Yaya Toure Wants To Retire At Manchester City

Yaya Toure has claimed that he wants to
retire at Manchester City, despite the
uncertainty which continues to surround
his long-term future at the club.


The Ivorian’s current contract at the Etihad
expires this summer and unless an
extension is agreed in the coming
months, Toure could well have played his
last game for City in Sunday’s emphatic 5-0
defeat of Watford.



When he does eventually depart, Toure is
keen to say goodbye to supporters in the
same manner as Pablo Zabaleta, who bid
farewell to City following the club’s final
home game of the season last Wednesday.



“Football is strange. I want to say a proper
goodbye,” Toure said after the win at
Vicarage Road, which confirmed City’s
place in the group stages of next season’s
Champions League.



“I want to be honest with the fans
because those guys, for all the time I’ve
been playing, those fans have been so
special and the club has been good to
me.”



Toure also hopes that, despite his contract
situation, that day is a long time off and
he harbours a desire to only bring his City
career to an end once he is ready to retire
from playing football.


“I want to go on until the end and the
best way is going to be to stop playing
football with City,” he said.


“That would be the best way for me. To be
honest, to see me in another shirt would
be quite difficult but we’ll see. We don’t
know what’s going to happen in the
future but we’ll see.



“I’m capable of playing more. I need to be
honest, I’d love to play more but I just
want that when I finish I can finish at City.



That’s what I want but we will see.”