TLMLF's Agent claims City have disrespected his player

...by leaving him out of the CL squad. Really...you can't make it up.
The words TLMLF, disrespect and City in the same sentence!!!

He can kiss my arse.

Apologies..."humiliated" was the word.....even better!!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/pep-guardiola-humiliated-yaya-toure-8763635

For £220k a week and you can strip me naked and drag me through Piccadilly on a donkey !!  Humiliated my arse 

Complete pair of bell-ends.

Wonder what Pep would say if cake-gate happened now 

If this was MP...he'd have been in the squad.

Pep's clearly told him before the season started - a la Nasri, Hart etc, "stay if you like, but you will hardly play".

TLMLF and his agent have decided to turn down moves and call City's bluff - and now, Pep has demonstrated who the boss is.

Wouldn't surprise me, as I said the other day, if Pep makes him train in the afternoon with the kids....just to prove a point. I would!!

Pair of wankers.

When CL games come around, make him train with the kids.  Don't want or need him around. He can't easily use that as constructive dismissal.

I don't think constructive dismissal applies in football, does it?

His agent needs to shut the hell up. This is the third time in as many seasons that he's whined about how City have been disrespectful, but isn't it funny how, when presented with an alternative, he's got Yaya to stay put? Now if I was being disrespected that much, I'd say, "Nah mate, I've had enough, I want to go."

He's in employment with the club so it can apply. I guess most players just leave and move on. Eva sued Chelsea for constructive dismissal.

Yeah, constructive dismissal can still apply - but you'd have to have a pretty good case.

In this case - City can say "we told him his services would be no longer needed and to find another club. We offered to help him find a club, we got offers from 2 clubs, but he and his agent refused them. Therefore, as he isn't part of our upcoming plans, we feel it only right to not include him in our first team training sessions"....they'd be hard pushed to say a constructive dismissal case can be proven on those grounds...as long as the club keep paying him.

I think some contracts stipulate they have to be involved in a certain amount of games, otherwise they can move to terminate the contract and become a free agent. 
I feel this is the direction his agent will be moving, to get a bumper deal in January.

It's amazing isn't it?

A player can have in his contract - I WILL PLAY A MINIMUM OF 5 GAMES...for example.

But get's injured and is out for a whole season and still gets paid every single penny of their weekly salary during that time.

Topdawg wrote:He's in employment with the club so it can apply. I guess most players just leave and move on. Eva sued Chelsea for constructive dismissal.

Not quite the same thing, Dawg. She wasn't a player, she was a club employee. Now I know technically Yaya is an employee as well, but I doubt the playing staff are on anything like the same terms.

blueboy wrote:Yeah, constructive dismissal can still apply - but you'd have to have a pretty good case.

In this case - City can say "we told him his services would be no longer needed and to find another club. We offered to help him find a club, we got offers from 2 clubs, but he and his agent refused them. Therefore, as he isn't part of our upcoming plans, we feel it only right to not include him in our first team training sessions"....they'd be hard pushed to say a constructive dismissal case can be proven on those grounds...as long as the club keep paying him.

I'd love to see a player bring a constructive dismissal case, just to see what happens. I shan't be holding my breath, though.

It was argued, successfully, that senior bank managers that were still paid their high wage but demoted to working at the tellers desk were being constructively dismissed.

The same could be said for making a top international play with the kids, even if you don't want him to stay.

Again, these senior bankers are employees whose role is clearly defined at a higher level, to which being effectively demoted sees a reduction in that status and also affects their CV.

I know players should be regarded as employees as well, but I don't believe they have the same terms and conditions as ordinary jobs.  A squad consists of twenty-odd players and not all of them can get a game, so does being sat on the bench constitute a reduction in their role?  How about not getting picked at all?  Their role is to be part of the squad as the manager sees it, whether that's a first team start, sat on the bench, being rested for an important fixture or frozen out for being overweight / not good enough / an arrogant cockwomble.

Like I say, I'd love to see a player try it, but I suspect the reason we've not seen it before is because there's no room for it in their contracts.

I agree Leo.

IF, TLMLF had a term in his contract to play X amount of games in a season....just keep him training with the kids until January...we can change the CL squad then, plus we can include him for whatever domestic cup run is left, IF, he decides after 5 months of training with the kids, he wants to stay at City for another 5 months.

His choice...City have done all they can to support his pathetic demands over the past 2 seasons....time for him and his fuckwit agent to grow a pair....do the right thing....and FUCK RIGHT OFF AT THE NEXT OFFER!!!!!!!

blueboy wrote:His choice...City have done all they can to support his pathetic demands over the past 2 seasons....time for him and his fuckwit agent to grow a pair....do the right thing....and FUCK RIGHT OFF AT THE NEXT OFFER!!!!!!!

Amen to that!

Let's hop Manuel can persuade him to go to China in January

No chance he will agree to terminate his contract though, because it means just that, we stop paying him and he becomes a free agent so he can move outside of the window.

He was allowed to leave on a free, so its all about the money

I wish the fat fuck, would just go.....and take his agent with him!!

Does he have no idea what he sounds like, constantly disrespecting the club, the manager, the fans? TLMLF must be thick as pig-shit...or basically, doesn't give a rats ass....and some dare to use the word 'legend' when talking about him!!

football legend maybe.

No chance....fat chancer who was good for 2 seasons.