Asked about the renewal of the contract of Barcelona defensive midfielder and Ivory Coast international Yaya Touré (25) (read more here), the players's agent Dimitry Seluk was in an interview with Catalan radio station RAC 1 very critical about the attitude of Barcelona:
"They're waiting to renew the contract of Eto'o, they're waiting to renew the contract of Touré. They just continue to wait. But if the team will win the Liga or the Champiosn League, then they will start thinking: what is happening here? And the players will have left already. And who will play then? Hleb?
How longer they wait, how more expensive it will be. Eto'o just has to wait and see who offers him the best contract. He chose the right path. Touré is a more relaxed person and he prefers to wait and see. Those are two different ways of acting. Eto'o gave an interview and Touré didn't. But none of them has already obtained a contract correction."
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Agent Toure criticizes postponing renewal talks
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true thing! Toure must get a renewal soon!
what does his agent care how expensive it is to renew? Its barcelona's money isnt it? Added to which, no player is bigger than the club. I'd much rather have players that dont have to miss an entire month every january, but life isnt ideal. Deal with it. if you play well you will get a renewal. End of story. Do not unsettle the entire club because of money. He says barca has not acted correctly, is it correct to run to the media to complain when barca have promissed to renew in the summer? Maybe we should sell yaya to arsenal in a deal for cesc. Sergi busquets and keita have done the defensive mid job very well for us.
From where did Hleb enter the picture??? may be Yaya's agent doesn't know wat to speak n how to speak... he shouldn't speak bad about another player in the squad.
Poor Hleb .. :D
Dumb agent !
Toure certainly deserves a renewal But the agent speaks more than he is supposed to.
That agent should check up how things work in this business. The players are still under contract so it's only Barcelona who can decide if they will leave or not in the summer. If they do it will cost a lot so mr Dimitry Seluk doesn't have to worry about our squad the next season. Yaya should definitely make a statement against this rude attack on Barcelona.
douche agent,those idiots are destroying soccer,hleb played very on the last game also and has alot of quality,who his agent think yaya toure is? at least hleb played in arsenal before ,where did toure play in olympiakos.... also yaya should keep his mind on the field cause sergi has taken his regular position and now we will see that in the next cl games that pep will use sergi instead of yaya in critical games.
Skanjos, I'm sorry but this is one of the worst comments I've seen in awhile.
Yaya has not come out and said anything has he? No. He recently said he wants to remain at Barca for life. Even his agent said Yaya likes to be quiet. To compare Hleb and Yaya's previous teams is stupid. Who said Yaya's mind is not on the field? Sergio has not taken his regular position, and I bet that first goal wouldn't have been given up if Yaya was on the field against Betis. Sergio is better when Yaya is on the field, you remember that.
I can't believe you compared the teams Hleb and Yaya previously played on. LOL.. ridiculous.
what is the agent trying to say, cause i dont get that. First of all, Barca wants to renew the contract of Etoo but its Samuel who said that lets talk in the summer. No waiting done there. If Samuel said lets wait til summer, why should Barca offer him the contract now?
About Yaya, he has a running contract with Barca and if he wants to change the contract, he should contact the club not the other way around. Its good Yaya is relaxed. He should be concentrated on the game and in summer when the time comes, its time for negotiations.
Cause imo it has been also the clubs policy to deal with the least amount of players at time during the season.
Anyways mr. Seluk not only did you show your stupidity about the game you also managed to land an offensive punch on one of the teammembers. How can anyone respect you after that ?
I think the irritation is because Yaya is working on a lower salary n he has repeatedly pledged his future to Barca. In view of that a non-committal reaction can be rather disappointing.
Besides this the agent does have a point in that renewals will be more expensive for Barca after they have won a few titles. I m not saying anything should be rushed through but when a player has a made a gesture of faith offering himself to the club it should be reciprocated with something, at least a verbal assurance. No reaction is akin to rejection and we shouldn't be treating a valued player like this.
And its funny what he said about Hleb who really should take the hint by now nobody has been impressed by his performances so far and he really has to get his act together.
i didnt talk about yaya m8 but about his agent,also its not stupid to compare old teams mainly because you compare the expirience a player has in difficult leagues.also i didnt say that yayas mind isnt on the field or he said something bad himself,i said he should keep his mind the field and not get distracted by contract talks cause he is losing his place.
we'll see who will start against lyon,i think we will go with sergi-keita-xavi midfield...
Cut Hleb some slack for gods sakes!
It takes time for any player from the English capital to get adjusted in Barcelona because we play a unique style of football and we all know it.
It was totally un-necessary of this dumb agent to bring Hleb into the picture. Whether he has impressed anyone or not is another issue for that matter.
Agents like these screw with harmony.
btw: I think Yaya definitely needs to start in the CL game against Lyon.
Busquets is still too young to play at that level. We've seen how our mid-field gets over run when we dont play Yaya.
He's a beast !
I don't know what are Txiki and Guardiola trying to prove by refusing to renew Yaya's and Eto'o's contract. Txiki is an idiot.
HouseMD etoo is the one that said no contract renewal till the summer. Guardiola has nothing to do with renewals firstly and secondly txiki and laporta want to renew etoo's contract but etoo has said he wants to wait till the end of the season so it will not be a distraction. The only idiot is toure's agent
Hleb mentioned in an interview that Yaya knew Russian so he is probably the only person Hleb can communicate easily with in the dressing room. So it was, to be honest, rather stupid of the agent to mention him and possibly vitrify the atmosphere between Yaya and Hleb but like I said Barca seem to be giving Yaya a raw deal.
to kamikaze kontiki
hleb can speak english
so he can also easily communicate with guddy, sylinvho, henry
i agree with jnice
busquets play better as a cm with yaya in dm
truelly toure a new contract,but i think barcelona is doing the right thing by posponing it till the summer,so as not to affect the perfomance of the player for the team,and i dont really know why his agent is talking about eto'o and critisicing hleb,what is his own problem with the other players? he knows only about his own player and not to start critisicing a palyer like hleb.he should be corrected.
I watched him speak English in an interview, he just looks he has a frog in his throat and no words can squeeze past it.
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