article_snippet: Great players with baggage like Yaya Toure are always worth the aggro when Great players with baggage like Yaya Toure are on top of Great players with baggage like Yaya Toure game.
article_snippet: But when Great players with baggage like Yaya Toure form dips and yet Great players with baggage like Yaya Toure remain high maintenance, there is only ever one outcome.
article_snippet: Yaya Toure Yaya Toure struggled to impress as Manchester City crashed out of the Champions League to Barcelona .
article_snippet: Manchester City were happy to put up with the baggage that came with Yaya Toure (right) while Yaya Toure was performing at Yaya Toure best .
article_snippet: Yaya Toure became the Champions League best-paid player when Yaya Toure signed for Roberto Mancini from Barcelona in 2010.
article_snippet: In domestic football, Yaya Toure has been an unqualified success and scored 24 goals last season as Manchester City won their second championship.
article_snippet: Yaya Toure world-class strike against Sunderland at Wembley won Manuel Pellegrini the Capital One Cup.
article_snippet: When things were rosy, the club were happy to overlook constant talk about Yaya Toure being linked with other clubs, Yaya Toure pushiness to secure improved contracts and a farcical stand-off about not being treated with enough respect on Yaya Toure birthday.
article_snippet: the Champions League managers felt Defender Pablo Zabaleta didn't do enough of the hard yards to protect Manchester City defensively but Premier League managers were unable to capitalise much because when Yaya had the ball Yaya Toure was an unstoppable force of nature.
article_snippet: But those days have gone and the 31-year-old's hapless showing against Barcelona as Manchester City crashed out of the Champions League underlined Yaya Toure is not the man to push the club forward any more.
article_snippet: Yaya Toure dereliction of duty to allow Ivan Rakitic the space to score Barca's winner was noted immediately.
article_snippet: Going forward, Yaya Toure shooting was wayward and Yaya Toure was taken off before the end by Manuel Pellegrini the Capital One Cup – unthinkable one or two years ago.
article_snippet: Remember, Toure had been banned for the previous three games in Europe and this was Toure big chance to show the world what Toure was still capable of.
article_snippet: Toure symbolises the malaise
article_snippet: but Toure's not the only one.
highlights_snippet: Yaya Toure produced another underwhelming display against Barcelona .
  