Manchester City star Yaya Toure has snubbed a shock move to bitter-rivals Manchester United.<\/p>\n
Toure has fallen out with the Premier League champions and wants to leave the Etihad Stadium this summer.<\/p>\n
United saw a chance to lure the Ivory Coast international across town to Old Trafford in what would have been a sensational transfer coup.<\/p>\n
United bosses have shown interest in Toure and were hopeful of pulling-off a \u00a340m deal.<\/p>\n
But Toure has told the fallen giants he has no interest in joining his neighbours at United because he is holding out for a move to Paris Saint-Germain instead.<\/p>\n
The snub is a blow to new United boss Louis Van Gaal, who is keen to strengthen his flagging midfield.<\/p>\n
Toure, 31, wants to leave the Premier League altogether and is hoping PSG make an official approach.<\/p>\n
Toure has spent most of the summer criticising City and their recent treatment of him.<\/p>\n
He threw his future into doubt at the end of last season when his agent Dimitri Seluk claimed the club didn’t acknowledge his birthday in the correct way.<\/p>\n
The bizarre outburst stunned club bosses when Seluk insisted Toure had been ignored by the Abu Dhabi owners when the squad visited them after landing the title.<\/p>\n
Toure then slammed the club’s lack of support in the wake of the tragic death of his brother Ibrahim from cancer last month at the age of just 28.<\/p>\n
He claimed that bosses didn’t let him leave a post-season training camp to spend time with his brother before he died.<\/p>\n
City insist Toure didn’t ask for compassionate leave and would have been granted some if he had done.<\/p>\n
But the stand-off shows no signs of coming to an end and it is understood Pellegrini will hold face-to-face showdown talks with Toure at the start of the club’s pre-season tour of America in the hope of persuading him to stay.<\/p>\n
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