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Yaya Toure signs new five year contract (merged)
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Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Feel free to trash The Sun but these are quotes from his real agent.
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Feel free to trash The Sun but these are quotes from his real agent.
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Article 1:
YAYA TOURE has stunned Manchester City by demanding: Give me a new contract by Saturday — or I am off.
The Ivorian midfielder is fuming that talks over a new deal have stalled for SIX months.
And Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, last night admitted: “If he signs a contract in the next three or four days, OK. If not, we will not wait any longer and will start negotiations with different clubs.
“Today is Tuesday, so it means by Saturday. We will say ‘Thank you. OK, Yaya will leave in May.’
“I do not feel he will stay at City. This is not about money. He wants to leave because of many reasons.
“He is one of the best players at Manchester City but does not feel the respect of the staff. Only Roberto Mancini respects Yaya.”
The former Barcelona ace, 29, is City’s top earner on £220,000 a week.
But Seluk insists he has not asked for a pay rise and the dispute centres around the club’s delaying tactics.
And Toure, away on international duty for a World Cup qualifier against Gambia in Abidjan on Saturday, is ready to use FIFA rules in his cause.
They state if a player has not signed a new deal by the end of the third year of his contract he can buy out the rest and leave.
Seluk added: “It’s all strange. It’s not normal to have negotiations for six months about a contract.
“They have been talking about small details all this time.”
City’s technical director Txiki Begiristain allowed Toure to leave Barcelona for City when he was the Catalan giants’ sporting director.
And Seluk claimed even owner Sheikh Mansour’s personal intervention may not be enough.
He added: “Maybe if the owner speaks to Yaya, maybe he doesn’t know the details.”
The bombshell news will hit Mancini and spark a frenzy among Europe’s biggest clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
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YAYA TOURE’S decision to quit Manchester City has nothing to do with money. It is about principle.
City’s talismanic midfielder feels unloved, unappreciated and disrespected at the Etihad.
The Ivorian star’s call is the last thing boss Roberto Mancini wanted to hear after a season of under-achievement.
Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, told SunSport the reasons why the former Barcelona star, 29, has all but decided to quit the club.
Seluk said: “We have been discussing a new contract since September until now.
“In one month’s time he will be free to leave and these people have continued negotiating and negotiating. It’s not normal. Yaya feels it is disrespectful.
“It’s a pity. City pay big money, but do not understand that human relations mean more than anything. Yaya feels the club do not want him.”
Seluk is not just Toure’s agent. Yaya calls him ‘dad’ to indicate how close they are. They speak in Russian, Seluk’s native tongue which Yaya speaks fluently.
Losing Toure would be catastrophic for what he represents.
When SunSport broke news of City’s first £25million bid to lure the player from the Nou Camp in January 2009 many scoffed.
Kaka, then at Milan, had just turned City down and joined Real Madrid a few months later for just over half the £109m City had offered.
The world’s top stars appeared reluctant to join City for all the money Sheikh Mansour was brandishing in front of them.
So the idea Barca’s midfield monster would join them appeared absurd. The Catalan giants held firm and offered Toure a new deal.
Yet 17 months later, during the 2010 World Cup, SunSport revealed again Toure would sign for City for £25m.
He was the first really big name to join City’s revolution. Then David Silva soon followed from Valencia.
Toure insisted he came to make history and has he done that. He has become the linchpin of City’s success.
In his first season, City broke into the top four and won the FA Cup final — courtesy of his winner against Stoke and a semi-final winner against bitter rivals Manchester United. In his second season they won their first title in four decades.
Now Mancini is on the verge of losing a player who has never courted the wrong headlines and proved a shining example on and off the pitch.
Toure is upset because Silva, who joined after him, signed a new deal six months ago — which he claims shows the club does not respect him.
He also had to pay for regular connecting flights to go pick up the African Player of the Year award and nobody from the club even bothered to travel with him.
Toure is also surprised he is not featured in any of the giant posters of players celebrating recent triumphs that adorn walls at the training ground and club offices.
Each of those reasons may look petty. But added to the contract wrangle and it becomes an issue of principle. Toure may not shout it from the rooftops but he knows his value to the team — a point he believes the club do not recognise.
Seluk has claimed City may want to get his £11m annual salary off their wage bill.
The agent added: “Yaya is extremely well paid at City and is the first to recognise that. But he is the No 1 in the world in his position and can get the same money elsewhere. He has been ready to sign for six months on the same money.
“He is the best box-to-box midfielder in the world. He can also play centre-half, even play centre- forward. Feran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain sent an offer, but Yaya can leave in two months and still it is not finalised.
“I ask myself, Txiki was at Barcelona when Yaya left, so maybe now they are at City and Yaya will leave again.
“We want to leave the club, because if they really wanted to do good by Yaya they’d have completed the contract a few months ago.
“They are still discussing small details, not the salary. For a player like Yaya and a club like City it’s bad to see this. A pat on the back is more important than anything, you know.
“Around the stadium while there are pictures of every player of City commemorating their recent successes there is not a single one of Yaya. At the club shop you can find shirts to buy with the names of every player, but not Yaya’s.
“Barcelona and Real Madrid arrange private flights when players go to pick up awards. Their club presidents attended the FIFA Ballon D’Or in Zurich to be with their players.
“When Yaya went to pick up the award for Africa Player of the Year he took regular flights and paid for them. Nobody from the club went with him.
“City are a big club but did not arrange anything for Yaya. They never offered to pay for his flights and, of course, Yaya would never ask for that.
“It’s ridiculous, just for a few hundred pounds. But it shows their mentality because this award was big for the international prestige of City, too.
“I live in Barcelona and a lot of people still say that letting him leave was the biggest mistake they made in recent years.
“Roberto Mancini has been brilliant and very supportive. He appreciates what Yaya means to the club. But not the staff.
“It started with Brian Marwood and now it continues with the same people that were at Barcelona when Yaya was forced to leave.
“Txiki is a new technical director and maybe he wants to bring in other players to replace Yaya.
“If the contract was to be finished, done and signed in three days then maybe Yaya would be convinced to stay.
“But I don’t think so. They will not do it and Yaya will not change his mind.”
cleavers
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Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Migraine my arse :)LoveCity said:Feel free to trash The Sun but these are quotes from his real agent.
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Article 1:
YAYA TOURE has stunned Manchester City by demanding: Give me a new contract by Saturday — or I am off.
The Ivorian midfielder is fuming that talks over a new deal have stalled for SIX months.
And Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, last night admitted: “If he signs a contract in the next three or four days, OK. If not, we will not wait any longer and will start negotiations with different clubs.
“Today is Tuesday, so it means by Saturday. We will say ‘Thank you. OK, Yaya will leave in May.’
“I do not feel he will stay at City. This is not about money. He wants to leave because of many reasons.
“He is one of the best players at Manchester City but does not feel the respect of the staff. Only Roberto Mancini respects Yaya.”
The former Barcelona ace, 29, is City’s top earner on £220,000 a week.
But Seluk insists he has not asked for a pay rise and the dispute centres around the club’s delaying tactics.
And Toure, away on international duty for a World Cup qualifier against Gambia in Abidjan on Saturday, is ready to use FIFA rules in his cause.
They state if a player has not signed a new deal by the end of the third year of his contract he can buy out the rest and leave.
Seluk added: “It’s all strange. It’s not normal to have negotiations for six months about a contract.
“They have been talking about small details all this time.”
City’s technical director Txiki Begiristain allowed Toure to leave Barcelona for City when he was the Catalan giants’ sporting director.
And Seluk claimed even owner Sheikh Mansour’s personal intervention may not be enough.
He added: “Maybe if the owner speaks to Yaya, maybe he doesn’t know the details.”
The bombshell news will hit Mancini and spark a frenzy among Europe’s biggest clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
Article 2:
YAYA TOURE’S decision to quit Manchester City has nothing to do with money. It is about principle.
City’s talismanic midfielder feels unloved, unappreciated and disrespected at the Etihad.
The Ivorian star’s call is the last thing boss Roberto Mancini wanted to hear after a season of under-achievement.
Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, told SunSport the reasons why the former Barcelona star, 29, has all but decided to quit the club.
Seluk said: “We have been discussing a new contract since September until now.
“In one month’s time he will be free to leave and these people have continued negotiating and negotiating. It’s not normal. Yaya feels it is disrespectful.
“It’s a pity. City pay big money, but do not understand that human relations mean more than anything. Yaya feels the club do not want him.”
Seluk is not just Toure’s agent. Yaya calls him ‘dad’ to indicate how close they are. They speak in Russian, Seluk’s native tongue which Yaya speaks fluently.
Losing Toure would be catastrophic for what he represents.
When SunSport broke news of City’s first £25million bid to lure the player from the Nou Camp in January 2009 many scoffed.
Kaka, then at Milan, had just turned City down and joined Real Madrid a few months later for just over half the £109m City had offered.
The world’s top stars appeared reluctant to join City for all the money Sheikh Mansour was brandishing in front of them.
So the idea Barca’s midfield monster would join them appeared absurd. The Catalan giants held firm and offered Toure a new deal.
Yet 17 months later, during the 2010 World Cup, SunSport revealed again Toure would sign for City for £25m.
He was the first really big name to join City’s revolution. Then David Silva soon followed from Valencia.
Toure insisted he came to make history and has he done that. He has become the linchpin of City’s success.
In his first season, City broke into the top four and won the FA Cup final — courtesy of his winner against Stoke and a semi-final winner against bitter rivals Manchester United. In his second season they won their first title in four decades.
Now Mancini is on the verge of losing a player who has never courted the wrong headlines and proved a shining example on and off the pitch.
Toure is upset because Silva, who joined after him, signed a new deal six months ago — which he claims shows the club does not respect him.
He also had to pay for regular connecting flights to go pick up the African Player of the Year award and nobody from the club even bothered to travel with him.
Toure is also surprised he is not featured in any of the giant posters of players celebrating recent triumphs that adorn walls at the training ground and club offices.
Each of those reasons may look petty. But added to the contract wrangle and it becomes an issue of principle. Toure may not shout it from the rooftops but he knows his value to the team — a point he believes the club do not recognise.
Seluk has claimed City may want to get his £11m annual salary off their wage bill.
The agent added: “Yaya is extremely well paid at City and is the first to recognise that. But he is the No 1 in the world in his position and can get the same money elsewhere. He has been ready to sign for six months on the same money.
“He is the best box-to-box midfielder in the world. He can also play centre-half, even play centre- forward. Feran Soriano and Txiki Begiristain sent an offer, but Yaya can leave in two months and still it is not finalised.
“I ask myself, Txiki was at Barcelona when Yaya left, so maybe now they are at City and Yaya will leave again.
“We want to leave the club, because if they really wanted to do good by Yaya they’d have completed the contract a few months ago.
“They are still discussing small details, not the salary. For a player like Yaya and a club like City it’s bad to see this. A pat on the back is more important than anything, you know.
“Around the stadium while there are pictures of every player of City commemorating their recent successes there is not a single one of Yaya. At the club shop you can find shirts to buy with the names of every player, but not Yaya’s.
“Barcelona and Real Madrid arrange private flights when players go to pick up awards. Their club presidents attended the FIFA Ballon D’Or in Zurich to be with their players.
“When Yaya went to pick up the award for Africa Player of the Year he took regular flights and paid for them. Nobody from the club went with him.
“City are a big club but did not arrange anything for Yaya. They never offered to pay for his flights and, of course, Yaya would never ask for that.
“It’s ridiculous, just for a few hundred pounds. But it shows their mentality because this award was big for the international prestige of City, too.
“I live in Barcelona and a lot of people still say that letting him leave was the biggest mistake they made in recent years.
“Roberto Mancini has been brilliant and very supportive. He appreciates what Yaya means to the club. But not the staff.
“It started with Brian Marwood and now it continues with the same people that were at Barcelona when Yaya was forced to leave.
“Txiki is a new technical director and maybe he wants to bring in other players to replace Yaya.
“If the contract was to be finished, done and signed in three days then maybe Yaya would be convinced to stay.
“But I don’t think so. They will not do it and Yaya will not change his mind.”
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
And again this is his real agent and these are his quotes so can we discuss the subject rather than generic newspaper bashing?
Rascal said:The Sun needs destroying and if anyone buys it they are twats
And again this is his real agent and these are his quotes so can we discuss the subject rather than generic newspaper bashing?
kaz7
Well-Known Member
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
WHAT! where the hell did this come from?
WHAT! where the hell did this come from?
cleavers
Moderator
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Can't argue there, don't know why any blue buys, or reads online, any newspapers these days.Rascal said:The Sun needs destroying and if anyone buys it they are twats
Hamann Pineapple
Well-Known Member
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Tara Yaya
Tara Yaya
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Same paper that published the interview where he said "Of course I'd like to end my career here. For three years it has been enjoyable to be with guys who love you, guys who care about you."
Don't know why his agent would come out with this shit though.
Same paper that published the interview where he said "Of course I'd like to end my career here. For three years it has been enjoyable to be with guys who love you, guys who care about you."
Don't know why his agent would come out with this shit though.
Rascal
El Presidente
Re: Yaya's agent says he is ready to quit...
Dont be so fucking naive
Its the Sun, they tell lies
LoveCity said:Rascal said:The Sun needs destroying and if anyone buys it they are twats
And again this is his real agent and these are his quotes so can we discuss the subject rather than generic newspaper bashing?
Dont be so fucking naive
Its the Sun, they tell lies