Yaya Touré on his complicated relationship with Pep Guardiola | BBC Sounds

Alongside Efan Ekoku and Gabriel Zakuani, Yaya Touré discusses his complicated relationship with Pep Guardiola, which started with Pep’s arrival at Barcelona in 2008 and ended with Yaya’s departure from Man City in 2018, with multiple trophies - and the odd disagreement - along the way.
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[@BobVance529]

Best midfielder in the world for 18 months - he was fantastic.

[@mashbilli]

If he was French or Brazilian U would have put him in the tiers of Viera and Zidane Prolly better than em

[@cityslacker6221]

@@mashbillino we wouldn’t. He only hit that level and maintained it for barely two years and that was it. He was phenomenal, but he wasn’t consistent enough to be an all time great.

[@ghettablkgffb]

​@@mashbillimaybe and that's a big maybe better than viera but definitely not Zidane tho

[@LHBH8]

@@mashbilliAfricans have wild football takes.

[@mashbilli]

@@ghettablkgffb zidane couldn’t defend Yaya more complete Guardiola had him at center back

[@wizardeejay]

Yaya carried City so many times, that's why he has a pitch even named after him at City's training ground. One of the greatest imo but a bit controversial but like he said he doesn't care...he always speaks the truth💙

[@thefacelessquestion3333]

I didn't know this, now I do and I am glad

[@Hum2a]

One of the best mids to ever play in the premier league, his prime no one could touch him

[@michaeljohnson-thiman4975]

Patrick Vieira

[@treyyg-rt5kz]

@@michaeljohnson-thiman4975toure was better than scholes/gerrard/lampard

[@user-uc6bl2yh5k]

Scholes says hi. He was the best MF for 18 months. Scholes was that for years

[@treyyg-rt5kz]

@@user-uc6bl2yh5k scholes was named in PFA team of season only twice in 18 years and won only 14 individual awards which is not good enough , he also never had more than 7 assists in a season

[@user-uc6bl2yh5k]

@@treyyg-rt5kz That's like saying Busquets was average because he didn't rack those assists up. Why didn't you talk about his goals? If you think that's the only way a MF can influence a game then you don't know football. Scholes played deep-lying, box 2 box, and often stood out in every game he played. Can't remember any other MF Xavi and Iniesta were told to study.

[@zacemmerson4034]

Criminally underrated.

[@kyedouglas482]

Not at all, literally everyone rates him?

[@nawa240]

Pep destroyed his career because he could have ended his career well but alas

[@anon86]

I see what you did there you racist

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

@@nawa240 how tf did Pep destroy his career?

[@n0273]

@@nawa240not really lol

[@Batemann1980]

We miss you yaya 💙💙💙💙

[@Boaabi]

I’m not

[@Kone347]

@@BoaabiWhy

[@jimbojimbo6873]

An absolute monster, for 2 years he was genuinely the best midfielder in the world

[@denisbute6205]

Its safe to say Guardiola is one of the greatest, but had difficult relationships with Eto(legend), Zlatan(legend, Yaya(legend), amongst others and all had skills and strong personalities.

[@eaganadams3314]

Pep is a racist and that is being nice

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

@@eaganadams3314 You people are hysterical. Thinking Pep is racist is the dumbest and randomest thing.

[@jackroro7381]

He doesn't like big personalities. he was bullied probably as player. Manuel Petit said something about him during their playing time in barcelona

[@themanwhosoldtheworld99]

@@eaganadams3314zlatan ain’t black..

[@ragnarok283]

@@eaganadams3314 great

[@FromTheHipp]

funny because when he was at barcelona i adored him. when he got to City, i knew he was going to be that guy because he was absolutely incredible at barcelona. its crazy because even after he left, whenever Messi would line up against him, he always give yaya a hug. Messi knew what he was to that team.

[@hafolahbi]

The title of the video didn't reflect in it. The complicated relationship was not explained

[@pertamakedua3771]

I will always enjoy the team managed by Pep.. Even so, tbh.. I'd never know how great you are if you didn't go out from pep's team.. For me you are one of the greatest premier league midfielders ever,.. And one of the most underrated players ever.

[@kvbvl7285]

I'm happy he hit his prime in the prem for the world to see.

[@egl8398]

Yaya is what Pogba wanted to be

[@alvarogonzalez3931]

What Pogba should have been. So talented

[@nazalamin1370]

Not only a magnificent footballer but also a fantastic personality. Mohamed Ali in boxing. Maradona & Yaya in football. Best wishes

[@kadirpaulo1089]

He was a great midfielder but that comment is WILD. hahahaha

[@sighfly2928]

Loool. Putting him next to Maradona is like putting Anthony Joshua next to Ali.

[@pedromzileni4925]

Legend 🙏🏾❤️ we love you so much my brother and thank you for your great service to the Premier League. You were simply the best!

[@NK-wf1gs]

The Man City Yaya was a ballon d'or player . If you didn't saw it you really missed something

[@Vargolis]

What a player. PL all timer/great imo

[@motivationalmovement7800]

We love you yaya one of the greatest african players. Thank you Yaya

[@Bjon10]

He started as a defender in the Champions League final 2009 against Manchester United, which we won, if only he stopped complaining all the time, as a football player you have to play wherever the coach needs you to, and that's the end of the story.

[@matteuspittmann2720]

Well he had a way better career since he left for city than he would’ve at Barca. As a professional you’re allowed to go where they’ll appreciate you

[@JO_Artificial]

If he didn't complain, he'd have a miserable defenders career in Barcelona.

[@georgemala4046]

It is no fair to the player to play them anywhere just because you are the coach

[@thefacelessquestion3333]

I remember those games where DeJong comes on and Yaya is unleashed in the forward positions...beast mode, untouchable and with enough finesse to bend a free kick up and into the top corner.

[@yao052]

I remember at the time thinking how strange it was for a guy who started a champion league final as a cb ( while normally playing as a cm) would go on to play as a attacking midfielder like Lampard did. But then it made sense when I saw him making runs , dribbles and scoring more goals, I thought why didn’t he play there sooner?

[@hugoleesong]

People are so quick to call Debruyne the best prem midfielder ever and he's definitely up there. But I'd argue Yaya offered more threats than Debruyne, at least arguably. Debruyne might be a better passer than him. But Yaya could go past people like a world class winger, keep the ball under pressure as well as anyone, score from long range like Gerrard, and bully other midfielders like Viera. This guy is the epitome of criminally underrated.

[@bestlions]

Great box to box midfielder, very complete like Gerrard, Ballack, Veron, heck even Gullit. But when you're at Barcelona, Guardiola was right to use Xavi and Iniesta. They were miles ahead of every midfielder bar Pirlo and Scholes.

[@G4MBIT]

they were better than Pirlo and Scholes too.

[@bestlions]

@@G4MBIT they are different players. Scholes Pirlo and Xavi are "regista's", while Iniesta is a central midfielder with an offensive flair and style such as Seedorf Modric, Cesc or Nedved. As a regista Pirlo was better than Xavi in my opinion. He was worldclass at Milan, Juve and with Italy. Pirlo didn't need a system, he was the system. Xavi before Pep, and especially his link with Iniesta, was not worldclass at 29 years old. In spain he was sometimes criticised called the windshield wiper. For me, Xavi needed a system, and Iniesta at Barcelona and the national team.

[@tobia.1281]

Zidane / Nedved 👀

[@usmanelebute.a5866]

Maybe pirlo, Not scholes

[@yxngkillua7700]

@@usmanelebute.a5866scholes is not even as good as Gerrard or Lampard

[@snookerstones]

A proper city legend. Love the bloke!!

[@bolajiaiyegboyin3579]

I still think he is city greatest player till date..

[@eugeneagomna6056]

A legend of the club...surprised how Silva and Aguero are being eulogized more than this guy

[@madeinengland9488]

Silva is our greatest ever player and Sergio is just Sergio 🤷‍♂️

[@cosmic_chaos28]

@@madeinengland9488 without yaya man city and Silva ain’t shyt just like without gardiola Silva wouldn’t have won all that trophy

[@infintelyevolving4937]

I agree. I personally feel that the only city player that you can say is better than Yaya Toure is KDB. Yaya Toure was unstoppable in his prime; an absolute unit that could take it from one end of the pitch to the other.

[@cosmic_chaos28]

@@infintelyevolving4937 as much as I might want to agree with you, as much as great kdb is with the ball, on the ball there are still something’s yaya toure can do with the ball some pin point passes and I mean a lil few passes I don’t see kdb executing! Yaya is a rare beast u just don’t understand! He was mentored by Rivaldo

[@smoothkay2724]

And he did exactly that,the catalyst for our success..King#42

[@thefirstsupermayne3136]

Yaya we as City fans miss you very much

[@peterabnormal327]

What a player and deserve to be in epl hall of fame.. Saf even mention him in his first book on how to stop him.. boy Yaya could play and take a free kick

[@vector_vector__]

We appreciate U 🙏 thanks for everything u did for us all those amazing Freekicks long shot gaols 😘💙💙💙

[@treyyg-rt5kz]

One of the most underrated players in history of PL, way better than lampard/scholes/gerrard ever was

[@martinarthur8928]

Naaah....Shcoles was the G.O.A.T

[@treyyg-rt5kz]

@@martinarthur8928 scholes was benched in big games, had poor g/a stats

[@joshfewtrell7109]

@@treyyg-rt5kzstats aren’t everything modric has less than 70 assists in his whole career and he’s a ballondor winner

[@treyyg-rt5kz]

@@joshfewtrell7109 modric turns up in big games for club and country which scholes failed to do

[@joshfewtrell7109]

@@treyyg-rt5kz for country I’ll give you that

[@tarek7866]

He is considered a top player but still underrated. That guy could do anything.

[@giasargiousoufakis9800]

yayanese at its finest. Greatest City midfielder always liked him since he played for my boyhood club Olympiacos

[@willdawson1980]

City fans still sing about him now. Nuff said.

[@anashassnn]

Best midfielder to ever play the game.

[@mashbilli]

If he was French or Brazilian U would have put him in the tiers of Viera and Zidane Prolly better than em

[@yabannamba7678]

they are world champions. Toure hasnt even won afcon

[@GobbettTheGamer]

@@yabannamba7678toure isn’t his nation

[@yabannamba7678]

Zidane literally won them the trophy. Just a different class @@GobbettTheGamer

[@GobbettTheGamer]

@@yabannamba7678 so none of the other french players scored assisted or made saves?

[@yabannamba7678]

@@GobbettTheGamer it still shows zidane is just a galactico and toure just isnt

[@TSss-mr2zg]

It’s not personal pep does this with all the players

[@prestozer]

Those days Fergie was not recruiting good players. Him and the Glazers lied to fans about quality in the market (Yet other teams signed Yaya, Silva, Aguero, Benzema, Ozil, Hazard etc) Imagine if they'd gone for any of these players instead of Valencia, Obertan, Bebe and the likes

[@droppedmycap1594]

Guardiola used to give goalscoring tips to " Samuel Eto" 💀

[@Jay-op4dv]

legendary player ❤

[@milindmatang]

One of the best ever to play in PL

[@alexflores2567]

Mad respect for Yaya toure

[@user-xm6ro1ep5d]

Yaya, Eto'o, Zlatan, Cancelo, Hleb, Fabregas, Etc... The man is poison

[@Modus07]

Yaya, Yaya, Yaya, Yaya, Yaya, Yaya, Yaya Touré!

[@olugbengaremi3561]

Down to heart Yaya

[@Emblue11]

What a Legend Yaya Touré 😎✨⚽👑 Guardiola never deserved a brilliant player like you

[@bobstar6837]

He was mustard, what a player!

[@miguetrujillotubuenamigo]

GRANDÍSIMO Toure Yaya 👏🏽

[@nwokohlucky5239]

The great Yaya Toure 🔥

[@mahmetziad3607]

Him,silva,aguero and Vinny will forever be big part of the city's history

[@amstrong1624]

Pep have something for Africans but good on him. We love you Yahya

[@cliffdewind1389]

You want play higher on the pitch with Xavi and Iniesta in front of you😂😂

[@kontomylitis]

100 years and he'd still be asked this question. Controversy sells

[@TheDiegoo17]

If you actually deep it youu can understand why he thinks Pep has it out for him. At Barcelona he was even playing as a cb. As soon as he goes City he gets freedom to show his complete game. As soon as Pep comes City he minimises his role again

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

He only played as a CB in the final because of squad suspensions/injuries.

[@TheDiegoo17]

@vespasiancloscan7077 the biggest game of his career agajnst a on fire united team with Cristiano ronaldo, he played at CB that's how great he is.

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

@@TheDiegoo17 agreed, but then why pretend there was a pattern of Pep playing him out of position? He played him as a CDM because Xavi and Iniesta were simply better CMs, and he played him as a CB once because Alves was suspended so Puyol had to be the RB.

[@cosmic_chaos28]

@@vespasiancloscan7077 xavi and iniesta are not on yaya toure level they are just Spanish playing in a Spanish league so that position automatically became theirs not because they were better than yaya

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

@@cosmic_chaos28 😂ok

[@charlesmbiadjue6737]

Midfield Maestro

[@crazylizard1889]

I'm too young to have watched him properly. Was he better than David Silva?

[@namer6914]

He was in his mannny good days, A MOUNTSER, UNPLAYABLE MOUNTSER.

[@thebbiddim882]

One of the best box to box midfielders in the world in his prime. Different role than Silva. Silva was amazing too.

[@tomhickson8313]

Never got to the bottom of the birthday cake business ???

[@alexrn416]

Different types of midfielders. Yaya's 2013-14 might be one of the best individual performances from a midfielder in prem history.

[@kelvanince4626]

Remember when Toure signed for Man City from Barcelona when City were nowhere and Barca were the best team in the World... and he tried to say his move was "nothing to do with the money" even though his wage was like 200k a week 😂 Mate, just be honest. It was only about the money.

[@lutaayam]

Wenger turned this guy down. These managers are not much better than us. They’re very lucky

[@alwaysbrillant10]

Too short

[@SbongamandlaMaphumulo]

What a player! But birthdaygate was embarrassing.

[@benbeckmann6703]

Nice to see nzakuani!

[@Peggyg13]

Jude Bellingham style is Simla to how yaya you’re played under mancini

[@djamaltanko5121]

One of africas most wanted ❤

[@iv9449]

Bro, it's Xavi and Iniesta

[@happydays5218]

Yaya gave a politician's answer

[@amrasfour1718]

For sure better than busquets . For sure coachable . Pep can be the goat but he got it all wrong with the amazing yaya.

[@RobespierreChelsea]

Magnificent player!

[@deomidiji]

You simply don't wanna listen to instructions...

[@TheAsso233]

There are many players don't follow the mangers orders

[@joebolt1787]

My 🐐

[@alobaidibaghdad]

Yaya blue 💙

[@chiluchise652]

Legend

[@DjDugiUK]

Midfield BOSS

[@benedictchinweuba5820]

The curse didn't work 😂

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

Pick any player you can think of him, clone him until you have a team and watch them get smashed by 11 Yayas

[@reponsedushimimana7297]

I Wish he was under Jose Morihno

[@anujthakur4443]

💙💙💙

[@dindon23cata]

Pep is goat .. 🙌🏻

[@Rdon_Ranger]

Unplayable at times

[@vitorhugodjatamalinke7854]

❤️❤️❤️🤴🏿

[@brothercaleb]

Yaya, how about the cake incident. What happened 😂

[@cliffdewind1389]

Yaya is not a no.10, Pep was right.

[@elingrome5853]

Bro just wanted some cake...

[@victor_amata]

You are still on this matter? Move on!

[@Karlzeroual]

all that " I wanted PL" " I wanted to leave for a new challenge" blablablablabla said just to hide the pain of being replaced by the genius BUSQUETS.

[@zack7438]

Etoo, Zlatan, Toure, all legendary players that Guardiola has annoyed😅....notice how few players say anything bad about Mourinho

[@koinutachi]

And yet, it is Pep who is collecting titles. I would rather have the players annoyed.

[@brandonmasters8996]

I suppose what really complicated the relationship was the false accusation of Pep being racist. Hey ho

[@dre7413]

And you know it to be false how??

[@brandonmasters8996]

​​​@@dre7413Because Toure apologised for doing so. This right here is the problem with false accusation......people believe it to be true.

[@OG-Macho]

@@brandonmasters8996ah and just because he apologised, does not mean it was false does it. With powerful & connected people you end up apologising sometimes for an easier life.

[@brandonmasters8996]

@@OG-Macho No he apologised and stated he had lied. How would an easier life be obtained in this circumstance? "This one was wrong. I want to apologise for what happened. I want to apologise for doing something wrong." YaYa Toure April 2021

[@jdaking7648]

​@@brandonmasters8996is yaya the only one that has raised those accusations about Pep?

[@PCMT]

The trend of African players leaving when pep comes in is something to talk about. Yaya and Eto were it top form before him.

[@A...A09888]

Pep is racist to wards african i hate him Yaya toure benatia Eto mehrez keita...

[@Joeonline26]

You're inventing things that don't exist. If Pep thinks they're not good enough at the time, then they're moved on. Nothing to do with country or race

[@kindness765]

​@@A...A09888Deluded 😂..

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

@@A...A09888wtf did Pep do to Keita or Mahrez?

[@vespasiancloscan7077]

Yaya had a further 47 appearences after Pep went to City and left as a 35 year old, what are you talking about?

[@Thepenaltyboxfootball]

I wanna hear about the Champions league juju he put on Pep 🤣

[@marioiglesias4850]

Busquets was so good he just pushed him out of the team, simple as that

[@Vaedik43]

Yaya yaya yaya yaya yaya yaya toure

[@alexdavis9243]

He’s almost impossible to understand 😂

[@abijosegun7246]

We all know Guardiola is ….

[@kibipennelli]

terrible speaker imo

[@mradiification]

Pep is a racist he has so much hate on black footballers

[@ragnarok283]

Great

[@jhonniotkrs]

that African pride will be be your downfall my guy you could have been even better than what you were if you just look at what pep turned his midfielders

[@tjfootball1908]

Pep doesn't just like the guy...... Nothing to do with African pride.... Quit defending a racist

[@G.G.C.]

Nonsense. He should have accepted being a reserve? Smh.

[@IThankGod5]

Pep always have a probley with the African players And the last one is mahrez , the player give everything to the club and look last year almost no match in the championsleague I think pep inside so racist with black African players !

[@kshitijshrey]

You're Wrong. Grow Up.

[@crazylizard1889]

Yes, Mahrez: the famous BLACK player.

[@Crazytwist007]

Pep has problems with lots of players because it's his way or the highway. Jao Cancelo, Zlatan, ...

[@serioussam2071]

@@Crazytwist007 Both examples you gave are the players having excessive ego and temper against the Manager. Both of these players didn't understand that Manager is the boss and he is held accountable for team. Zlatan created his own narrative and refused to play as the Manager asked. Look at him played till 40 won leagues everywhere but never won the Champions League. So pep was right in siding with messi and leaving the problematic player out. Cancelo is another case. How many clubs has cancelo changed now? He never stays at any club and he has attitude problem. Does not play as asked? Kept overlapping and playing as Left winger while leaving defence open and not letting Greilish to play his game. If he played this year , City would have won maybe only F.A cup. City will be selling him and every city fan want him out after training ground antics.

[@A...A09888]

Pep is racist to african players yaya Eto benatia keita mehrez .. i hate him

[@LauraGS564]

Dude whined because Pep did not play him as you wanted, no other reason.

[@makavellitheprince5256]

Guardiola seems a bit racist and Muslim hater from the onset. Plus he doesn’t like alpha men around him because he feels them overpowering his charisma/grip on the team

[@ragnarok283]

Great. I like him even more now.

[@joeykhan4703]

@@ragnarok283cry more racist bum