Yaya Toure Retires - City Legend and one of the Best ever

[warringtonblue]

He also had the ability to take a game by the scruff of the neck and always... always showed up on the big occasion.

Which a lot of city fans seem to forget

 

[Fame Monster]

I'm not going to get into the greatest player debate but Yaya, Bell, Aguero, D.Silva and KDB are the best players that I've seen at City.

Why no Kompany?

 

[The Preacher]

An absolute one-off. Monster of a player whose huge contributions to the club’s ‘rise’ as a major player in the game can never be minimised.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

Big game player, twat agent.

Absolutely unplayable in his prime.

 

[hinchcliffes bulbous conk]

Some are saying that Lallana's recent tears have nothing to do with current events, but are still lingering from when he sized up Toure and got gripped like the b1tch he is.

 

[bennyboy]

Amazing to think he could be in the underrated section of City players now.

 

[OB1]

Why no Kompany?

This is why I don't want to get into a debate but, self-evidently, he's not one of the five best players I've seen at City; doesn't mean he wouldn't be captaining my best XI of all time

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

I posted this link already elsewhere but should have put it here. Sums things up quite nicely from my point of view:

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...id-silva-adulation-yaya-toure-manchester-city

I think the mention in here of the loss of his brother is important: I've long wondered if this affected Yaya far more deeply than most people realise. People like to call Yaya names and there is no doubting he is a temperamental character but that just makes it more likely in my view that mentally he was very much impacted by his bereavement.

Marvellous article.