Friday, December 5, 2025 - Manchester City and Ivory Coast icon, Yaya Toure has sensationally reopened his bitter feud with his former coach, Pep Guardiola, labelling the legendary manager a 'snake'.
Toure and Guardiola have had a strained relationship ever
since the ex-Barcelona manager offloaded the star midfielder to Manchester City
in 2010, shortly after elevating Sergio Busquets from the club’s B team.
Guardiola saw Busquets as a better fit in the holding
midfield role in his fabled 4-3-3 system. Toure completed 90 minutes on just
nine occasions in his final season at the Nou Camp, before enjoying a
glittering eight-year spell at the Etihad.
The pair met again in 2016 when Guardiola was recruited by
City's hierarchy and he once more relegated Toure to a bit-part role, leading
to the player's agent, Dimitri Seluk, speaking out publicly against the
coach.
Seluk later apologised for those comments, which did little
to encourage Guardiola to give Toure a second chance, and he left the club in
May 2018.
Now, Toure, 42, has reopened his bitter feud with
Guardiola.
Appearing on the ZACK YouTube channel, Toure
described his former coach as a 'snake'.
'I don't see a man, I see a snake,' he said.
'The Barcelona coach calls me back then and says, "You
have to come back, it's important." My wife says to me, "Are you
going to listen to that nonsense? He treated you like dirt, and now he wants
you to stay, and you're going to stay? Let's go to Manchester, my
brother".
'The guy didn't play me all year, and at the end of the
year, I shine at the World Cup (2010), and he brings me to Barcelona. My wife
would tell me about him. "Sheytan, he's not a man, he's wicked." She
sees him as a negative person.'
Toure enjoyed a glittering career with Barcelona and
Manchester City, winning three Premier Leagues, two LaLigas, a Champions
League, and five domestic cup trophies.
The midfielder was also named African Footballer of
the Year for four successive seasons from 2011 to 2014, winning the Africa Cup
on Nations in 2015.
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