Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Yaya Toure Turned Down United
The midfielder moved to City last week for around £24 million and he has now revealed he turned down an offer from Manchester United to play with Man City.
“Last year Manchester United were interested in signing me,” said Toure
“When I was talking about renewing my contract, United asked if I wanted to sign for them. In football, you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow.
“United are a big club, one of the biggest in the world, but I chose City because they have not won anything for a long time. It’s a very nicefeeling to come in and see everything changing.
“It’s an interesting challenge for me and I hope everything goes well. I saw a lot of things written about why I left but, for me, I wanted to play with my brother.
“That was very important for me. Now I’ve signed for City I’m very happy. Now my brother and I want to make great things happen at this club and I’m sure we’ll do it.
“My motivation is to do great things with City, to finish second or third maybe, to get into the Champions League.”