Thread: Fergie plots Toure move

I already had a rant figured out on how kolo toure wouldnt even start for us.

As for yaya, yeah we definately need someone like him. Didnt he sign a new contract recently though?

He is very good and can be used as DM if we really need to. One thing to bare in mind is african cup of nations is january, we will have him out for all of that and he will come back fairly battered, tired and bruised.

Having said that, best DM around imo is mascherano, not that liverpool would ever sell him to us but lets hope javier is as unloyal as his friend

I think there is no chance of this happening to be honest. He just signed a new deal.

The only way this would happen is if Mascherano went to Barca and we loaned him, an option I am perfectly comfortable with.

He is a good palyer and the sort we need, but there are much better.

I love when old rumours show themselves again months later.

Here is the perfect example.

Toure, fully recovered from his time off (H1N1 flu) is ready and waiting to start one of Barca's biggest matches of the season (El Clasico against Real Madrid), and the coach doesn't start him. Instead he starts the younger and imo not as good Busquets.

Yaya is becoming fully disenchanted with seeing limited opportunities, even though Barca recently resigned him to a new deal.

If he becomes available in the January window, do you think United should make an offer? Especially if Hargo is still not ready to go?

Manchester United and Arsenal are reported to have been put on alert after Yaya Toure revealed he is ready to consider his future at Barcelona after being left on the bench yet again.

The Ivory Coast midfielder was clearly unhappy after seeing young Sergio Busquets employed in the defensive midfield role as he began game against Real Madrid as a substitute.

After penning a new deal in the summer to ward off interest from other clubs Toure thought that it was a sign he was a regular first team player, but this season has has only started four games.

"My situation is astonishing. I have to take a personal decision about all this," he told France Football after the win against Madrid.

"When a new contract is given to a player, particularly at a club like this, it makes no sense to then leave him on the bench all the time.

"I think that at my age a player is at his peak in physical and ability termns, but I do not have the chance to play at the moment.

"This situation is damaging. I am not a thirtysomething, I am still young (26).

"I need more minutes because I am not playing enough. But the coach is the one that has to decide if I play or not."

Toure was linked with Manchester City recently, but one of his representatives Dmitri Semak dismissed the idea that he would move to Eastlands when some of Europe's most successful clubs were interested.

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Problem is the fact that he has not long signed a new contract to me means that his fee will be rather inflated and im unsure if united or arsenal would be willing to pay that, so if he is unhappy expect him to be going to a club with lots of cash or merely just staying where he is.