Yaya Toure's six-year career at Manchester City looks to be over. New manager Pep Guardiola can continue to lavish the midfielder with praise for his professionalism and can carry on referring to his training sessions as "amazing," but the writing is on the wall, 10-foot high and in glowing neon letters.
Left out of City's matchday squad for Saturday's 2-1 defeat of Sunderland in the Premier League and left at home while a 21-man squad travel to Romania to face Steaua Bucurest in the Champions League playoffs on Tuesday night, this is the end for the Ivorian. And it's about time too.