Yaya toure leaving?!!!!??!!

[Bianchi on Ice]

If he truly is pissed off, it must be because the owner didn't say happy bday. how the fuck is the owner or chairmen to even know when yayas birthday is, unless he tells people.

yaya: hey mr money bags owners, it is my bday.

shreik: happy birthday yaya.

Sheik: I baked a cake for you

Yaya: has it got almonds in it?

Sheik: Im not sure

Yaya: AHAA!!! so you DIDNT make it?

Sheik: no, but Ive made you a very rich man who is under contract so shut the fuck up and play football

[jimtolmie_tache]

Erm..SHREK had the Munchenhaiusens eating out of his hand with his tantrums and demands, not once but twice.

Remember Bacon told everyone he wanted to leave and handed in transfer request. If he hadn't retired Shrek would have gone. Just like Robson, Leighton, Bruce, Ince, Beckham, Stam, van Nistelrooy and anyone else who dared to cross him

Brian Kidd.

[Ted Hughes]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about.

For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'.

So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like.

It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ?

For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had.

Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them.

If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

[AG7]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about. For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'. So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like. It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ? For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had. Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them. If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

Finally, a voice of reason ...

[Dameerto]

He's not on the Tevez level of cnutishness since he hasn't refused to play (yet) but I've lost all respect for him. He's another player who thinks he can trade on his fan popularity while disrespecting the club and agitating for a move. I have some news for him, the fans ARE the club.

[Original Dub]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about.

For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'.

So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like.

It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ?

For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had.

Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them.

If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

Sorry mate I'm not buying it.

With tevez, I said there was two sides to that story.... but yaya's manager, or "dad" as he likes to call him, mouthing off to every news outlet there is. Then yaya's twitter account is "hacked", then yaya says nothing to call the whole thing off?

It's too much. Either he is a fucking moron or he is a disrespectful cunt.

I really can't see how this can be explained away.

[Saul Goodman]

Wether there's any shred of truth in this is irrelevant but this episode is sullying his reputation,

You can catch a thief, but you can't catch a liar. Or words to that effect.

There is a reason why such maxims have stood the test of time. Such sayings have remained true in life because human nature continues to lend itself to tricky behaviour.

It is why multi-millionaire popular singers such as Take That fraternise with tax avoidance schemes rather than pay what they can afford towards the public purse. Despite having plenty, it is why some members of the super-rich can't get enough for themselves.

When large sums of cash are wafting under their nostrils, the descent of man seems to know no bounds. Football at the elite level is a sewer.

When one studies the curious case of Yaya Toure and his ill-advised decision to suddenly show off his sensibilities after Manchester City apparently insulted him by presenting him with a birthday cake to mark his 31st birthday, we suddenly realise why it is impossible to catch a liar.

Deceit, dishonesty and deception. All three traits can be discovered in the bizarre behaviour of Toure, and an agent whose only slice of the cake he is interested in is the 10 percent his client will pocket from a fresh contract.

Above all, Toure's dismal conduct reeks of ignorance. It is disappointing when some onlookers were under the misguided impression that the Ivory Coast international Toure was better than such base motives.

We should have known better - because he is a Premier League footballer.

His crude conduct exudes a lack of common decency towards Manchester City's supporters, many of who fork out money they can barely afford for season tickets to watch these millionaires play.

The gap between football players in the Premier League, and the people who watch them has grown to such a depressing level that the working-class sport no longer has any class.

Al Pacino’s character in the film Scent of Woman probably had his take on the rat race of life right. And that was 22 years ago.

"Conscience is dead...it's f**k your buddy, cheat on your wife, call your mother on Mother's Day...it's all sh*t."

Football is a symptom of a wider malaise. A sport full of new money, questionable owners, players and agents on the make and figures who are not worth the paper they sign their bulging contracts on.

Loyalty is a dead concept. In football, there are no heroes any more. Certainly none that can be trusted with any degree of certainty.

Wayne Rooney seemed to hijack the death throes of David Moyes’ tenure as Manchester United manager to organise himself a £300,000-a-week contract.

There has been a form of financial vandalism afflicting the game that will never be reversed. Playing for the jersey has long since gone. The colour of money is much more important than the colour of a shirt.

The quotes from Toure's agent - a Mr Ten Percent called Dimitry Seluk - are ludicrous and comical, whether said without or without a straight face.

"He got a cake, but when it was Roberto Carlos's birthday, the president of Anzhi gave him a Bugatti," said Seluk.

"I don't expect City to present Yaya with a Bugatti, we only asked that they shook his hand and said 'we congratulate you'.

"It is the minimum they must do when it is his birthday and the squad is all together.

"Of course Yaya is upset about this. If this happened to you..and nobody shakes your hand, you will say bye-bye and go to work for somebody else. It is normal."

It is not normal. Nobody requires their employer to wish them anything.

All you want are decent working hours, decent holidays, being paid on time and enough money to support a lifestyle. All of which Toure has and much, much more.

This is a man earning an estimated £300,000 each week. His attitude is sickening as he tries to "work his ticket". Apparently, hankering after a move back to Barcelona.

“Everything Dimitry said is true. He speaks for me. I will give an interview after World Cup to explain," Toure is quoted as saying after initially distancing himself from the comments.

"Yes, I have talked before about ending my career at Barcelona — but we don’t know because football is moving fast and you never know about tomorrow."

City fans should start singing "he just can’t get enough" the next time they come across this 6’ 5” man child. But some won't. Because he scored 24 goals last season.

That makes such unacceptable behaviour excusable in football, unfortunately.

Toure has intimated he feels under-appreciated and disrespected by the English champions. Which is complete tosh.

What was wrong with him having a quiet word in the ear of the coach Manuel Pellegrini to say he would like a move back to Spain after four years in England rather than concocting a shambolic and weird story to try to make his club look bad?

Bring back the days of Paul Dickov and Shaun Goater. At least there was a veil of honesty and likeability enveloping City when they were languishing in the old Second Division.

City are in a position of strength regarding this farce. They are perhaps the only club in the world that does not need to sell. They do not need to retrieve the £24m they paid Barca to sign Toure in 2010. Neither do they have to offer any more money to men on the make. Or a Bugatti to a man who needs a sports car like a hole in the head.

Toure has taken bad advice from his agent. His public persona has suffered irretrievable damage from this episode, but he will not care if his club offers him an extra £50,000 a week to make him feel better between birthdays.

Those sums would not be a problem for the club's Abu Dhabi owners to come up with. Nor would plucking a Bugatti straight out of the wrapper from the Gulf. But this comes down to more than money. It comes down to what is morally right or wrong. And what is fiscally right amid Financial Fair Play fines.

Rather than get rid of Toure, City should let him sit in the reserves and do his penance if he is unwilling to play ball.

Deceit, deception and dishonesty. The hallmarks of professional football at the highest level.

They are also the new trademarks of Yaya Toure, every bit as protruding as his rampaging runs from deep.

You can spot a thief. We are reminded that you will never corner a liar.

[Ted Hughes]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about.

For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'.

So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like.

It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ?

For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had.

Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them.

If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

Sorry mate I'm not buying it.

With tevez, I said there was two sides to that story.... but yaya's manager, or "dad" as he likes to call him, mouthing off to every news outlet there is. Then yaya's twitter account is "hacked", then yaya says nothing to call the whole thing off?

It's too much. Either he is a fucking moron or he is a disrespectful cunt.

I really can't see how this can be explained away.

Or he's not a reader of internet gossip & doesn't think it's serious.

His agent has now apparently backtracked on just about everything btw & says yaya wants a coaching job at City when he retires & has no offers of deals with other clubs 'as he has a 3 year contract at City'.

So does that make him more or less of a cunt ?

When City fans ask for loyalty, they could actually earn it by giving people the benefit of the doubt in this kind of situation. Many don't, so have no case imo. We are all guilty of this at different times, but this kind of bollocks brings out the worst in us imo.

This agent shite is par for the course in many countries & often in this one nowardays.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about.

For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'.

So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like.

It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ?

For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had.

Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them.

If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

Sorry mate I'm not buying it.

With tevez, I said there was two sides to that story.... but yaya's manager, or "dad" as he likes to call him, mouthing off to every news outlet there is. Then yaya's twitter account is "hacked", then yaya says nothing to call the whole thing off?

It's too much. Either he is a fucking moron or he is a disrespectful cunt.

I really can't see how this can be explained away.

Or he's not a reader of internet gossip & doesn't think it's serious.

His agent has now apparently backtracked on just about everything btw & says yaya wants a coaching job at City when he retires & has no offers of deals with other clubs 'as he has a 3 year contract at City'.

So does that make him more or less of a cunt ?

When City fans ask for loyalty, they could actually earn it by giving people the benefit of the doubt in this kind of situation. Many don't, so have no case imo. We are all guilty of this at different times, but this kind of bollocks brings out the worst in us imo.

This agent shite is par for the course in many countries & often in this one nowardays.

Ted , fans have every fuckign right to be pissed off with him , he should have made a statement claiming it was bolloks instead of the tripe he has spewed out.

And FYI its not a load of bolloks , if it was then fuckign peace talks between the Bergestein and him would not be being made right now.....before the world cup.

[Ted Hughes]

Imo, the only danger to Yaya not seeing out his contract, is City fans being big mouthed & childish in reaction to something they know nothing about.

For all we know, Yaya didn't tweet anything at all & finds out about it the day after, & then reads loads of comments from City fans saying 'sell the cunt'.

So often, our fans are ready to jump on one comment & ram it down a player's throat, even without bothering to find out if he said it or not. Demand loyalty from the players but then turn on them as soon as they say something we don't like.

It's exactly the same thing. Loyalty works both ways & most City fans have none for the players, so why expect it back ?

For most, it's just a job & a chance to do what they love doing & have success at it. One or two grow to love the club, like Micah Richrds for example. What great suppot he's had.

Most of the players are not people you would want to go on holiday with, they are hired guns & that's not just at City, it's at Barca, Real, rags, Liverpool; all of them.

If Yaya refuses to play give him some shit. If not, why not just all grow up & see what happens, instead of making it worse ?

Sorry mate I'm not buying it.

With tevez, I said there was two sides to that story.... but yaya's manager, or "dad" as he likes to call him, mouthing off to every news outlet there is. Then yaya's twitter account is "hacked", then yaya says nothing to call the whole thing off?

It's too much. Either he is a fucking moron or he is a disrespectful cunt.

I really can't see how this can be explained away.

Or he's not a reader of internet gossip & doesn't think it's serious.

His agent has now apparently backtracked on just about everything btw & says yaya wants a coaching job at City when he retires & has no offers of deals with other clubs 'as he has a 3 year contract at City'.

So does that make him more or less of a cunt ?

When City fans ask for loyalty, they could actually earn it by giving people the benefit of the doubt in this kind of situation. Many don't, so have no case imo. We are all guilty of this at different times, but this kind of bollocks brings out the worst in us imo.

This agent shite is par for the course in many countries & often in this one nowardays.

Ted , fans have every fuckign right to be pissed off with him , he should have made a statement claiming it was bolloks instead of the tripe he has spewed out.

And FYI its not a load of bolloks , if it was then fuckign peace talks between the Bergestein and him would not be being made right now.....before the world cup.

We don't know if that's true, either.

Some of it MUST be bollocks, as there are direct opposites in the quotes.

Fans do have every right to slag off Yaya, or they could decide to wait & see. It's a choice.

Yaya also has every right to say fuck all too. He could choose to make a statement. Perhaps he will if he finds out everyone is calling him a wanker, or perhaps he'll just let them stew, because they don't trust him.

If I'd said nowt wrong though & had 1000s f City fans calling me a wanker, after being poty I'd give them as much of a shit summer as possible. I recon you would as well.

[city9_4eva]

On a positive note, this is the most amount of posts in a thread that I have started!! I'm happy!
Can someone give me some attention and respect for that....?!! Or I'm off to the bluemoon forum! I will speak to my agent shortly

[Bianchi on Ice]

On a positive note, this is the most amount of posts in a thread that I have started!! I'm happy!
Can someone give me some attention and respect for that....?!! Or I'm off to the bluemoon forum! I will speak to my agent shortly

Ive got some cake here, kendal yaya not mint cake. Take it all

[phips]

His agent has now apparently backtracked on just about everything btw & says yaya wants a coaching job at City when he retires & has no offers of deals with other clubs 'as he has a 3 year contract at City'.

where was that?

[Dameerto]

The tweets have been deleted now - there are various schools of thought and various rumours about his his twitter account, one tabloid is claiming the positive tweet (from our point of view) was made by a PR person who looks after his social media accounts, and that the negative tweet backing up his agent was made by Yaya himself. Whatever the actual truth is Yaya comes out of this looking like a cnut.

[Two's Kompany]

I think his agent thought he could get Barca/PSG/Bayern to buy him.
When they realised he was going to cost around £40m they walked away, because no matter how good he is (and he will go down as one of our greatest ever), teams aint gonna pay that sort of money and wages for a 31-year-old!
Hence the line about him wanting to be a coach at the club.

[Wooders]

Quite a few people have mentioned it - niw should be a time of celebration but this episode engineered by yaya and his agent has pissed on the fireworks

[sheblue]

Toure comes out of this looking a right clown.

[Hazy2]

should be presented with a Bakewell Tart

[Wonderwall]

Its media fuelled bollox.

If this were football agents spouting transfer rumour bollox we would all be saying I believe it when its on the OS.

We same with this. There is not one official comment or quote from yaya who is away with the world cup squad and has important preparations for what is possibly his last world cup.

lets wait and see what the official word is before we have him executed.

[sidSmith]

Ah. Leave him alone now. Seems he just wants to be loved, and until 2 days ago we all loved him!

Based on the reports from the other players that he's the most skilful in all areas except heading, he'd probably make a great coach.

Once again the press fueling the fire have turned us against one of our own. (Of course he's a dopey idiot, etc, HE'S A FOOTBALLER!!)