Comments on: Pep Guardiola and Yaya Touré http://www.viewfromablue.com/2017/09/13/pep-guardiola-and-yaya-toure/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pep-guardiola-and-yaya-toure Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Mike http://www.viewfromablue.com/2017/09/13/pep-guardiola-and-yaya-toure/#comment-869959 Mike Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:11:48 +0000 http://www.viewfromablue.com/?p=11674#comment-869959 in my time watching City only Bert Trautman, Colin Bell, David Silva, Sergio and Kompany have been of comparable importance to the team and club as Yaya. It was a master stroke to buy him but unlike all the others I mentioned he has always seemed disgruntled and open to a move elsewhere. At 34 he will struggle to hold down a regular slot now but I hope the current stand off can be resolved and leaves the club in the same way Zaba did in my time watching City only Bert Trautman, Colin Bell, David Silva, Sergio and Kompany have been of comparable importance to the team and club as Yaya. It was a master stroke to buy him but unlike all the others I mentioned he has always seemed disgruntled and open to a move elsewhere. At 34 he will struggle to hold down a regular slot now but I hope the current stand off can be resolved and leaves the club in the same way Zaba did

]]> By: Alphie_Izzett http://www.viewfromablue.com/2017/09/13/pep-guardiola-and-yaya-toure/#comment-869957 Alphie_Izzett Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:59:51 +0000 http://www.viewfromablue.com/?p=11674#comment-869957 I look with much reservation on any article that quotes the Daily Star and backs this up with the Daily Mirror. This may be leaking a well kept secret Vikki, but they invent stuff and then use each others nonsense to give psuedo-credibility to each other. Rather than quote unreliable sources just report what you see and what you feel about what you see (or in this case what you don't see - Yaya anywhere near a football) because most Blues blessed with more than a couple of brain cells are interested in the opinions of other fans who are willing to take the time and trouble to blog. For what it's worth I'd point out that it was Pep who made the decision to extend Yaya's contract. Yaya could have taken a bigger wedge to go to China but wanted to stay. Yaya sometimes loses the drive and ambition to maintain his training and limit his diet, but when he re-focuses is usually pretty awesome. He may be finished, in which case the gamble Pep took didn't pay off, but I wouldn't write him off just yet. I expect to see the big man back, at some stage, lean and fit and raring to play. Mind you, I'm not often right :-) Alph I look with much reservation on any article that quotes the Daily Star and backs this up with the Daily Mirror.

This may be leaking a well kept secret Vikki, but they invent stuff and then use each others nonsense to give psuedo-credibility to each other.

Rather than quote unreliable sources just report what you see and what you feel about what you see (or in this case what you don’t see – Yaya anywhere near a football) because most Blues blessed with more than a couple of brain cells are interested in the opinions of other fans who are willing to take the time and trouble to blog.

For what it’s worth I’d point out that it was Pep who made the decision to extend Yaya’s contract. Yaya could have taken a bigger wedge to go to China but wanted to stay. Yaya sometimes loses the drive and ambition to maintain his training and limit his diet, but when he re-focuses is usually pretty awesome.

He may be finished, in which case the gamble Pep took didn’t pay off, but I wouldn’t write him off just yet. I expect to see the big man back, at some stage, lean and fit and raring to play.

Mind you, I’m not often right :-)

Alph

]]> By: jac http://www.viewfromablue.com/2017/09/13/pep-guardiola-and-yaya-toure/#comment-869956 jac Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:59:15 +0000 http://www.viewfromablue.com/?p=11674#comment-869956 Pep said it was for sporting reasons, that's all. So the story is pure specubollox, there is nothing wrong with Yaya,s legs either. He is still twice as good as Delph who had minutes in Holland last night. Pep said it was for sporting reasons, that’s all. So the story is pure specubollox, there is nothing wrong with Yaya,s legs either. He is still twice as good as Delph who had minutes in Holland last night.

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