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“He [Guardiola] insists he has no problems with black players, because he is too intelligent to be caught out,” Touré said in an interview with France Football to be published on Tuesday. “But when you realise that he has problems with Africans, wherever he goes, I ask myself questions. He will never admit it. But the day he will line up a team in which we find five Africans, not naturalised, I promise I will send him a cake.”
City and Guardiola have refused to comment but it is understood that the club are disappointed by the player’s remarks.
“Pep likes to dominate and wants to have obedient players who lick his hands,” said Touré. “I do not like this kind of relationship. I respect my coach but I am not his thing. Like all players I have bickered with my coaches. But at a certain point men who do not understand each other reconcile. This is not possible with Pep, who is very rigid. The other players will never admit it publicly but some have already told me that they ended up hating him. Because he manipulates and plays a lot with your head.”
Touré added: “I think I was dealing with someone who just wanted revenge on me. I do not know why but I have the impression that he was jealous of me, that he took me for a rival. There you have it. We always looked at each other weirdly. He was spinning around me without saying anything, watching me, gauging me but not talking to me. Yet he knows that I speak Catalan, Spanish and English. It should be enough to communicate. But apparently no ... Every time we passed each other, he seemed embarrassed. As if I made him a little self-conscious. As if, also, he had understood that I knew him perfectly.”
“As someone proud, he wants to succeed with his players, those he has chosen and not those who have been chosen by others. This is his project. And woe to him who does not belong to it. Actually I want to be the one who breaks the Guardiola myth a bit. Barcelona, he did not invent it. He just had the intelligence to adapt what Cruyff had set up. Then, at Bayern and City, he tried to reproduce the same patterns but with this requirement: working with ‘his’ players and with almost unlimited means. It would not work at Crystal Palace or Watford.
“For me Zidane is bigger because he has fewer requirements and shows great respect for all his players. Pep, he wants to be considered a genius. He loves it. But there is a lot of comedy behind all this, it’s a bit of anything. He creates a character. When I see him scratching his head in full match to show that he thinks thoroughly, it makes me laugh. It’s comedy.”
City and Guardiola have refused to comment but it is understood that the club are disappointed by the player’s remarks.
“Pep likes to dominate and wants to have obedient players who lick his hands,” said Touré. “I do not like this kind of relationship. I respect my coach but I am not his thing. Like all players I have bickered with my coaches. But at a certain point men who do not understand each other reconcile. This is not possible with Pep, who is very rigid. The other players will never admit it publicly but some have already told me that they ended up hating him. Because he manipulates and plays a lot with your head.”
Touré added: “I think I was dealing with someone who just wanted revenge on me. I do not know why but I have the impression that he was jealous of me, that he took me for a rival. There you have it. We always looked at each other weirdly. He was spinning around me without saying anything, watching me, gauging me but not talking to me. Yet he knows that I speak Catalan, Spanish and English. It should be enough to communicate. But apparently no ... Every time we passed each other, he seemed embarrassed. As if I made him a little self-conscious. As if, also, he had understood that I knew him perfectly.”
“As someone proud, he wants to succeed with his players, those he has chosen and not those who have been chosen by others. This is his project. And woe to him who does not belong to it. Actually I want to be the one who breaks the Guardiola myth a bit. Barcelona, he did not invent it. He just had the intelligence to adapt what Cruyff had set up. Then, at Bayern and City, he tried to reproduce the same patterns but with this requirement: working with ‘his’ players and with almost unlimited means. It would not work at Crystal Palace or Watford.
“For me Zidane is bigger because he has fewer requirements and shows great respect for all his players. Pep, he wants to be considered a genius. He loves it. But there is a lot of comedy behind all this, it’s a bit of anything. He creates a character. When I see him scratching his head in full match to show that he thinks thoroughly, it makes me laugh. It’s comedy.”
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"He will never admit it. But the day he will line up a team in which we find five Africans, not naturalised, I promise I will send him a cake".
Poor Yaya seems to have a bit of a thing about les gateaux. Didn't get one for his birthday and now this. |
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Actually I want to be the one who breaks the Guardiola myth a bit
Sorry Yaya, I got there first, been calling out Mythiola for YEARS  unfortunately nobody is interested in what is said on an internet forum.Barcelona, he did not invent it. He just had the intelligence to adapt what Cruyff had set up. Then, at Bayern and City, he tried to reproduce the same patterns but with this requirement: working with ‘his’ players and with almost unlimited means. It would not work at Crystal Palace or Watford. “For me Zidane is bigger because he has fewer requirements and shows great respect for all his players. Pep, he wants to be considered a genius. He loves it. But there is a lot of comedy behind all this, it’s a bit of anything. He creates a character. When I see him scratching his head in full match to show that he thinks thoroughly, it makes me laugh. It’s comedy.” few weeks ago I said Zidane was a better manager than Pep, but it was put to me that "those that know the game" know Pep is the better manager, Yaya knows the game, Kind Regards  |
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its the old chestnut you think you no better than Fergie,wenger,pep,etc,etc despite billions and billions pouds of evidence that these gods have spent on people who couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo ,they defend them for 18 months telling us we [joe public] don't no what we,re looking at ,before sneaking them out on loan to a belgum,scottish div 2 team
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'I respect my coach but...'
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Yeah, i'm gonna take the word of a grown man who cried his little eyes out because he felt the club hadn't wished him happy birthday.
No respect for 'Waaaah Waaaah' Toure after that. |
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Anybody that doesn't regard Guardiola as likely the best coach on the planet right now doesn't have a clue. Zidane didn't get close to La Liga in two of the three seasons, and it could be argued the only reason they won it under him was because Luis Enrique had gone stale. Winning the Champions Leagues is a hell of an achievement, but if you want to scrutinize: first one on penalties, second against an average Juventus, and the third win was a joke
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That article says reflects worse on Toure than Pep. The guy wins the league playing the best football but he's a fraud....well I'll take that fraud any day of the week over the non frauds left trailing in his wake.
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Zidane won 3 European Cups in a row , pep and the oil rig have never even been in a final despite unlimited oil lottery
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I donk think many people sat in front of the tv before the l,pool away leg thinking city wrere big favs,and if they played psg,barca ,madrid,bayern not many would have their last penny on pep
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zidane 17 pts off the pace in la liga,out on his duff
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toure looks a bigger mug with this yep
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Jeez how long have those feelings festered under his bonnet?
Some think he may follow pelligrini to WHU. The club have a well documented er uneasy relationship with African players. So it's a lay for me. After those comments the only way he will come to the hammers is over the dwarf's (Sullivan's)dead body. |
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Zidane may be 17 points but he deprived mersey port of the European Cup , for that he has our everlasting thanks
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You'd have to be mentally ill to join a sh1te club like West Ham so it's a big back for me.
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We'll soon be saying "he's having a yaya" when someone's on meltdown
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ben yedder at chokerrr,what a night,what a choke
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“At a time when huge sums are being spent in England for the purchase of football players, I officially declare that Yaya is ready to move as a free agent to any English club of the top six with a salary of one-pound-a-week. But for certain successes to make a bonus system.
“I believe that a player like Yaya would not reject Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and Liverpool. Yaya is a winner. “And never before has a top footballer with leadership qualities rejected any club, especially when they don’t have to pay for it.” Yaya's agent Selyuk |
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Generous of Yaya to offer Pep a cake if he picks 5 Africans...as it happens he has picked 4 in a Champions League game. Wonder why Yaya signed a contract last year if he was so disgruntled with Pep (££££££££££££££££££££££££££££). Hopefully Pep will sue him for defamation of character, shortly after he signs Mahrez his next African player
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There's an old African saying...every worker complaint must include a reference to a cake.
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Think about it.
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Before the Champions League formed in 92, teams in Europe were winning back to back European Cups on a regular basis, some of them 3 times in a row, after 92, none of the great European could manage it because it was too difficult, more games, higher quality opposition from 2nd/3rd and eventually 4th placed teams from the superior leagues rather than just pub champions from pub leagues, that was until Zidane and his Real Madrid team won 2 CL in row then 3. The AC Milan teams of 90's couldn't do it, the treble winning United team couldn't do it, the Galatico's couldn't do it and neither could Pep's Barcelona or any of Jose's Chelsea teams that spunked billions on players.
That's how hard it is to win successive Champions League titles, you are play the creme de la creme from the KO stages at least - whereas in La Liga, realistically Barcelona have 1 team to contend with 8 or 9 seasons out of 10, when Simeone leaves it will revert just to the same old duopoly it always was. Trying to beat off competition from 1 team in your domestic league compared to having to get through teams like Bayern, PSG and Juventus is a whole different ball game, the CL is far harder to win. I've no idea who people so readily give praise to Barca for trouncing their league when they buy players for £100 mil, £150 mil on a wim, in the CL they meet teams that do the same and they can't sustain that success - Zidane did. |
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Yaya.... Sounds like he's enjoyed adding a little bit too much of the old Durban Poison into his cake mix
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have you been living under a rock mover
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so who have they bought for £150m?
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Is the point your making Coutinho was actually £142 million, forgive me, I was 8 mil out and that makes all the difference to my point.
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No where, near. You're including all the possible add-ons.
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https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-barcelona/
transferrekorde/verein/131 |
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Real Madrid :
https://www.transfermarkt.com/real-madrid/ transferrekorde/verein/418 |
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£135 mil for Dembele? 80 mil for Suarez?
Can you not see the point I'm making which your detracting from frivolously - they far outspend 90% of the competiton in La Liga, they can't do that in Europe. |
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You're suggesting Barcelona romp the league because they spend big, whereas Real Madrid don't?
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Barcelona went out to Roma, not one of the big spending clubs
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anyway we digress....#dooneyaya
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I always find it really odd how some people become so obsessed in proving that a manager, despite many trophies is rubbish.
Offering up Zidane as the greatest thing since sliced bread seems a little premature given his short limited career. |
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No I'm not, read my post properly, I said the opposite.
Trying to beat off competition from 1 team in your domestic league compared to having to get through teams like Bayern, PSG and Juventus is a whole different ball game They outspend teams in La Liga bar Madrid so they've realistically have 1 challenger more often than not. CL is more difficult because the standard is far higher in general and teams have more money to spend than in La Liga which is why Zidane has proven to be a better manager than Pep. |
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But keep lavishing praise on Mythiola because he choose your club to manager - nothing to do with history or prestige of course or the lovely sights of Manchester that De Gea's wife described as a back of a fridge - but the colour of the Arabs money
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if you don't like Guardiola as a manager fair enough, we are all entitled to our opinions. Will be interesting to see where Zidane goes from here.
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Be in Manchester either Xmas or for the new season after that
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He is a good manager obviously in the way he coaches his players to play football but he is vastly overrated based upon the fact he has had the easiest of rides in football management, walking into a Barca team that had the calibre of players they did, the year before they had regressed under Rijkaard but he already lost his way and anyone coming into that job with the likes of Messi, Henry, Xavi, Iniesta and Eto'o would have found it more difficult to fail than succeed once they got rid of the likes of Ronaldinho who was a shadow of his former self. Then he takes over the treble winning European Champions and takes them backwards, not 1 CL final in 3 years let alone a win, in the Bundesliga he Heynecks in his last season his team had 98 goals, 91 points and +80 GD, in Pep's 3 season he never once bettered that, then he takes over the richest in the world, buys defenders for 50 million a pop and wins the title and everyone is supposed to impressed?
 Can't stand Mourninho but I have more respect for him as a manager based on what he did in his early days, winning the CL with teams that were no where near favourites at the time, Inter and Porto, incidentally he lost his way to. Benetiz is another I have more respect for, won La Liga with a team not called Madrid or Barca, won the CL with Liverpool when again he made the sum much greater than it's parts and reached another final, would Pep go down a division mid career and bring a team back up like he did? doubt it. If takes over Roma or a Dortmund or Valencia or Marseille and he wins the league, then that is impressive, the successes of a chequebook manager, not so much. |