Yaya Toure casts doubt on his Man City future

Yaya Toure has revealed is ready to quit Manchester City this summer insisting: ‘I won’t stay where I’m not wanted.’

The much-maligned Ivory Coast midfielder, 31, said: “No amount of wages will make me stay at a club if I feel that I no longer belong there or if no challenge exists for me.”

Toure insisted he is fed up of being made the scapegoat for the club’s shambolic title defence and failings in Europe.

The £220,000-a-week star has been tipped to be sacrificed in the club’s end-of-season claret along with the likes of Samir Nasri and Jesus Navas.

But Toure added: “When things are not necessarily going well in a club, the key players take the fall. I am not the only one to have been attacked even if there is tendency to be harsher with me.

“Football is my passion, my job and that gives me two good reasons to do as well as I can.

“I accept criticism if it helps me to improve and I ignore them when their aim is simply to break me.

“Since I started playing football, I had a dream as a little boy. Today, I am living the dream of thousands of little boys. I represent my continent, Africa, and that has no price.”

Inter Milan boss Roberto Mancini, who worked with Toure at the Etihad, is desperately keen on a reunion but Toure has admitted he is also interested in the challenge posed by Paris Saints Germain.

He went on: “Mancini is a mentor for me, he is a special coach. It is no secret that I loved the time when he was boss here, like I love playing for City today.

“But as I said earlier, I have arrived at the point where I am more interested in the sporting challenge a club has to offer me than anything else.”

On Paris Saint-Germain's reported interest, he added: “PSG is a great club who, I think, is not finished growing and also a big club where any great player can find a place for themselves and make a contribution.”

“When I arrived at City, Pellegrini was not the coach. Just like the players, managers arrive and leave.

“As I have said before, I owe it to the City fans to fight just until the end of my career at this club, just as much as I owe it to myself and my continent. My decisions will not be affected by changes in management, but more by the challenges that will be offered to me.”

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