Recently, Yaya Toure's agent was interviewed by Sport24 and officially released a statement on Twitter saying that Yaya Toure is about to end his professional career. After retiring, the Ivorian will receive professional coaching training and pursue a career as a football coach, and his first goal of coaching will be a Russian team.
I'm sure and sure that if Yaya Toure chooses to retire, it will definitely have a lot to do with his agent. Because of the agent's "mouth", the relationship between Toure and Manchester City coach Guardiola became worse and worse, and eventually Toure was excluded from the tactical system by Guardiola. To be precise, after leaving Manchester City, Yaya Toure's top flight career is basically over.
I still remember that in the 2011 FA Cup semi-finals, manchester city and manpower competed, it was Yaya Toure's winning goal that helped Manchester City beat Manchester United 1-0, and in the final, It was Toure who stepped forward and scored a goal to help Manchester City win the championship. In the 37th round of the Premier League in 2012-13, Manchester City just surpassed Manchester United in points, and it was Yaya Toure who helped the team win 2-0 against Newcastle. In the 2014 League Cup, Manchester City, who are 0-1 behind Sunderland, are about to stage the tragedy of last season's final loss to Wigan, or Yaya Toure stepped forward at a critical moment to turn things around.
At his peak, Yaya Toure was simply a football "monster", a hexagonal all-round warrior (also called a top b2b midfielder), with excellent physical fitness, skilled foot skills, and a powerful long-range shooting ability that often shocked four. When City need to attack, Yaya Toure can go up to the front or even the center; when the Blue Moon Needs to defend, the Ivorian can go to the back, or even the center back. As long as Toure is on the pitch, he is a huge threat; as long as Yaya Toure is there, the manager has a variety of tactical options.
In 8 years, Yaya Toure has won 3 Premier League titles, 3 League Cups and 1 FA Cup. At the Blue Moon, Yaya Toure and Aguero, David Silva, Kompany and Joe Hart formed an invincible central axis that allowed City to rise strongly.
However, with Guardiola taking up manchester City's coaching whip in 2016, the "old" Ivorian is no longer the ideal candidate in Guardiola's tactical system, even in Barcelona, the young Toure is still not in guardiola's eyes, let alone in this twilight year.
Today's Yaya Toure with age, the rhythm on the pitch began to slow down, the impact, frequency of movement, turning speed are not as good as before, injuries have begun to gradually increase, if in the top league is targeted to watch, Toure simply can not play his role.
In fact, if Yaya Toure still wants to play football, he still has a stage to play residual heat, such as the United States Major League, the Turkish Super League and the Chinese Super League and other leagues are good choices. I think the reason For Toure chose to retire was not only because he wanted to be a football coach, but also because this agent had ruined his reputation and any team might have to think carefully before signing him.
But no matter what Toure chooses, I still wish him well and thank him for his dedication and contribution to Barca and Manchester City. From Barca to Manchester City, let fans around the world know that as long as they have the ability, coupled with their own unremitting efforts, professional players can also achieve "mountains and rivers and doubts, willows and flowers and bright villages". Now that Toure has chosen to be a football coach, I believe he can also become a world-class coach.