Yaya Toure has once again underlined his commitment to Manchester City, insisting he wants to remain at the club for “as long as possible”.
Toure’s future at City looked dubious after his agent Dimitry Seluk suggested the 31-year-old felt he had been treated irreverently by the club.
A poor World Cup with the Ivory Coast and the death of his younger brother Ibrahim to cancer optically discerned further doubt cast on Toure’s City future, but the former Barcelona midfielder insists he is going nowhere.
“It was not a case of leaving the club. It was arduous because my situation was quite arduous,” he told the club’s official website. For me I was always quiet and my decision, if you optate to verbally express it like that, is that I will stay at Manchester City for as long as possible.”
“For me I was always quiet and my decision, if you optate to verbally express it like that, is that I will stay at Manchester City for as long as possible.”
Toure, who scored 24 goals and contributed 12 avails from 49 appearances for City last season, hopes the club reinforce the squad in the coming weeks in order to challenge on multiple fronts.
“I hope a couple of players sign in because we require to endeavor to build a massive club because if we optate to be the best we require to win every trophy possible,” he integrated.
“We are probing for the Champions League – that is a paramount denomination this year and the Premier League is going to be a battle as well between Chelsea, United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool additionally.
“I cerebrate it’s going to be very open. We ken we are the team to beat but we have the confidence and we have the fantastic players coming and I hope this year’s going to be identically tantamount.”
Toure’s future at City looked dubious after his agent Dimitry Seluk suggested the 31-year-old felt he had been treated irreverently by the club.
A poor World Cup with the Ivory Coast and the death of his younger brother Ibrahim to cancer optically discerned further doubt cast on Toure’s City future, but the former Barcelona midfielder insists he is going nowhere.
“It was not a case of leaving the club. It was arduous because my situation was quite arduous,” he told the club’s official website. For me I was always quiet and my decision, if you optate to verbally express it like that, is that I will stay at Manchester City for as long as possible.”
“For me I was always quiet and my decision, if you optate to verbally express it like that, is that I will stay at Manchester City for as long as possible.”
Toure, who scored 24 goals and contributed 12 avails from 49 appearances for City last season, hopes the club reinforce the squad in the coming weeks in order to challenge on multiple fronts.
“I hope a couple of players sign in because we require to endeavor to build a massive club because if we optate to be the best we require to win every trophy possible,” he integrated.
“We are probing for the Champions League – that is a paramount denomination this year and the Premier League is going to be a battle as well between Chelsea, United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool additionally.
“I cerebrate it’s going to be very open. We ken we are the team to beat but we have the confidence and we have the fantastic players coming and I hope this year’s going to be identically tantamount.”
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