Are you saying you don't feel sorry for him?
Yaya wants out
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Are you saying you don't feel sorry for him?
Nah, he's feeling sorry for the footballers of the 80s and 70s.
It'll take a couple of days before he starts feeling sorry for Yaya.
Like the way Suarez did to us last summer?
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Did you get a chance to look at the sas thread yet?
No. It doesn't happen at a single fixed age, because footballers aren't clones of one another. Yaya in particular is freakishly good and could easily play equally well next season IMO, though I'd be expecting some sort of decline to begin after that.
So we would have won the league if it wasn't for Suarez looking for a move?
Diego costa the bastard!
Just tweeted to Yaya, gerrard bought you a cake but slipped with it
Just tweeted to Yaya, gerrard bought you a cake but slipped with it
Ha I was taking the piss!
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seriously is this all a piss take ? if i was city's sheik i'd stick the fucker in the reserves and force him to eat cake until even Kolo's magic diet pills can't save him .
If it weren't for the FFP ruling, they'd probably have done a Tevez on him.
I suspect it's at least as much a case of his agent wanting a bank balance upgrade of such proportions.
Not necessarily. However, it's disruptive for the manager, transfer plans, and could cause resentment in the dressing room. Plus, it can affect some fans relationship with the player.
There's nothing positive about it and it's always going to have some effect.
He must be a sound man. Salt of the earth.
Same money, 3 clauses inserted.
8.3.
1 - The club must provide written acknowledgement of birthday and festive occasions in A5 form.
2- The club must provide a tray bake from tesco's on occasions mentioned in 8.3.1
3 - The team must provide 'bumps' (no kicks at the bottom) on yearly celebration of birth
http://www.espnfc.com/news/story/_/...e-wants-manchester-city-coaching-role?cc=4716
Agent: Toure wants upstairs City role
May 22, 2014
By ESPN staff
Yaya Toure's agent has claimed a future role at Manchester City after he retires would convince the unsettled midfielder to stay at the club.
Dimitry Seluk earlier this week said his client was unhappy at City after the club chose not to celebrate his birthday sufficiently. The agent has insisted that money is not the driving force behind Toure considering a move away from the Etihad Stadium.
And now Seluk has said the Ivory Coast international wants to stay at the "same club for as long as possible" and receive similar treatment to that Real Madrid have given Zinedine Zidane, who became an advisor and assistant coach at the Bernabeu after ending his playing career with the Spanish giants.
"It gives a message -- 'we like you and you're with us forever,'" Seluk told Sky Sports.
"Zidane played then after that he started working for the club. Yaya needs the club in the future. We don't want any more pounds, not a longer contract, nothing like this, only really attention.
"More attention [paid] to Yaya and Yaya must feel happy at the club -- that's the main thing. I'll tell you one more time, we don't need one more pounds in the contract."
Seluk had said Toure was ready to leave City because the club's owners showed him a lack of respect on his 31st birthday by not shaking his hand upon the squad's arrival in the United Arab Emirates this week.
City presented Toure with a birthday cake and also tweeted a message, but Seluk claimed his client was still unhappy because he was not a central figure in events staged by the club at the start of the trip.
The midfielder initially played down the row, but later backtracked and offered support for his agent's claims, saying: "Everything Dimitri said is true. He speaks for me. I will explain after the World Cup."
Club sources have told ESPN FC that City are not contemplating the sale of Toure, who they signed from Barcelona for 24 million pounds in 2010, or planning to offer him a new contract after granting him a 200,000 pounds-a-week deal last year.
Agent: Toure wants upstairs City role
May 22, 2014
By ESPN staff
Yaya Toure's agent has claimed a future role at Manchester City after he retires would convince the unsettled midfielder to stay at the club.
Dimitry Seluk earlier this week said his client was unhappy at City after the club chose not to celebrate his birthday sufficiently. The agent has insisted that money is not the driving force behind Toure considering a move away from the Etihad Stadium.
And now Seluk has said the Ivory Coast international wants to stay at the "same club for as long as possible" and receive similar treatment to that Real Madrid have given Zinedine Zidane, who became an advisor and assistant coach at the Bernabeu after ending his playing career with the Spanish giants.
"It gives a message -- 'we like you and you're with us forever,'" Seluk told Sky Sports.
"Zidane played then after that he started working for the club. Yaya needs the club in the future. We don't want any more pounds, not a longer contract, nothing like this, only really attention.
"More attention [paid] to Yaya and Yaya must feel happy at the club -- that's the main thing. I'll tell you one more time, we don't need one more pounds in the contract."
Seluk had said Toure was ready to leave City because the club's owners showed him a lack of respect on his 31st birthday by not shaking his hand upon the squad's arrival in the United Arab Emirates this week.
City presented Toure with a birthday cake and also tweeted a message, but Seluk claimed his client was still unhappy because he was not a central figure in events staged by the club at the start of the trip.
The midfielder initially played down the row, but later backtracked and offered support for his agent's claims, saying: "Everything Dimitri said is true. He speaks for me. I will explain after the World Cup."
Club sources have told ESPN FC that City are not contemplating the sale of Toure, who they signed from Barcelona for 24 million pounds in 2010, or planning to offer him a new contract after granting him a 200,000 pounds-a-week deal last year.
Yaya is a little attention whore
Big Jessie. As my grandad would've said.
First Messi and Ronaldo and now Zidane, he'll be wanting those Pele erectile dysfunction adverts next.
No, but we would have surely won it had we sold the cunt.
You know, we're a better team w/o him...
Congrats, Yaya Toure, you deserve it
Football is a vision of excellence in this unhappy time of endless electioneering
Yaya Toure played a key role in Manchester City's title triumph
Declan Lynch – Updated 25 May 2014 02:58 AM
LOOKS like they picked the wrong week to wind up the football season, with nothing but the thought of last night's Champions League final to get us through this unhappy time of incessant electioneering.
Also in this section
Watching those Prime Time debates, we were able to identify one of the many things that makes the old football so attractive, a simple and obvious thing perhaps, but one that is rarely mentioned – it presents us with visions of excellence.
These visions are to be found even in the more humble of Premier League games, moments when we know that we have seen something that we ourselves could never do, and thus in some small way our hearts are lifted.
The same might have been said about our politics, perhaps 70 years ago, when it was one of the few forms of entertainment available in Ireland, and its practitioners were obliged to have certain special talents such as the ability to speak in a very loud voice while standing on the back of a truck, to provide the people with some form of crude excitement before the age of television.
And we are not being unduly disparaging here. As Kingsley Amis explained, before the invention of television, and all that it can do, Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure might have been considered quite enjoyable. After it, not so much...
So during the last fortnight we have had to absorb the shock of withdrawal from a particularly absorbing Premier League, followed by the arrival of a form of drama in which the only truly engaging characters are the ones who are irretrievably barking mad.
It's been tough, but there has been some diversion with the announcement of Louis van Gaal as the new manager of struggling Manchester United. We know it is not possible for him to do much worse than David Moyes – indeed all our instincts tell us that he will do considerably better – and yet we wonder if any man can restore the aura of superiority created over many years by the strongman Ferguson.
The world has been laughing at United for a year now, and it could be a long way back from there. They have disgraced themselves on the ground and in the air, with fans hiring planes to "send a message" to various parties, a form of eejitry which reached impossible depths when a plane flew over Anfield to taunt Steven Gerrard about the fact that Manchester United had won the league on 20 occasions, whereas Gerrard had never won the league.
Thus their self-esteem had apparently been eroded to such an extent, they were comparing the entire history of their club with the career of one Liverpool player – bragging about it indeed.
Though weirdly, despite all the embarrassment, they are also finding it tough to say goodbye to this season, due to the unexpected pleasure they derived from Gerrard's mistake in the decisive match against Chelsea.
Indeed so special was this season, United fans would look to the Liverpool DVD for that one sweet moment, while the Liverpool fans, devastated that it got away from them in the end, would probably get the deepest satisfaction from watching the United DVD all the way through.
We can hardly hope for better in 2014/15, for the emergence of another great "character" such as Tim Sherwood at Tottenham, and yet the contribution of Yaya Toure last week seemed to suggest an almost unlimited vista.
With Manchester City still drunk on the delirium of another title, Yaya – or his agent – declared that he had been disrespected by the club, due to what he perceived as a failure to pay him all the tribute that was his due, on the occasion of his birthday.
If this had come from a star of a lesser branch of the entertainment industry, from a movie idol, for example, we would have considered it quite normal – we accept that people of great artistic talent may be profoundly sensitive, that despite their accomplishments and their massive wealth they may be plunged into despondency by what the average man might regard as a relatively slight offence.
Yet when a great footballer displays signs of "temperament" after a season of barn-storming achievement, we tend to think that he is being a tad unreasonable, and he may even be mocked – unlike, say, a Vladimir Putin or even some EU potentate who achieve nothing that is any good, yet who are constantly assured of their own magnificence by their drooling flunkies.
So rather than disrespecting Yaya Toure as others have done, personally I rejoice in the notion that some portion of my Sky subscription, however small, may be going to pay his wages of £18m a week or whatever it is – indeed my only regret is that I am not giving more. And I wish him the happiest of birthdays, from his many admirers here in Ireland.
We do indeed have to empathise with the man's grievance, because in all likelihood Yaya Toure and all the other Yayas will be keeping us going with their prodigious gifts during the World Cup and throughout the long season that follows, when everything else is about as exciting as a six-month-old election poster with a Hitler moustache on it.
We should be thanking him for putting it all in perspective.
Sunday Independent
Football is a vision of excellence in this unhappy time of endless electioneering
Yaya Toure played a key role in Manchester City's title triumph
Declan Lynch – Updated 25 May 2014 02:58 AM
LOOKS like they picked the wrong week to wind up the football season, with nothing but the thought of last night's Champions League final to get us through this unhappy time of incessant electioneering.
Also in this section
Watching those Prime Time debates, we were able to identify one of the many things that makes the old football so attractive, a simple and obvious thing perhaps, but one that is rarely mentioned – it presents us with visions of excellence.
These visions are to be found even in the more humble of Premier League games, moments when we know that we have seen something that we ourselves could never do, and thus in some small way our hearts are lifted.
The same might have been said about our politics, perhaps 70 years ago, when it was one of the few forms of entertainment available in Ireland, and its practitioners were obliged to have certain special talents such as the ability to speak in a very loud voice while standing on the back of a truck, to provide the people with some form of crude excitement before the age of television.
And we are not being unduly disparaging here. As Kingsley Amis explained, before the invention of television, and all that it can do, Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure might have been considered quite enjoyable. After it, not so much...
So during the last fortnight we have had to absorb the shock of withdrawal from a particularly absorbing Premier League, followed by the arrival of a form of drama in which the only truly engaging characters are the ones who are irretrievably barking mad.
It's been tough, but there has been some diversion with the announcement of Louis van Gaal as the new manager of struggling Manchester United. We know it is not possible for him to do much worse than David Moyes – indeed all our instincts tell us that he will do considerably better – and yet we wonder if any man can restore the aura of superiority created over many years by the strongman Ferguson.
The world has been laughing at United for a year now, and it could be a long way back from there. They have disgraced themselves on the ground and in the air, with fans hiring planes to "send a message" to various parties, a form of eejitry which reached impossible depths when a plane flew over Anfield to taunt Steven Gerrard about the fact that Manchester United had won the league on 20 occasions, whereas Gerrard had never won the league.
Thus their self-esteem had apparently been eroded to such an extent, they were comparing the entire history of their club with the career of one Liverpool player – bragging about it indeed.
Though weirdly, despite all the embarrassment, they are also finding it tough to say goodbye to this season, due to the unexpected pleasure they derived from Gerrard's mistake in the decisive match against Chelsea.
Indeed so special was this season, United fans would look to the Liverpool DVD for that one sweet moment, while the Liverpool fans, devastated that it got away from them in the end, would probably get the deepest satisfaction from watching the United DVD all the way through.
We can hardly hope for better in 2014/15, for the emergence of another great "character" such as Tim Sherwood at Tottenham, and yet the contribution of Yaya Toure last week seemed to suggest an almost unlimited vista.
With Manchester City still drunk on the delirium of another title, Yaya – or his agent – declared that he had been disrespected by the club, due to what he perceived as a failure to pay him all the tribute that was his due, on the occasion of his birthday.
If this had come from a star of a lesser branch of the entertainment industry, from a movie idol, for example, we would have considered it quite normal – we accept that people of great artistic talent may be profoundly sensitive, that despite their accomplishments and their massive wealth they may be plunged into despondency by what the average man might regard as a relatively slight offence.
Yet when a great footballer displays signs of "temperament" after a season of barn-storming achievement, we tend to think that he is being a tad unreasonable, and he may even be mocked – unlike, say, a Vladimir Putin or even some EU potentate who achieve nothing that is any good, yet who are constantly assured of their own magnificence by their drooling flunkies.
So rather than disrespecting Yaya Toure as others have done, personally I rejoice in the notion that some portion of my Sky subscription, however small, may be going to pay his wages of £18m a week or whatever it is – indeed my only regret is that I am not giving more. And I wish him the happiest of birthdays, from his many admirers here in Ireland.
We do indeed have to empathise with the man's grievance, because in all likelihood Yaya Toure and all the other Yayas will be keeping us going with their prodigious gifts during the World Cup and throughout the long season that follows, when everything else is about as exciting as a six-month-old election poster with a Hitler moustache on it.
We should be thanking him for putting it all in perspective.
Sunday Independent
I don't think I've ever read half a short article about football and paused to think 'what the fuck am I reading?' This is some proper Daily Mail Lindsey Lohan gossip shite.
Is his agent thinking about his pension or is Yaya a bit nuts?
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