adminLONDON. — Yaya Toure will become the first big-name player to buy himself out of his contract if Manchester City try to keep him for the final year of his current deal.
The Ivory Coast international is ready to make City pay for their reluctance to hand him a new three-year agreement by invoking a controversial FIFA regulation to become a free agent in the summer.
Toure’s adviser, Dimitri Seluk, told Mirror Sport that City’s director of football Txiki Begiristain has broken two promises about a timetable for negotiations for a contract extension.
And tough-talking Seluk has given City two options now that the club have made it clear there will be no new offer ahead of Pep Guardiola’s arrival at the Etihad. The first is to hand the 32-year-old a free transfer in the summer as reward for a six-year stint at the Etihad that has arguably made Toure the most important player in the club’s history. — The Mirror.
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