Pep Guardiola say Yaya Toure won't play for Man City again until agent apologises to him

Football: Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola has said former Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure will not play for Manchester City again until he receives an apology for comments made by his agent Dimitri Seluk.


Guardiola is not happy about comments made by Dimitri Seluk, who said he was "humiliating a great player" by not playing him.

Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Guardiola said; 

"It was so difficult for me to put him out in the Champions League -- so difficult,"

"I know him, I know he's a good guy, but it was difficult for me as well to put Aleix Garcia out, they are the only two players that are out, because the list is the list.

"But the day after his manager spoke -in that moment - Yaya is out.

''Until Mr. Dmitri Seluk comes back in the press conference, or his friends in the media, he has the courage to call me, go to the media and say an apology to Manchester City, the first one, the second one is his teammates and after the trainer'' Pep said.

"When that happens Yaya will be part of the group and he will have the same chance to play all the games. Because I cannot accept as a coach, every manager when his player doesn't play goes to the media and speak and speak and speak. It depends."

Toure's agent Seluk later on Tuesday declined to apologise to Pep telling Sky Sports News that "I can say whatever I like and Guardiola can't stop me."

Yaya Toure, 33 who retired from international football on Tuesday was left out of Guardiola's Champions League squad and has only made one appearance for City this season in the Champions League playoff second leg against Steaua Bucharest and since then has not featured in the matchday squad for any of City's last seven fixtures.

"I know how Dmitri Seluk loves Yaya Toure, if he loves me, show me and make an apology to Manchester City for what he did in the media," Pep sadi.

"I cannot imagine in my period when I was a football player, my manager going to the media and speaking against Johan Cruyff, about this and about that.

"Maybe it's a new era now, the new period changing, but I'm an old guy. I am old generation, and old generation managers has to make his players his job and trainers his job, and today the managers believe they are more than they are.

"If he has a problem call director of football Txiki Begiristain, the club, and they can talk, until he doesn't speak, Yaya is not going to play."

Seluk in an interview with the UK Mirror in Septmeber said;

"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."