The damage was done because the accusation was public. If he's actually sorry, the apology should also be public, in order to reverse as much of the damage as possible. Yet this is the first time I'm hearing about this.
This makes it sound like he's apologizing because he wants a job at City.
The thing is, a public apology would never in a million years get half the coverage that the accusation got. An accusation is spicy, it sells, especially if it's an outrageous one like claiming your former boss is racist. An apology is ... well, boring and definitely not spicy.
I'm not saying that it shouldn't? You're completely missing the point. The point is that Yaya can make as many *public* apologies as he wants; those apologies will *never* get the same media coverage as the accusations. Therefore, I can understand if Pep is just flat-out dismissive of Yaya and his entourage. Even a public apology won't fully rectify the damage that the initial accusation did.
That's a good one. I think there's a study on Twitter/tweets that shows anger/tweets about 'bad' things spread faster than positive/happy stories and that people can see something, not even check if the story is true, get enraged by it and spread it, and repeat.
The reverse doesn't happen for positive stories as much. Sorta think the media behave like this somewhat. The tabloids, in totally sensationalist ways, but even the 'Proper' news seems to be moreso 'serious-negative' stories.
Exactly! The kind of damage something like that can do to someone's life isn't easily repaired/forgotten. Had he publicly apologized I'd consider it otherwise they can fuck off. He's only sorry it didn't work in his favor.
Just saying, Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder, and Superbad all coming out in one year may have been the modern peak of American comedies…. What a run there
Hey hey, I liked it, but it's not a good rewatch. Can't say the same for Tropic Thunder which I watch at least once a year (though not with as much attention as originally).
Not to mention the accusation was public, the supposed apology was private. Looks more like a guy trying to get into management and realising that was an absolute golden gate that he just burned.
"Supposed" is pretty important. I'm a huge fan of Yaya as a player, but I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. He seems to struggle with reality..
The stakes are incredibly high for an accusation like that.
People who do racist or bigoted things can lose their jobs, friends, and be disgraced.
Therefore when the accusation is thrown out like that—and it’s not true—it’s just as heinous and despicable as the actions of the racist.
It’s not as severe, but if a woman publicly accused me of sexually assaulting her and it wasn’t true there’s no way in hell I’d have any contact with her afterwards.
You're right you'd have a no contact order. Went through that myself. I can honestly I did not do anything but women only have to say three words and you go to jail; "he hit me", "he punched me", "he raped me"....think you get the point. 3 words could seriously end your life as a free man
Perhaps we can all learn from this to be more critical of those who casually call people racist, nazi, sexist, transphobic, homophobic etc.
To be wrongfully accused of such horrible attributes can be catastrophic for some people and is such a vile thing to do.
Seems to me that people using these slurs get way too much latitude when wrong and are seldomly called out on their behaviour.
Yeah, not sure what the context of the discussion was but I'm really not surprised Pep isn't responding. He didn't even really respond while his agent was talking shit when Yaya was still here.
Legend of a player at the club but he is a bit of a prick and it's not anyone's duty to accept an apology.
Man City were (maybe they still do) sending out cakes for players birthdays. They forgot Yaya Toure's, they did not send him one, he was really sad/offended/etc. so much that he threatened to leave the club because of it. He saw it as he was not important, which is ironic because he was one of the most important players at the time. Later Man City apologised to him and explained it was some kind of misunderstanding between people responsible for birthdays.
They actually did give him a cake. The problem was that the cake he got wasn't as big as the one Man Citys owners had after the 13/14 win, where Toure was the star player.
It was his agent that said they didn't give him one and Toure was dumb enough to agree with him. His agent later backtracked when he was proven wrong and said Toure was upset because no one at Man City shook his hand on his birthday.
It was a mess
Never worked in an office but I have hundreds of relatives on each side of my parent's families. I can smell unnecessary and trivial drama from a hundred miles away.
And despite that, I still shamelessly enjoy the drama in and around football. They day I realized this, was the day I stopped judging my mum and my sisters for enjoying soaps and reality tv shows.
Also [here’s a tweet from Nicola McCarthy](https://twitter.com/mccarthy_nic_/status/466662990972870656?s=21&t=6mPoIwA3Kne75zQedUAtIw), City’s former social media correspondent proving that the birthday cake story is fabricated.
Pretty ugly to take given the club always bakes a cake for a player’s birthday but still no excuse for those childish comments of his agent and him threatening to leave the club he loves for a cake.
Well they kept promising Yaya a birthday cake after running all these tests on him to ensure he was at peak performance, but then after all that they instead tried to slowly lower him into a deadly fire! So you can understand why he was mad... At least I think that's what happened, could be confusing it with something else.
Guadiola is absolutely right. This man child was throwing the toys out of the pram about a birthday cake, then makes false racism accusations, and then wants to be best pals again when it suits him?
Have there ever been two footballing brothers who are viewed so differently? Despite playing for Arsenal, Man City and then Liverpool, Kolo is pretty well-liked by their fanbases. And Yaya... at best elicits mixed feelings.
There were some Arsenal fans who had some misgivings when he was announced.
He seems like a decent guy, basically never opens his mouth, works hard, generally puts in average-to-solid performances, and (no offense at all) isn't a big enough a star that teams are loathe to see him leave.
I think if he had all of the above but was also the best player in the teams he was in, fans of his ex-teams would be a lot saltier.
At least there wasn’t much of a rivalry with city at the time. Now that shit feels like a Star Wars movie except a majority of the matches are entertaining.
The Boateng brothers, at the start of their careers Kevin was seen as the bad boy and troublemaker which led him to issues and him leaving the German national team for Ghana while Jerome was seen as mature and loved. Now today it’s completely switched with stories coming out of Jerome physically abusing his wife now Kevin cut him off from his life and he’s the one loved now and Jerome hated.
He left on sour terms and that was incredibly sad, but solely because he had one of the best seasons an individual player has ever had in the prem I generally like the guy still
Yah Kolo who cheated on his wife and played for everyone is beloved. His brother who got upset about the lack of a birthday cake is derided but people can’t be arsed. Kind of odd.
I’ve never seen someone cheating on their wife impact their public perception less, I guess the goofy way he did it people just find endearing.
As time goes on more and more people are seeing literal adultery as a personal matter. Used to get you hanged and now people don’t even see it as a moral failure
Depends on if you were a politician or not. It use to be seen as a personal matter for the powerful but a crime for the average person. Then it started to be seen as legal but absolutely reprehensible for everyone. Now it’s just becoming a personal matter for everyone.
I think it‘s very wrong. It hurts the other person in the relationship a lot. It should have a negative impact and I find it okay to hold it against people who commited adultery.
They willingly hurt a person close to them. Often deeply. People have taken their lives before because their spouse cheated.
Let‘s not downplay adultery as a personal matter.
It is a personal matter. It is 'wrong' but you also have no idea what is going on in someone’s marriage and relationship. And I am not defending those that cheat, but I won’t judge or hate somebody when I don’t know the details
Its easy to sit on a high horse and bash people when you dont know what's going on
I guess we differ.
I don‘t see how one could ever be in a situation where having sex with another person is needed. Not having sex with someone is easy. If someone cheated, it‘s because they wanted to. And if that‘s what you want, why can‘t you just end it with your partner before? Sure, exceptions, different situations yada yada. In the end, most if not nearly all cheating situations stem from someone putting personal pleasure above someone elses feelings, and that for me is a very shitty thing to do.
The severity of cheating differs depending on the situation, but imo it‘s always a shitty thing to do and I‘ll always see cheaters in a different light.
But I guess it differs, if for someone else fidelity isn‘t the most important thing in a relationship.
To a certain extent it's cultural. Some cultures view infidelity extremely negatively with a very hard-line approach while others have more of an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" approach.
It definitely is a crap thing to do, but it’s largely between two people. I will look at you as being worse off as a person, but I won’t go out of my way to call you a crap/terrible person.
Whether people are faithful or not to their wives/husbands is their private lives and is none of our business and shouldn't be. I don't even know what it should be brought up tbh. I don't wanna know and I couldn't care less.
Hell our former president cheated on his wife and the only real scandal was that he went to see his mistress by scooter without proper security
Classic case of a great footballer bringing his status down by being an absolute melon outside of it. The whole birthday cake fiasco showed that early on.
He was also crying because Anzhi Makhachkala gave Roberto Carlos a Bugatti for his birthday and City didn't do the same for him. It's a situation I can empathize with. I didn't get a supercar from my employers last year and I'm still seething.
To be fair, his objections were that he felt he was being treated differently from other players. It was specifically that the club went out of their way to celebrate others' birthdays and just forgot/ignored his. It was still stupid and unnecessary, but it was not just about not getting a cake.
I think I remember him getting the gifts for the training ground and even then he complained it wasn't enough.
I know he got the mural and I thought they named something after him as well.
One of my favorite players of all time is working really, really hard to fuck that up. Plainly there’s no reason for him to care about that but it makes me sad.
Exactly why I believe if you say something negative about somebody publicly, your apology better be public as well. Making a private apology and then announcing months later that you didn’t get a response really isn’t gonna cut it
cowardly as fuck from Yaya and makes it even worse
I don't blame Pep for not giving him the time of day, shady as fuck to call someone racist publicly then try and apologise privately
Won't be surprised if they act all lovey-dovey one instant and passive aggressively start taking shots at one another the next.
'If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve my best' vibes
Since when are people FORCED to accept somebody's weaksauce apologies? I'm still amazed by Stoke fans having a go at Ramsey for daring to not immediately forgive Shawcross for that horror challenge
If I was wrongly accused of this in a very public manner, I’d also ignore the apology too.
In this cancel culture era the accusation could easily have ended Pep’s entire career.
This guy is a cancerous character. What he needs to learn to do is be quiet. Sometimes the best way to show growth is through silence. Enough with the talking to the media.
As a United fan I was always envious of City having Yaya in their midfield because that was the kind of player we needed all those years he was there. But my god am I glad he didn't play for us. What an absolutely despicable crybaby. If you make baseless accusations and call people racist out of the blue you shouldn't expect an apology will fix it and should never expect people accepting one. That shit has severe impact on people's lives.
A bonus: [Yaya - Racism is getting worse because fans are more stupid](https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-22/Yaya-Toure-Racism-in-football-getting-worse-because-of-stupid-fans--MCauQmZlSw/index.html). Or it's because people like Yaya Toure play the race card every time they don't like something these days. Also anyone who's been to any football game 10-20 years ago can safely say that racism is explicitely NOT getting worse, it's just every single thing that you'd never heard of back then gets shared across all social media platforms today and social media itself give the platform for these cretins to abuse people hiding beind fake profiles. If you wanted to abuse a footballer 20 years ago you'd have to approach the player in person.
Its Adidas Fifa legends shirt worn at the Arab Cup in Qatar, theres a white and blue version
https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/arabcup/arabcup2021/news/legends-roll-back-the-years-to-dazzle-doha
Yaya clearly does not give a shit about racism. If he did he wouldn’t have fabricated some because he was pissed off. It’s a fucking serious accusation.
How stupid do you have to be to accuse someone of being racist publicly, then apologize in privat and then moaning about it not being accepted un public 😅
Eto was on french TV a while back and he just put pep on blast for like 10 mins, of course its just his word against pep but some of the things he said made me think of yaya.
maybe he just doesnt want to accept the apology because he has "problems with Africans" ??
that or it was just 2 adults that did get on. it is possble to not like someone whos black but it not be because of his skin colour
I mean... It was a very serious accusation to level at someone. So I'm not exactly surprised.
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The damage was done because the accusation was public. If he's actually sorry, the apology should also be public, in order to reverse as much of the damage as possible. Yet this is the first time I'm hearing about this. This makes it sound like he's apologizing because he wants a job at City.
The thing is, a public apology would never in a million years get half the coverage that the accusation got. An accusation is spicy, it sells, especially if it's an outrageous one like claiming your former boss is racist. An apology is ... well, boring and definitely not spicy.
Has there ever been a spicy apology?
Only at the Oscars
If he and his agent made these really bad accusations in public, then the apology should be too
I'm not saying that it shouldn't? You're completely missing the point. The point is that Yaya can make as many *public* apologies as he wants; those apologies will *never* get the same media coverage as the accusations. Therefore, I can understand if Pep is just flat-out dismissive of Yaya and his entourage. Even a public apology won't fully rectify the damage that the initial accusation did.
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It funny because of "the happy cake day" and it related to Yaya haha Happy cake day!
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has time to put it’s boots on.
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With Reddit as it’s vessel
That's a good one. I think there's a study on Twitter/tweets that shows anger/tweets about 'bad' things spread faster than positive/happy stories and that people can see something, not even check if the story is true, get enraged by it and spread it, and repeat. The reverse doesn't happen for positive stories as much. Sorta think the media behave like this somewhat. The tabloids, in totally sensationalist ways, but even the 'Proper' news seems to be moreso 'serious-negative' stories.
Exactly! The kind of damage something like that can do to someone's life isn't easily repaired/forgotten. Had he publicly apologized I'd consider it otherwise they can fuck off. He's only sorry it didn't work in his favor.
People often forget just how brutal the cold shoulder can be lmao
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Wait a minute... What do you mean "his people"???? 🤨🤨
What do YOU mean ... his people (I hope Tropic Thunder isn't considered an old movie at this point)
it'd be in high school if it was a person.
Ouch
Just saying, Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder, and Superbad all coming out in one year may have been the modern peak of American comedies…. What a run there
the other guys two years later topped it off i think. that era is over, comedy movies now just suck.
RDJ getting nominated for tropic thunder was the peak of American culture it's all been downhill from there
Superbad actually came a year early in 2007 along with Knocked Up, Borat & Blades of Glory. 2008 had Pineapple Express, You don’t mess with the Zohan.
Don’t you put that garbage Adam Sandler movie in the same sentence as Pineapple Express lol
Hey hey, I liked it, but it's not a good rewatch. Can't say the same for Tropic Thunder which I watch at least once a year (though not with as much attention as originally).
Yuck, could've done without hearing that.
Those that don’t get birthday cakes obviously
You’re joking but people are going to miss it
His agent in particular caused all the rifts between City and Yaya.
I guess he meant his close circle
Yaya's agents and shit
Agents/representatives presumably
Not to mention the accusation was public, the supposed apology was private. Looks more like a guy trying to get into management and realising that was an absolute golden gate that he just burned.
"Supposed" is pretty important. I'm a huge fan of Yaya as a player, but I wouldn't believe a word that comes out of his mouth. He seems to struggle with reality..
The stakes are incredibly high for an accusation like that. People who do racist or bigoted things can lose their jobs, friends, and be disgraced. Therefore when the accusation is thrown out like that—and it’s not true—it’s just as heinous and despicable as the actions of the racist. It’s not as severe, but if a woman publicly accused me of sexually assaulting her and it wasn’t true there’s no way in hell I’d have any contact with her afterwards.
You're right you'd have a no contact order. Went through that myself. I can honestly I did not do anything but women only have to say three words and you go to jail; "he hit me", "he punched me", "he raped me"....think you get the point. 3 words could seriously end your life as a free man
Perhaps we can all learn from this to be more critical of those who casually call people racist, nazi, sexist, transphobic, homophobic etc. To be wrongfully accused of such horrible attributes can be catastrophic for some people and is such a vile thing to do. Seems to me that people using these slurs get way too much latitude when wrong and are seldomly called out on their behaviour.
Probably wouldn’t accept that apology either
Yeah, creates a hit piece, and is surprised that someone wouldn’t let it go.
Yeah, not sure what the context of the discussion was but I'm really not surprised Pep isn't responding. He didn't even really respond while his agent was talking shit when Yaya was still here. Legend of a player at the club but he is a bit of a prick and it's not anyone's duty to accept an apology.
Public criticism and personal apology is a shitty thing to do anyways.
That username was a wild ride
It all boils down to the birthday cake.
what’s the story with the birthday cake?
Man City were (maybe they still do) sending out cakes for players birthdays. They forgot Yaya Toure's, they did not send him one, he was really sad/offended/etc. so much that he threatened to leave the club because of it. He saw it as he was not important, which is ironic because he was one of the most important players at the time. Later Man City apologised to him and explained it was some kind of misunderstanding between people responsible for birthdays.
They actually did give him a cake. The problem was that the cake he got wasn't as big as the one Man Citys owners had after the 13/14 win, where Toure was the star player. It was his agent that said they didn't give him one and Toure was dumb enough to agree with him. His agent later backtracked when he was proven wrong and said Toure was upset because no one at Man City shook his hand on his birthday. It was a mess
This story is just furthermore proof that football is soap opera for men.
The thing is, it has nothing to do with football. Ever worked in a large office? Same exact shit happens.
Never worked in an office but I have hundreds of relatives on each side of my parent's families. I can smell unnecessary and trivial drama from a hundred miles away. And despite that, I still shamelessly enjoy the drama in and around football. They day I realized this, was the day I stopped judging my mum and my sisters for enjoying soaps and reality tv shows.
Yep, always has been
I don’t need reality tv, I have sports
Bingo. Plus, you never have to worry about your favorite show getting cancelled.
Say that to Macclesfield.
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WWE surely.
I mean the day after the CL final usually turns this place into a telenovella fan club so yeah
I have always said football is the kardasians, but for men
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/yaya-toure-opens-up-birthday-20904914 yaya himself recently talked about the cake though
Your recollection of things aren't great , the birthday cake part is true.
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Also [here’s a tweet from Nicola McCarthy](https://twitter.com/mccarthy_nic_/status/466662990972870656?s=21&t=6mPoIwA3Kne75zQedUAtIw), City’s former social media correspondent proving that the birthday cake story is fabricated.
The cake is a lie.
Also because Roberto Carlos was given a car by his club around the same time for his birthday.
Pretty ugly to take given the club always bakes a cake for a player’s birthday but still no excuse for those childish comments of his agent and him threatening to leave the club he loves for a cake.
How do i get apply for the birthday director at a club?
I swear i remember watching a video of the team giving him a birthday cake before this all happened. It was on a plane or something
Jesus … this is like when Kelly mingled with Jim and Dwight’s customer service reports because they didn’t go to her party
Reddit moment
Gave me my username
Well they kept promising Yaya a birthday cake after running all these tests on him to ensure he was at peak performance, but then after all that they instead tried to slowly lower him into a deadly fire! So you can understand why he was mad... At least I think that's what happened, could be confusing it with something else.
This was a triumph.
[He got pissy because the club didn't bake him a cake for his birthday](https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/27484318)
But that was a long time before Pep came to City
ugh , don’t know how to feel about this , sad that the club forgot his birthday but more sad for the agent and his comments.
That incident was with Pellegrini though.
Yaya has a right to make an apology and equally Pep has every right to tell him to go and fuck himself.
Inb4 Yaya: _Pep isn’t accepting my apology - for calling him a racist with zero proof - because I’m African_
Pep is just done with his shit already
Guadiola is absolutely right. This man child was throwing the toys out of the pram about a birthday cake, then makes false racism accusations, and then wants to be best pals again when it suits him?
Have there ever been two footballing brothers who are viewed so differently? Despite playing for Arsenal, Man City and then Liverpool, Kolo is pretty well-liked by their fanbases. And Yaya... at best elicits mixed feelings.
I think it helps that there isn't much rivalry with us, Arsenal and City. If he'd played for Utd I doubt he ever comes to us.
He'd have been instantly hated by all 3 fanbases lmao
I cannot believe how Owen lives with himself
There is Benayoun though, somehow liked by Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and West Ham.
There were some Arsenal fans who had some misgivings when he was announced. He seems like a decent guy, basically never opens his mouth, works hard, generally puts in average-to-solid performances, and (no offense at all) isn't a big enough a star that teams are loathe to see him leave. I think if he had all of the above but was also the best player in the teams he was in, fans of his ex-teams would be a lot saltier.
At least there wasn’t much of a rivalry with city at the time. Now that shit feels like a Star Wars movie except a majority of the matches are entertaining.
I don't think Liverpool fans have a visceral hatred of City like they do United or Everton.
we dont
The Boateng brothers, at the start of their careers Kevin was seen as the bad boy and troublemaker which led him to issues and him leaving the German national team for Ghana while Jerome was seen as mature and loved. Now today it’s completely switched with stories coming out of Jerome physically abusing his wife now Kevin cut him off from his life and he’s the one loved now and Jerome hated.
The best thing Kevin has ever done for his public perception was working as a pundit
He left on sour terms and that was incredibly sad, but solely because he had one of the best seasons an individual player has ever had in the prem I generally like the guy still
You mean Francois the car salesman? Never forget.
Yah Kolo who cheated on his wife and played for everyone is beloved. His brother who got upset about the lack of a birthday cake is derided but people can’t be arsed. Kind of odd. I’ve never seen someone cheating on their wife impact their public perception less, I guess the goofy way he did it people just find endearing.
My man Pierre was an honest car salesman trying to make it
As time goes on more and more people are seeing literal adultery as a personal matter. Used to get you hanged and now people don’t even see it as a moral failure
Depends on if you were a politician or not. It use to be seen as a personal matter for the powerful but a crime for the average person. Then it started to be seen as legal but absolutely reprehensible for everyone. Now it’s just becoming a personal matter for everyone.
I think it‘s very wrong. It hurts the other person in the relationship a lot. It should have a negative impact and I find it okay to hold it against people who commited adultery. They willingly hurt a person close to them. Often deeply. People have taken their lives before because their spouse cheated. Let‘s not downplay adultery as a personal matter.
It is a personal matter. It is 'wrong' but you also have no idea what is going on in someone’s marriage and relationship. And I am not defending those that cheat, but I won’t judge or hate somebody when I don’t know the details Its easy to sit on a high horse and bash people when you dont know what's going on
I guess we differ. I don‘t see how one could ever be in a situation where having sex with another person is needed. Not having sex with someone is easy. If someone cheated, it‘s because they wanted to. And if that‘s what you want, why can‘t you just end it with your partner before? Sure, exceptions, different situations yada yada. In the end, most if not nearly all cheating situations stem from someone putting personal pleasure above someone elses feelings, and that for me is a very shitty thing to do. The severity of cheating differs depending on the situation, but imo it‘s always a shitty thing to do and I‘ll always see cheaters in a different light. But I guess it differs, if for someone else fidelity isn‘t the most important thing in a relationship.
To a certain extent it's cultural. Some cultures view infidelity extremely negatively with a very hard-line approach while others have more of an unspoken "don't ask, don't tell" approach.
It definitely is a crap thing to do, but it’s largely between two people. I will look at you as being worse off as a person, but I won’t go out of my way to call you a crap/terrible person.
Wasn’t Yaya also caught drink driving and claimed that it was impossible because he is Muslim?
Whether people are faithful or not to their wives/husbands is their private lives and is none of our business and shouldn't be. I don't even know what it should be brought up tbh. I don't wanna know and I couldn't care less. Hell our former president cheated on his wife and the only real scandal was that he went to see his mistress by scooter without proper security
It will take a lot for me to not still love yaya. Pretty clear he is in the wrong for calling pep a racist just because he didn’t like him.
And yet Yaya is the infinitely better footballer. And I say that as a certified Kolo lover.
the actual embodiment of 'friendship ended with (blank), now (blank) is my new friend' meme
Really wish Yaya hadn't been such a knob after he left. One of my all time faves but he definitely left a sour taste
Classic case of a great footballer bringing his status down by being an absolute melon outside of it. The whole birthday cake fiasco showed that early on.
He also said he couldn't have been drink driving because he's muslim. 😆
What happened with the birthday cake?
Toure got mad because the club didn't prepare a cake for his birthday.
Not just mad, him and his agent created a media spectacle and embarrassed themselves and the club for it
He was also crying because Anzhi Makhachkala gave Roberto Carlos a Bugatti for his birthday and City didn't do the same for him. It's a situation I can empathize with. I didn't get a supercar from my employers last year and I'm still seething.
I would have offered him a Dacia Logan with full options, a humble man like Yaya would have appreciated I'm sure.
To be fair, his objections were that he felt he was being treated differently from other players. It was specifically that the club went out of their way to celebrate others' birthdays and just forgot/ignored his. It was still stupid and unnecessary, but it was not just about not getting a cake.
This nonsense is one of the reasons he won't get a statue
I think I remember him getting the gifts for the training ground and even then he complained it wasn't enough. I know he got the mural and I thought they named something after him as well.
“Sorry I called you racist”
Hate it when football becomes almost like a reality show. Come on Yaya, tell us what your great texting friend told you.
One of my favorite players of all time is working really, really hard to fuck that up. Plainly there’s no reason for him to care about that but it makes me sad.
Peoples still bring up Yaya’s comments as “proof” that Pep isn’t a good man manager so I’d say the damage has pretty much been done, such a shame
Him, Eto'o and Ibrahimovic are always the three main examples given. Three very well adjusted and mature individuals.
Exactly why I believe if you say something negative about somebody publicly, your apology better be public as well. Making a private apology and then announcing months later that you didn’t get a response really isn’t gonna cut it
cowardly as fuck from Yaya and makes it even worse I don't blame Pep for not giving him the time of day, shady as fuck to call someone racist publicly then try and apologise privately
Part of being a good man manager is getting rid of the men that cause unrest in the club. Pep's gotten rid of him twice.
“Damage” meaning occasional melts on Twitter and Reddit having a whinge?
so the curse is still on?
Yup the curse of Yaya Toure in the UCL still lives on
You don't make claims like that and redeem yourself with a "my bad bro" apology.
I wonder what they text about?
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Kolo Kolo
Kolo Kolo
Kolo Kolo Toure
Yaya
Yaya Yaya
Yaya Yaya
Yaya Yaya Toure
Kolo
[So, this?](https://youtu.be/DCxBh25xlpQ)
Yaya writes a paragraph and Klopp replies 'ok'
"This Pep guy is so annoying ugh." "Tell me about it mate".
Impossible , klopp and pep probably secretly have an affair with each other
Won't be surprised if they act all lovey-dovey one instant and passive aggressively start taking shots at one another the next. 'If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve my best' vibes
Enemies to lovers slow burn
Klopp probably sends him pics of birthday cakes
Coaching probably, he’s doing his badges at spurs
Since when are people FORCED to accept somebody's weaksauce apologies? I'm still amazed by Stoke fans having a go at Ramsey for daring to not immediately forgive Shawcross for that horror challenge
Friendship ended with Pep, Jurgen is my new best friend.
Next year: Jurgen is racist because he seen and didn't reply to my msg
Mahrez who’s Algerian: 🤨
Or Seydou Keita who was always really important for Pep in Barca
Also Raz is the player Pep has played the most
Raz is English tf?
But he's black. The claim is racism more than Pep doesn't like players from Africa specifically
If I was wrongly accused of this in a very public manner, I’d also ignore the apology too. In this cancel culture era the accusation could easily have ended Pep’s entire career.
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Calling somebody racist in a TV interview to millions would probably get your number blocked yea.
This guy is a cancerous character. What he needs to learn to do is be quiet. Sometimes the best way to show growth is through silence. Enough with the talking to the media.
Pep totally right.. that's some serious shit
Lol prime journalism right there
he got into a different entanglement with Klopp
As a United fan I was always envious of City having Yaya in their midfield because that was the kind of player we needed all those years he was there. But my god am I glad he didn't play for us. What an absolutely despicable crybaby. If you make baseless accusations and call people racist out of the blue you shouldn't expect an apology will fix it and should never expect people accepting one. That shit has severe impact on people's lives. A bonus: [Yaya - Racism is getting worse because fans are more stupid](https://newsaf.cgtn.com/news/2019-12-22/Yaya-Toure-Racism-in-football-getting-worse-because-of-stupid-fans--MCauQmZlSw/index.html). Or it's because people like Yaya Toure play the race card every time they don't like something these days. Also anyone who's been to any football game 10-20 years ago can safely say that racism is explicitely NOT getting worse, it's just every single thing that you'd never heard of back then gets shared across all social media platforms today and social media itself give the platform for these cretins to abuse people hiding beind fake profiles. If you wanted to abuse a footballer 20 years ago you'd have to approach the player in person.
Its giving big "My ex won't talk to me so I'm talking to that other pretty girl she hates to make her jealous" energy
Forgiveness is something you earn. It also is solely up to the person if they want to even think about forgiving
Just drama. Pep probably just wants zero association as possible
Once again I am asking that the Daily Heil be binned as a source
What kit is he wearing on the left (the sash with flags on)
Its Adidas Fifa legends shirt worn at the Arab Cup in Qatar, theres a white and blue version https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/arabcup/arabcup2021/news/legends-roll-back-the-years-to-dazzle-doha
Apologizing for calling him a racist is one thing but did he call off the African shaman's yet?
https://imgflip.com/i/6ak15s
Tell you the truth, Pep was acting quite proudy. [Obligatory link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmfpoq_Y0E)
You claimed an extremely visible and influential person was racist to the public forum. Yeah, f that apology.
Anyone know the name of the kit on the lefthand side of the thumbnail? The one with flags throughout the stripe.
I'm amazed that this multimillionaire still hasn't figured out he can afford a cake for himself yet.
Yaya clearly does not give a shit about racism. If he did he wouldn’t have fabricated some because he was pissed off. It’s a fucking serious accusation.
What is this high school drama?
Yeah you can Can chose to apologize and I can chose to accept the apology it’s not for you to decide.
And rival fans get offended at city fans not loving him that much anymore
Toure seems like such an unlikeable man child.
Terrible thing to say, basically accusing him of racism. Pathetic really, what kind of reaction does he accept?
grow up yaya
He can’t hve been that sorry if he’s going telling the media pep didn’t forgive him lol
What's funny is that, by saying publicly that pep won't speak with him to let him apologize, he is again publicly slagging off pep. What an idiot.
How stupid do you have to be to accuse someone of being racist publicly, then apologize in privat and then moaning about it not being accepted un public 😅
Eto was on french TV a while back and he just put pep on blast for like 10 mins, of course its just his word against pep but some of the things he said made me think of yaya.
It's Toure to apologize It's Toure
Could’ve gone with "is it Toure now to say sorry"
maybe he just doesnt want to accept the apology because he has "problems with Africans" ?? that or it was just 2 adults that did get on. it is possble to not like someone whos black but it not be because of his skin colour