Yaya Toure Air his Frustration for playing in English league, says lack of respect in England

 

Angry: Toure believes he deserves more recognition

Yaya Toure is not too happy with the way English fans are treating him...the soccer star said 'I scored 24 goals, 20 in Premier League (in 2014/14), and nobody mentioned it. No recognition, no trophy, nothing. You understand a bit by disgust'. Read full interview after the cut...

Yaya Toure admits he is disgusted and sickened at not getting the respect he feels he deserves in England. Midfielder Toure claims he hasn’t received enough recognition for inspiring Manchester City to two Premier League titles and FA Cup and Capital One Cup victories since his £24m move from Barcelona in 2010. 

The 32 year-old is so angered by his alleged mistreatment that he doesn’t want either of his sons involved in football.

Toure said: “I do not want them to have to go through everything that I have endured. It has hurt me.

“Studying for them - that’s what I told the missus. You know, everyone thinks I am happy: I have won titles, lots of money, but, no, I am not happy.”

“Here (in England), when it is bad, they stress it, when its good, they leave that in the dungeon. They have always used their little methods to annoy me, to alienate me.

“I often have the impression I am an inconvenience. A lot. Here, things are never said as they should be said.

“We should speak just as much about the positives as the negatives, no?

“Us, the Africans, when we do good work, we like to be recompensed for that, recognised. Because if we are recognised for our true value, we advance faster. That is what I believe.

“For several reasons. When I arrived at City, in 2010, a heard a lot of people say, here, that I was going to kill football!

“I was coming from Barcelona as a player who had not played a lot in the previous months, and they did not understand. The journalists were talking about my salary and saying that it was a disgrace.

“Despite the fact that I had just arrived at the club to help them to progress and to win titles. A lot of people, idiots, I have to say, mocked me when I said that.

“They asked what I, Yaya Touré, was going to change at City. And so, did you see what happened next? We won nearly everything.

“I did it, we did it, because I was not all alone of course, but nobody picked up on it again. In fact, it is recognition that I do not have that hurts me. It is a bit sickening.”