Liverpool are one of the teams Yaya Toure is willing to join.
Liverpool fans have had a split reaction to an admission from Yaya Toure’s agent that he would sign for the club for just £1 per week.
Toure reportedly wants bonus incentives too, but it is a remarkable offer from a player who has been earning in excess of £200,000 per week since he signed for Manchester City in 2010.
What Toure wants, is a stage to compete at a top club in England, and prove a point to Pep Guardiola, a manager who sold him from Barcelona and effectively ended his City career.
Toure’s agent Dimitri Seluk said, via The Mirror: “At a time when big sums are being paid, I officially declare that Yaya is ready to move as a free agent to any English club in the top six with a salary of £1 pound a week. But with a bonus system based on certain successes.”
Toure has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League during his time at City, but is now 35-years-old.
He was selected to start just one league game last season, plus nine as a substitute, and his best days are clearly behind him.
What interested clubs must decide is whether he has anything left, and if he will be an unsettling figure behind the scenes.
Liverpool finished short of City last season and have been busy strengthening in midfield this summer already, adding Fabinho to the already arriving Naby Keita.
There might not be too much room for Toure, but perhaps his ex-Red brother Kolo may be able to have a word and sell the club on a short term deal for the three-time league winner.
Liverpool fans are divided on a potential deal. Here is a look at the reaction on Twitter to the possibilty of signing Yaya Toure…
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