Let’s be honest, it’s totally understandable why he’s being mocked.
In 2016 he accused Africans of not caring about Africa because they didn’t award him African player of the year, despite him being awarded it the previous 4 years.
Yaya Touré: "I want to destroy the Pep myth" (France Football interview)
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In 2016 he accused Africans of not caring about Africa because they didn’t award him African player of the year, despite him being awarded it the previous 4 years.
Zlatan as well. Baldy hates Swedish players that are not actually of Swedish decent, he must be a supporter of the right wing party in Sweden.
He specifically says "I asked myself if it was because of my colour"
And he also says other African players thought the same at Barcelona.
People can't or don't want to read.
There’s also no place for people to throw accusations like that about without having any evidence or to further their own personal agenda. That’s just as damaging.
If he has evidence of it, then fine.
The fact that City have numerous black players is odd if he has those kinds of views.
If i recall correctly, their first bust up happened at a preseason practice where Eto'o did not like the fact that Guardiola was trying to correct his positioning and said something along the lines "He was an average midfielder as a player, he has no business lecturing me about attacking". He got off lightly for that in my opinion, I'd have personally kicked him out right on the spot.
Africans aren't a race. Pep has utilised lots of black players, so very unlikely a race issue. Maybe he just didn't like certain individuals, which happens. Yaya is a spent force and wasn't playing as there were better options ahead of him.
Don't want to port cold water on him claims but Pep is known to be ruthless and distant with players he feels are not in his plans. It's easy for some to take that personally and think he has a problem with their X or Y. I hope Toure has more to back up his claim because I think frivulous accusations of racism are dangerous.
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He kicked British lion Joe Hart out of City too. The man is a kaleidoscope of prejudice.
He probably hates Lion King as well...the bloody monster.
I heard that's why he intentionally went bald, out of protest against all maned beasts.
I think we now know who killed Harambe too.
And he was Pep's biggest arse licker until he left City. After Pep got him to apologize for his agent's comment. Pretty hypocritical.
Walker is half white half-jamaican, noot really african. It's interesting that Yahya used that word in particular, because its obvious Pep does not have an issue with black people or players otherwise why would he sign them and play them in his teams. So he used African possibly as a way to better word his accusation. It seems to me most of his falling outs were due to personality or professional falling's outs.
But this doesnt fit any narrative either, if it was simply 'because of my colour' why did Fernandinho and Sterling have such great seasons under Pep as key parts of his City team? Why did Cashiola bring in Mendy if he had something against coloured players? Surely he would be bringing Joe Hart back, that dood looks like he would turn lobster red seeing a picture of the sun on tv.
I know Africans aren't a race.
Given that it's Yaya Toure a notorious crybaby I'm going to call bollocks on this. I can't stand Pep but this is a guy that's cried at not getting a cake in his 30's, accused Africans of discriminating against their own because they voted for another African ahead of him and accused the league of racism because Suarez got the player of the year ahead of him after having one of the finest individual seasons in the PL era.
Honestly I wouldn't doubt what Yaya says. One thing is for sure Pep has a big ego and he strikes me as one who always want to have his way but will rarely ever show it.
Toure basically says that Pep has a messiah complex and that he needs acolytes and disciples. He then says that he will not entertain that kind of relationship with him or anyone. He describes the essence of their personality clash in the interview so the accusations of racism seem like a smear.
He confirms what I have long thought about Pep though, that he is a deeply deeply vain man trying to portray humility as a conscious decision for his image.
I bet than Zlatan and Eto'o fell foul of Pep for similar reasons.
He confirms what I have long thought about Pep though, that he is a deeply deeply vain man trying to portray humility as a conscious decision for his image.
I bet than Zlatan and Eto'o fell foul of Pep for similar reasons.
He once didn't like a white man isn't really how racism works.
Yaya Toure wouldn't consider himself the same race as Fernandinho or Sterling. That's a touchy subject but it's true. Toure will identify himself as a "Black African" he will take absolute pride in that.
Toure may or may not be correct in what he says about Guardiola, but nobody ought to be basing their argument on the idea that it's not possible to be racist against Africans. It's a ridiculous point of view.
Smell a lawsuit brewing from Pep's camp. That's a strong thing to level at someone.
I don't think that's what he is saying, rather he is saying that Africa is made up of different races or at the very least consider themselves to be different from each other. That's how I saw it, he's not saying you can't be prejudiced towards people from Africa.
Yaya Toure out of all people.
Would be more interesting if any other more credible black player (he coached a lot of them) came out with the news.
Would be more interesting if any other more credible black player (he coached a lot of them) came out with the news.
Did Toure really say something so ridiculous?
Didn't he make the same complaint when it came to the PFA awards as well as the debacle around his birthday, because he is African 
Exactly.
I've been in the presence of people who have specifically targetted Black Africans in negative ways. I don't know what the geniuses on here would call it, whether it's their definition of "racism" but it is a problem and a very unpleasant one.
People reeling off Mixed heritage Brazillians as players he plays and the fact he didn't once like a white man called Joe Hart is just weird.
Same guy who wanted to leave and accused owners for not sending him a cake for his birthday?
This. I think he is fake. His true nature comes out when he's under pressure.
The sad part that the reacism bit will turn away from what the essence of the interview is.
That Pep is not a saint.
Just because people from Africa might see themselves as belonging to different peoples doesn't mean that someone can't have a racist stereotypes that group them together. That'd be like saying that there's no such thing as antisemitism because there are Sephardic Jews, Ethiopian Jews etc.
He was sold as part of a deal to bring in a better striker in Ibrahimovic. Nothing to do with his race.
So we should just mock him and take the piss out of him then?
It just doesn't sit well with me that to be honest.
Don't think they, or the public generally, will care about what Yaya says. He is a known cry baby and what hes saying has no basis at all, talks about his colour without realising Sterling, Walker, Delph, Sane have been City's main players this season.
Keita?
He's a tool who has a history of making idiotic accusations when things don't go his way.
That's not what I think or said?
It sounded as though you were defending the idea that you couldn't be racist against African people because you can make ethnic distinctions between people from Africa, but apologies if I misunderstood. That's definitely what Red-toad was saying.
Mahrez isn't going to City then.
You can be racist and still have black people working for you, though. That's been true since the dawn of modern civilisation.
His argument is that he didn't get playing time because Pep is racist.