Manchester City Boss, Pep Guardiola is very angry with one of his best players, Yaya Toure… “The day after that, his agent spoke and in that moment, Yaya is out. Unless Mr Dimitri Seluk comes back to the press or to his friends in the media – because he hasn’t the courage to call me, he goes to the media – and apologises to Manchester City first of all, then his team-mates and afterwards the trainer… When that happens, Yaya will be part of the group and he will have the chance to play.”

“I cannot accept as a coach that every agent, when his player doesn’t play, goes to the media and speaks. I know how much Dimitri Seluk loves Yaya Toure. If he loves him, show me by apologising to Manchester City for what he said in the papers. I cannot imagine in my day when a player’s agent would go to the media and speak against Johan Cruyff.”

“Maybe it’s the new era, but I’m from the old generation, and an old-generation agent has to make his players his job and the coach his job. Today agents believe they are more than they are. If you have a problem, we can talk. Until he speaks, Yaya isn’t going to play. It was so difficult for me to leave him out of the Champions League squad. So difficult. I know him and I know he’s a good guy. It was difficult as well for Aleix Garcia.”

Yaya Toure’s agent has said that: “If Guardiola wins the Champions League for City this season, then I will travel to England and I will say on television that Pep Guardiola is the best manager in the world. But 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.”