let it be known Toure was on their shopping list and were hopeful of pulling-off a £40m deal.
But Toure has told the fallen giants he has no interest in joining his neighbours at United because he is holding out for a move to Paris Saint-Germain instead.
The snub is a blow to new United boss Louis Van Gaal, who is keen to strengthen his flagging midfield.
But Starsport understands Toure, 31, wants to leave the Premier League altogether and is hoping PSG make an official approach.
Toure has spent most of the summer criticising City and their recent treatment of him.
“Toure has told the fallen giants he has no interest in joining his neighbours at United because he is holding out for a move to Paris Saint-Germain instead”
He threw his future into doubt at the end of last season when his agent Dimitri Seluk claimed the club didn't acknowledge his birthday in the correct way.
The bizarre outburst stunned club bosses when Seluk insisted Toure had been ignored by the Abu Dhabi owners when the squad visited them after landing the title.
Toure then slammed the club's lack of support in the wake of the tragic death of his brother Ibrahim from cancer last month at the age of just 28.
He claimed that bosses didn't let him leave a post-season training camp to spend time with his brother before he died.
City insist Toure didn't ask for compassionate leave and would have been granted some if he had done.
But the stand-off shows no signs of coming to an end and it is understood Pellegrini will hold face-to-face showdown talks with Toure at the start of the club's pre-season tour of America in the hope of persuading him to stay.