Guardiola Blasts Toure Agent: Apologise Or He Won't Play For Manchester City Again |PoliFocus

Comments from midfielder's representative mean the Ivorian will continue to play no part until Seluk says sorry.

Pep Guardiola says Yaya Toure will not feature for Manchester City until his agent apologises for his recent outbursts in the media.


Guardiola left Toure out of his Champions Leaguesquad this season and Goal understands City were keen to move the Ivorian on if they could find a willing buyer in the summer transfer window.

Toure's agent, Dmitri Seluk,  told the press a day after his exclusion from that squad that the decision "humiliated" his client, and that "if City don’t win the Champions League then I hope that Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya."

According to Goal.com, Guardiola, however, has not taken kindly to the outburst, and said on the eve of City's League Cup clash with Swansea City that Toure will play no part, and that he can expect to be left out until Seulk contacts the City boss and his players to make amends.

"It was so difficult for me to put him out in the Champions League," Guardiola said. "So difficult. I know him, I know he’s a good good guy, but it was difficult for me as well to put Aleix Garcia out, [they are] the only two players that are out, because the list is the list. "

But the day after his manager spoke. In that moment Yaya is out. Except Mr Dmitri Seluk comes back in the press conference, or his friends in the media, he has the courage to call me, go to the media and say apologise to Manchester City, the first one, the second one is his team-mates and after the trainer.

When that happens Yaya will be part of the group and he willhave the same chance to play all the games. Because I cannot accept as a coach, every manager when his player doesn’t play goes to themedia and speak and speak and speak. It depends.

I know how Dmitri Seluk loves to Yaya Toure, if he loves me, show me and make apologise to Manchester City what he did in the [media]. I cannot imagine in my period when I was a football player, my manager going to the media and speaking against Johan Cruyff, about this and about that.

Maybe it’s a new era now, thenew period changing, but I’m an old guy. I am old generation, and old generation managers has to make his players his job and trainers his job, and today the managers believe they are more then they are.

If he has a problem call Txiki Begiristain,the club, and they can talk, until he doesn’t speak, Yaya is not going to play."

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