Toure, who had been tipped to leave after Guardiola joined from Bayern Munich in the close season, announced earlier on Tuesday his retirement from worldwide football.
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Reports in Portugal claimed Guardiola attended Benfica’s game against Braga on Monday to watch 21-year-old left-back Alex Grimaldo, but Press Association Sport reported on Wednesday that the manager was not in Lisbon and City have no interest in the player. If he does not, he won’t play. He has not had the courage to call me. From that moment he was out. That being, a constant source of information on the options that are available to a client in the course of their short but lucrative careers – the clubs that want them, the clubs that do not, exactly what the going rate is for a player of their level and a strategy as to how to earn it.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, he said that if Pep Guardiola wants a war, then he can have one. Paul Lake the former City captain, addressed the painful aspect of all this for the club’s supporters when he apportioned the lion’s share of the blame to Seluk, a “vacuous moron”, Lake tweeted, “who seems hell bent on annihilating Yaya Toure’s legacy that he’s built at #mcfc”. Pep didn’t like my opinion? I live in Europe so I can say whatever I like and Guardiola can’t stop me. “But I’m not surprised”.
Seluk added that Pep does not want players with personality. These are the biggest players of the club.
“He won the treble with Barcelona and he can win three or four trophies this season”.
“They could be 20 points clear – and he would still not allow complacency”.
At first time, when you go to someone’s house then you should treat them with respect. He was the same at Barcelona.
But the hope at City is that the bitter bust-up between Guardiola and Seluk will change his mind set and force him to move in January.
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Seluk also said Guardiola did not make a difference at his former clubs, noting that Luis Enrique had similar success after taking over Barcelona, and backing Carlo Ancelotti to continue to win more titles at Bayern. I live in Europe so I can say what I like and Guardiola cannot stop me. “If you are a gentleman this just does not happen”.
