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  • Yaya Toure to leave Man City at end of season

    Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure will leave the Premier League champions at the end of the season.

    The 34-year-old will make his final appearance against Brighton on Wednesday, said manager Pep Guardiola.

    Ivory Coast international Toure, who joined City from Barcelona for a fee of about £24m in 2010, signed a new one-year contract in June 2017.

    “Yaya came here at the start of the journey,” said Guardiola. “Where we are now is because of what he has done.”

    “We cannot forget the period from Roberto Mancini, and especially Manuel Pellegrini, Yaya was the key player.

    “The Brighton game we will give him what he deserves, one of the most beautiful farewells a player can receive.

    “All the game will we be focused on winning for Yaya, we are going to try to do it for him.”

    City host Brighton on 9 May before travelling to Southampton for the final game of the season.

    Toure has made 229 Premier League appearances in his eight seasons at Etihad Stadium.

    He has won three league titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups in his time at the club but has made just nine league appearances this season.

    BBC

  • Yaya Toure set for surprise Cote D’Ivoire return

    Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure will return to international football more than three years since his last game for his country, after being named in the squad for friendlies in France.

    Toure who will turn 35 in May has shunned internationals since leading the Ivorians to the African Nations Cup title in early 2015 .

    He made a surprise announcement in December that he wanted to return in spite of the country failing to reach this year’s World Cup finals.

    Eric Bailly of Manchester United and Crystal Palace’s Wilfried Zaha, both just back from injury, were also named by caretaker coach Ibrahim Kamara.

    The trio are named by Kamara in a 24-man squad to play Togo on March 24 and Moldova three days later.

     

  • My dream is to make City bigger than Manchester United – Toure

    Yaya Toure could be extending his Manchester City career beyond next summer after repairing his relationship with manager Pep Guardiola.

    Manchester City appear unlikely to offer the Ivorian a new contract when his current £230,000-a-week deal runs out at the end of the season.

    Guardiola’s side have won all five games Toure has started this season, and he is likely to play a more prominent role now that Ilkay Gundogan is expected to miss the rest of the campaign with a knee injury.

    The 33-yr-old midfielder said, ‘When I signed for City, I came to this club to make history, I want this club to be bigger than Manchester United. I know it’s going to be a lot of work, but that’s my dream.

    ‘I want to make something very important. I already won two Premier League titles and I want more than that, another new story.

    ‘I have been lucky to play at big clubs – Barcelona and Olympiakos. Those teams were always used to being champions. But City, it was something different, and I am happy now,’ he concluded.

    ‘I think I’ve always been a key figure. To be honest, I belong on the field.’

  • BREAKING: Yaya Toure banned, fined £54,000 for drink-driving

    Ivory Coast midfielder, Yaya Toure, has been banned from driving for 18 months and fined £54,000 ($68,500, 64,600 euros) for drink-driving. The player personally disclosed this on his Facebook wall on Tuesday.

    Recall that the four-time African player of the Year and a member of the Ivory Coast side that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, is a Muslim.

    His post on facebook reads: “Over the last two weeks there has been some confusion as to why I was charged with drink driving, as it is well known that I am a Muslim and do not drink.

    Toure was stopped last month while driving in east London and found to be over the limit.

    “I have always refused alcohol. Anyone who knows me or follows football will have seen me refuse champagne for Man of the Match performances because of my commitment to my religion.”

    Toure, who retired from international football in September, said the court had also accepted he had not intentionally drunk alcohol but had nevertheless punished him according to the law.

    “The matter has now been resolved in court on Monday,” wrote Toure, who only recently returned to first team action with Manchester City after a stand-off with manager Pep Guardiola caused by his agent.

    “As I was above the permitted limit when tested on the night, I decided not to challenge the charge.

    “However, it was important to me that I told the court that I had not intentionally consumed alcohol. The judge in his sentencing remarks accepted that I had not been intentionally drinking.

    “Drink driving is a serious crime and even though I was not intentionally consuming alcohol I accept the ban and fine and I would like to apologise for this situation.”

  • Yaya Toure charged with drink driving, to be arraigned Dec 13

    Yaya Toure charged with drink driving, to be arraigned Dec 13

    Manchester City’s forward Yaya Toure has been charged with drink driving.

    The Police say the 33-year-old was stopped in Dagenham on Monday night and charged the following day.

    Toure was bailed and is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on December 13.

    “Yaya Toure, 33, of Macclesfield, Cheshire, was charged on Tuesday November 29 with a driving offence, which involved driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level was above the legal limit,” the Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement.

    “He will appear on bail at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, December 13. The charge follows a stop of a car in Dagenham at around 11pm on Monday, November 28”, it added.

    In 2012, Toure declined a bottle of champagne awarded to him as a Man of the Match and offered it to team-mate Joleon Lescott.

    He said at the time: “I don’t drink because I am a Muslim, so you keep it.”