Toure gets Gardiola recall condition, quits Ivory Coast

Yaya Toure will not play for Manchester City again until he apologises to the Premier League club for comments made by his agent, manager Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old Ivory Coast midfielder’s agent Dimitri Seluk had said Toure felt “humiliated” by Guardiola after being left out of City’s Champions League squad.

“He must apologise. If he doesn’t, he won’t play,” Guardiola told reporters.

“It was difficult to leave him out of the Champions League squad but (the) day after, his (agent) went to the media. (Toure) has not had the courage to call me. From that moment he was out.”

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The four-times African Footballer of the Year has only played once this season, in the second leg of a Champions League playoff tie against Steaua Bucharest when City had a 5-0 lead from the first game.

Meanwhile, Toure announced earlier on Tuesday his retirement from international football.

“Writing this note was probably ‘the most difficult match of my life’,” he said in a statement on his website (officialyayatoure.com).

He said the decision was not to do with his age, the intensity of training or number of games.

“Football is everything to me. It gave me so many things in my career that now I don’t feel able to set new goals, as a player with the Elephants of the Ivory Coast.”