Yaya Toure: The $300,000-a-week footballer who doesn't play?

Yaya Toure joined Manchester City in 2010 from Barcelona.

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure's career, both for club and country, took two very different turns Tuesday.

The $300,000-a-week star announced he was quitting international football at the same time his club coach threatened to freeze him out for the rest of the season.

 

After the 33-year-old star announced he was retiring from Ivory Coast duty after a 14-year international career, City coach Pep Guardiola insisted Toure would not feature in his team unless the player apologized for remarks made by his agent, Dimitri Seluk.

 

Guardiola left Toure out of the club's UEFA Champions League squad -- a move which infuriated Seluk and led to a fierce polemic aimed at the Spaniard.