Yaya Toure s agent Dimitri Seluk believes African fans will no longer support Manchester City following Pep Guardiola s decision to leave the experienced midfielder out of his Champions League squad and will instead start backing arch-rivals United instead.
The 33-year-old, sold to City from Barcelona in 2010 when Guardiola was in charge at Camp Nou, featured for the full 90 minutes in the second leg of City s Champions League play-off win over Steaua Bucharest, but has yet to make a Premier League appearance this season.
Toure seemingly faces an uphill battle to win over Guardiola and Seluk feels the Spaniard s treatment of his client will cost City numerous fans in Africa.
Manchester City will lose millions of supporters from Africa because of this decision from Guardiola, the Ivorian s representative told Sportsmail.
Now they will support Manchester United.
A lot of people in Africa say they will never see any more matches of City on television.
Toure s contract with City expires at the end of the season, allowing him to sign a pre-contract with another club come January, and Seluk is adamant there is plenty of interest in the midfielder.
Yaya can sign a pre-contract with clubs abroad in January, he added.
He will have many offers. Club from China and America of course want him, but we will have a lot of offers from England and Europe. He is in very good shape, very good condition.
Maybe that s not good enough for Guardiola, but then Zlatan Ibrahimovic wasn t good enough for him.
We will see [what happens] in January. Yaya is a very professional guy and waiting for three months is not a problem.
