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#3 Yaya Toure (2010 - 2018)
The man-mountain, breaker of walls and all round-dynamo, Toure’s last couple of seasons may have been forgettable but his time at City certainly wasn’t.
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Brought in from Barcelona for £25m after Guardiola decided to go with Busquets as his first choice defensive midfielder, it was thought that Toure would add steel and solidity given to the Man City midfield.
However, the Ivorian giant added a lot more than that. Mancini saw in Toure more than defensive abilities and gave him free rein to bomb forward. The result was an explosion of power, precision, passing, and goals as the player became one of the team’s primary sources of goals and assists.
Under Pellegrini, he continued gamely in this role and was undoubtedly the star man in the 2013/2014 title-winning season scoring 20 goals. While there have been certain unsavory incidents (the cake episode in 2013 and the allegations of racism leveled against Guardiola this year), Toure’s contributions will remain evergreen in the minds of Manchester City supporters.
