UEFA Champions League: Manchester City's Yaya Toure says he's not deaf

Yaya Toure insists he heard racist chants during the Champions League game against CSKA Moscow

Yaya Toure has reiterated that he heard monkey chants during the Champions League match against CSKA Moscow and rubbished claims that he misheard the booing, saying he wasn’t deaf.

Toure said, “I am not deaf. Other people must have seen it.

We are all humans. It is not a nice feeling to go and play a football match, to bring joy to the people and to be called a monkey or to hear monkey noises. I don’t look like a monkey.

Doumbia is a young brother. Someone I admire who I have known a long time – we come from the same country.

I don’t want to say things that will put him in trouble but you can see a little bit the manipulation around all this.

It is so pathetic and so sad to see things (racism) like that. I am ashamed to still have to talk about this subject.”

The reference to Doumbia was in relation to his supposed statement that there were no racist chants during the match, which were being run by the CSKA Moscow club’s official website.

Doumbia is Toure’s Ivory Coast team mate and he updated his Facebook account saying, “I want to insist that I did not talk to any journalist about these facts, except just one from Sport-Express, whom I know well, so none of the quotes you read in other publications outside Russia came from me.”