Both Bastian Schweinsteiger and Yaya Toure are currently not involved in their respective managers’ plans for their teams, and have been frozen out. Pep Guardiola has told the Ivorian that he won’t play for Manchester City until he apologises for comments that were made by his agent Dimitri Seluk, who criticised the Manchester City coach for failing to name Yaya Toure in the Champions League squad. The 33-year-old’s contract at the Etihad runs out next summer, and he will be raking in £230,000 a week from City until then.
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Meanwhile, Bastian Schweinsteiger is now training with the Manchester United reserves, after turning down a move to Sporting Lisbon in the summer transfer window. Jose Mourinho even went so far as to omit 32-year-old World Cup winner from the club’s recent photo shoot.
The German has two years remaining on his £180,000 per week contract with the Red Devils, but it doesn’t look like he’s about to work his way back into Mourinho’s good books anytime soon. However, Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain are prepared to offer both players a way out of their misery.
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The French club are reportedly interested in acquiring the services of both the Manchester outcasts in the fast approaching January transfer window. The defending Ligue 1 champions are set to make bids in the region of £1.5 million for each of the two veterans to whisk them away from the clubs that have deemed them surplus to requirements.
Yaya Toure was a transfer target for Paris Saint-Germain in the recently passed summer transfer window, but they failed to make the move materialise. Now it appears they may get their man in January, but there will most definitely be other clubs interested in the midfielder’s signature, just as there will be for Bastian Schweinsteiger’s signature as well.
The fact that both players would be eligible to play for the French club in the Champions League has surely not gone unnoticed by those at the club, and it would have been a big factor in choosing them as transfer targets. If PSG do land both of them, it would be a great piece of business. They may be in the twilight stages of their careers, but they still have some more left to give before bringing the curtains down.
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