Toure claims ready to quit Man City as he won't 'stay where he's not wanted'

Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure has claimed that he is ready to quit Premier League club Manchester City this summer, insisting that he won't stay where he is not wanted.

Toure said that no amount of wages would make him stay at a club if he feels that he no longer belongs there or if no challenge exists for him. He insisted that he is fed up of being made the scapegoat for the club's shambolic title defense and failings in Europe.

The four-time African Player of the Year has been tipped to be sacrificed in the club's end-of-season claret along with the likes of Samir Nasri and Jesus Navas, The Mirror reported.

However, Toure added that when things are not necessarily going well in a club, the key players take the fall, adding that he is not the only one to have been attacked even if there is tendency to be harsher with him. He claimed that football is his passion, his job and that gives him two good reasons to do as well as he can.

The midfielder said that he accepts criticism if it helps him to improve and he ignores them when their aim is simply to break him.

Toure said that since he started playing football, he had a dream as a little boy, adding that today, he is living the dream of thousands of little boys, and he represents his continent, Africa, and that has no price.