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Managers Thread; Spain sack Lopetegui. Yes, really.
Topic Started: 21 May 2016, 09:07 PM (998,090 Views)
Butters
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4 Jun 2018, 08:43 PM
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4 Jun 2018, 06:51 PM
France Football publishes tomorrow an interview of Yaya Touré that Pep Guardiola won't like. I guess it will be quoted in British medias.
He doesn't like Africans. :ffs:
Should never have sold Eto'o, he was better than everyone he replaced him with at Barcelona.

Not that it means Guardiola hates Africans I hasten to add :lol:
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Oooft. He's not holding back..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44364542

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola "often has problems with Africans", says ex-Blues midfielder Yaya Toure.

The Ivorian, who left City in May after eight years at the club, says he wants to "break the myth" about Guardiola, whom he describes as "jealous".

"Maybe we Africans are not always treated by some in the same way as others," said Toure in an interview with France Football.

Premier League champions City have declined to comment on Toure's views.

Before his departure, the club named one of their training pitches after him and unveiled a mosaic of him at their training complex.

This summer they are set to sign France-born Algeria international Riyad Mahrez from Leicester City.

Toure, an Ivory Coast international, played for Guardiola at Barcelona for two seasons until he was sold to City in 2010 for £24m.

He won six major trophies in England but started just one Premier League game in City's latest title-winning campaign - their final home fixture of the season against Brighton.

Prior to that game, Guardiola said: "Yaya came here at the start of the journey. Where we are now is because of what he has done.

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

Toure completed 86 minutes against Brighton, having featured for 142 minutes in the league prior to that this season.

He believes that was "not down to physics", saying he sought data from the club's trainers to compare himself to younger players.

Guardiola won six league titles as a player at Barcelona and has added a further seven as a manager during spells with the Catalan club, Bayern Munich and City.

Toure said: "I do not know why but I have the impression that he was jealous, he took me for a rival. As if I made him a little shade.

"He was cruel to me. I came to wonder if it was not because of my colour.

"I am not the first to talk about these differences in treatment. In Barca, some have also asked the question.

"When we realise he often has problems with Africans wherever he goes, I ask myself questions.

"I want to be the one who breaks the myth of Guardiola."

Toure started 22 league games under Guardiola in the 2016-17 season, and says he was asked to stay for another year, but then used sparingly

Edited by Tim Bombadil, 5 Jun 2018, 08:19 AM.
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Grauniad covers more of the interview:

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/04/yaya-toure-pep-guardiola-manchester-city-break-myth
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How long before “I was misinterpreted”?
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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.


Excellent. :lmao:
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I think Guardiola maybe had problems with Toure rather than Africans in general.
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Can we run a sweepstake on the date Bielsa leaves Leeds? I’ll go August 23rd
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It's possible to show that Guardiola is not quite the person or manager people like to portray him as.

But there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that Toure is a complete arsehole.
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Pep loved Seydou Keita when he was a Barca.

Toure lost the plot over a birthday cake.
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Hagi Bhoy
4 Jun 2018, 07:30 PM
Hoops_in_Paris
4 Jun 2018, 06:51 PM
France Football publishes tomorrow an interview of Yaya Touré that Pep Guardiola won't like. I guess it will be quoted in British medias.
Why does he mention player doping in it? :lol:

Will it ever dawn on Yaya Touré that maybe he's the dick?

Guardiola has a simple answer. I sold Touré at Barca because Busquets was better. I left him our at City because Fernandinho was better.
That AND he's African.
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5 Jun 2018, 10:11 AM
Pep loved Seydou Keita when he was a Barca.

Toure lost the plot over a birthday cake.
Yaya seems like the kind of guy who doesn’t tell anyone it’s his birthday and then sulks when nobody remembers it.
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It wasn't that long ago the Yaya claimed he wasn't considered for the Ballon D'or because he was black, now that he can't get a game for City it's because he's African. He also can't seem to make up his mind if Pep is xenophobic or racist, or maybe both.

He seems like a world class pumpkin; we definitely got the cool brother.
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Did Man City not name their training pitch after him as a parting gesture ha ha ha?
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Toure and Guardiola are both carrots.

Kolo is class
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5 Jun 2018, 12:50 PM
Toure and Guardiola are both carrots.

Kolo is class
Morally questionable character himself if his ex nanny is to be believed.
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Kluivert's to be interviewed for the St Mirren job
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5 Jun 2018, 04:08 PM
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Toure and Guardiola are both carrots.

Kolo is class
Morally questionable character himself if his ex nanny is to be believed.
What, did he not follow Nanny's rules in the nursery?
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5 Jun 2018, 04:22 PM
Kluivert's to be interviewed for the St Mirren job
It's only been about a week since Jack Ross left but in that time St Mirren's attempts to recruit a new manager have been about as entertaining shambolic as can be expected.
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5 Jun 2018, 04:41 PM
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5 Jun 2018, 04:22 PM
Kluivert's to be interviewed for the St Mirren job
It's only been about a week since Jack Ross left but in that time St Mirren's attempts to recruit a new manager have been about as entertaining shambolic as can be expected.
Any decent youth coaches kicking around?
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