Yaya Touré on his complicated relationship with Pep Guardiola

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

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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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@Hum2a 9 ай бұрын

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

@michaeljohnson-thiman4975 8 ай бұрын

Patrick Vieira

@treyyg-rt5kz 8 ай бұрын

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

@user-uc6bl2yh5k 8 ай бұрын

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

@treyyg-rt5kz 8 ай бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@BobVance529 9 ай бұрын

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

@mashbilli 9 ай бұрын

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

@cityslacker6221 9 ай бұрын

@@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 9 ай бұрын

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

@LHBH8 9 ай бұрын

@@mashbilliAfricans have wild football takes.

@mashbilli 9 ай бұрын

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

@zacemmerson4034 9 ай бұрын

Criminally underrated.

@kyedouglas482 9 ай бұрын

Not at all, literally everyone rates him?

@nawa240 8 ай бұрын

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

@anon86 8 ай бұрын

I see what you did there you racist

@vespasiancloscan7077 8 ай бұрын

@@nawa240 how tf did Pep destroy his career?

@n0273 8 ай бұрын

@@nawa240not really lol

@wiz3010 8 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@Batemann1980 9 ай бұрын

We miss you yaya 💙💙💙💙

@Boaabi 8 ай бұрын

I’m not

@jimbojimbo6873 8 ай бұрын

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

@denisbute6205 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

Pep is a racist and that is being nice

@vespasiancloscan7077 8 ай бұрын

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

@jackroro7381 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@eaganadams3314zlatan ain’t black..

@ragnarok283 8 ай бұрын

@@eaganadams3314 great

@snookerstones 9 ай бұрын

A proper city legend. Love the bloke!!

@nazalamin1370 8 ай бұрын

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

@kadirpaulo1089 8 ай бұрын

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

@sighfly2928 3 ай бұрын

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

@egl8398 8 ай бұрын

Yaya is what Pogba wanted to be

@alvarogonzalez3931 5 ай бұрын

What Pogba should have been. So talented

@Vargolis 9 ай бұрын

What a player. PL all timer/great imo

@kvbvl7285 8 ай бұрын

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

@pertamakedua3771 8 ай бұрын

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.

@hafolahbi 8 ай бұрын

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

@motivationalmovement7800 9 ай бұрын

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

@FromTheHipp 8 ай бұрын

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.

@pedromzileni4925 9 ай бұрын

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

@smoothkay2724 9 ай бұрын

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

@treyyg-rt5kz 8 ай бұрын

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

@martinarthur8928 8 ай бұрын

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

@treyyg-rt5kz 8 ай бұрын

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

@joshfewtrell7109 Ай бұрын

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

@treyyg-rt5kz Ай бұрын

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

@joshfewtrell7109 Ай бұрын

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

@NK-wf1gs 9 ай бұрын

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

@Bjon10 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@georgemala4046 26 күн бұрын

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

@Jay-op4dv 8 ай бұрын

legendary player ❤

@milindmatang 9 ай бұрын

One of the best ever to play in PL

@bolajiaiyegboyin3579 9 ай бұрын

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

@RobespierreChelsea 9 ай бұрын

Magnificent player!

@olugbengaremi3561 9 ай бұрын

Down to heart Yaya

@thefacelessquestion3333 6 ай бұрын

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.

@thefirstsupermayne3136 8 ай бұрын

Yaya we as City fans miss you very much

@eugeneagomna6056 8 ай бұрын

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

@madeinengland9488 8 ай бұрын

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

@Fifa23andchill28. 8 ай бұрын

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

@infintelyevolving4937 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Fifa23andchill28. 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@bestlions 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

they were better than Pirlo and Scholes too.

@bestlions 9 ай бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

Zidane / Nedved 👀

@usmanelebute.a5866 8 ай бұрын

Maybe pirlo, Not scholes

@yxngkillua7700 8 ай бұрын

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

@tarek7866 8 ай бұрын

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

@anashassnn 8 ай бұрын

Best midfielder to ever play the game.

@alexflores2567 8 ай бұрын

Mad respect for Yaya toure

@peterabnormal327 7 ай бұрын

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

@djamaltanko5121 8 ай бұрын

One of africas most wanted ❤

@nwokohlucky5239 8 ай бұрын

The great Yaya Toure 🔥

@bobstar6837 8 ай бұрын

He was mustard, what a player!

@chiluchise652 8 ай бұрын

Legend

@Modus07 8 ай бұрын

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

@giasargiousoufakis9800 2 ай бұрын

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

@kontomylitis 8 ай бұрын

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

@hugoleesong 7 ай бұрын

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.

@SbongamandlaMaphumulo 9 ай бұрын

What a player! But birthdaygate was embarrassing.

@happydays5218 8 ай бұрын

Yaya gave a politician's answer

@mahmetziad3607 8 ай бұрын

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

@alwaysbrillant10 9 ай бұрын

Too short

@droppedmycap1594 Ай бұрын

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

@amstrong1624 8 ай бұрын

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

@joebolt1787 9 ай бұрын

My 🐐

@miguetrujillotubuenamigo 24 күн бұрын

GRANDÍSIMO Toure Yaya 👏🏽

@alobaidibaghdad 9 ай бұрын

Yaya blue 💙

@benbeckmann6703 8 ай бұрын

Nice to see nzakuani!

@cliffdewind1389 8 ай бұрын

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

@TSss-mr2zg 8 ай бұрын

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

@willdawson1980 7 ай бұрын

City fans still sing about him now. Nuff said.

@iv9449 8 ай бұрын

Bro, it's Xavi and Iniesta

@anujthakur4443 9 ай бұрын

💙💙💙

@deomidiji 8 ай бұрын

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

@DjDugiUK 9 ай бұрын

Midfield BOSS

@Emblue11 8 ай бұрын

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

@crazylizard1889 9 ай бұрын

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

@namer6914 9 ай бұрын

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

@thebbiddim882 9 ай бұрын

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

@tomhickson8313 9 ай бұрын

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

@alexrn416 9 ай бұрын

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

@kelvanince4626 8 ай бұрын

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.

@charlesmbiadjue6737 8 ай бұрын

Midfield Maestro

@benedictchinweuba5820 9 ай бұрын

The curse didn't work 😂

@lutaayam 8 ай бұрын

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

@vitorhugodjatamalinke7854 8 ай бұрын

❤️❤️❤️🤴🏿

@amrasfour1718 7 ай бұрын

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

@Peggyg13 8 ай бұрын

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

@mashbilli 9 ай бұрын

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

@yabannamba7678 9 ай бұрын

they are world champions. Toure hasnt even won afcon

@GobbettTheGamer 9 ай бұрын

@@yabannamba7678toure isn’t his nation

@yabannamba7678 9 ай бұрын

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

@GobbettTheGamer 9 ай бұрын

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

@yabannamba7678 9 ай бұрын

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

@Thepenaltyboxfootball 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheAsso233 9 ай бұрын

There are many players don't follow the mangers orders

@user-xm6ro1ep5d Ай бұрын

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

@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights 7 ай бұрын

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

@TheDiegoo17 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@TheDiegoo17 8 ай бұрын

@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 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Fifa23andchill28. 8 ай бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

@@Fifa23andchill28. 😂ok

@dindon23cata 9 ай бұрын

Pep is goat .. 🙌🏻

@brothercaleb 8 ай бұрын

Yaya, how about the cake incident. What happened 😂

@Rdon_Ranger 7 ай бұрын

Unplayable at times

@reponsedushimimana7297 8 ай бұрын

I Wish he was under Jose Morihno

@elingrome5853 9 ай бұрын

Bro just wanted some cake...

@zack7438 8 ай бұрын

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

@koinutachi 7 ай бұрын

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

@Vaedik43 9 ай бұрын

Yaya yaya yaya yaya yaya yaya toure

@PCMT 9 ай бұрын

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

@Amn09888 9 ай бұрын

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

@manlikeJoe1010 9 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@Amn09888Deluded 😂..

@vespasiancloscan7077 8 ай бұрын

@@Amn09888wtf did Pep do to Keita or Mahrez?

@vespasiancloscan7077 8 ай бұрын

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

@victor_amata 8 ай бұрын

You are still on this matter? Move on!

@alexdavis9243 9 ай бұрын

He’s almost impossible to understand 😂

@cliffdewind1389 8 ай бұрын

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

@marioiglesias4850 8 ай бұрын

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

@abijosegun7246 9 ай бұрын

We all know Guardiola is ….

@Karlzeroual 8 ай бұрын

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.

@brandonmasters8996 9 ай бұрын

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

@dre7413 9 ай бұрын

And you know it to be false how??

@brandonmasters8996 9 ай бұрын

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

@jermaine8737 8 ай бұрын

@@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 8 ай бұрын

@@jermaine8737 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

@joshdaking7648 8 ай бұрын

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

@kibipennelli 8 ай бұрын

terrible speaker imo

@jhonniotkrs 9 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@G.G.C. 8 ай бұрын

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

@mradiification 8 ай бұрын

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

@ragnarok283 8 ай бұрын

Great

@IThankGod5 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

You're Wrong. Grow Up.

@crazylizard1889 9 ай бұрын

Yes, Mahrez: the famous BLACK player.

@Crazytwist007 9 ай бұрын

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

@serioussam2071 9 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Amn09888 9 ай бұрын

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

@LauraGS564 9 ай бұрын

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

@makavellitheprince5256 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

Great. I like him even more now.

@joeykhan4703 8 ай бұрын

@@ragnarok283cry more racist bum