Former Manchester City midfielder Yaya Touré has suggested the possibility of a change to Pep Guardiola following the club’s fourth successive Champions League knockout.

According to the midfielder, the current ManCity manager has failed to deliver on his expected mandate in four years that he has been at the helm of affairs despite the heavy financial backing he receives from the club’s superiors in the transfer market.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Touré said that Spaniard has failed to win the Champions League, a trophy the club has longed for since the inception of the competition.

“Pep has been signed to bring the trophy to the club, and when you see your opponents like Liverpool win the trophy without doing a lot in the transfer market, it becomes quite strange and disappointing.

Everybody knows Pep is a great manager, but when things aren’t going your way, sometimes it’s time for change.”

It’s incredible how Pep has established the Citizens into a real competitive force on the domestic font, winning eight trophies in four years but lots of supporters, stakeholders are in dire need of a continental trophy to cement their status on the European scene.

“It is going to be complicated. From what I know, Messi loves Barcelona. He loves the city, he loves the club, he loves the philosophy there.

But if he had to leave the club, maybe he could come to City. Why? Because City have the money to buy him and there are only a few clubs in the Premier League who can afford him, to be honest.

“If he comes to City he is going to be good for City because the rest of the Premier League is quite intense and hard as well. The way Messi plays, few managers are going to love him because he just sits off to the side and does not want to defend much.



“But if he came to England, I could see him playing for City because Guardiola knows him better and he could put him in this City team to play his football. I have a little bit of doubt that he is going to leave Barcelona, to be honest. Barcelona all boils down to Messi. If Messi leaves there is going to be a massive gap.”

Yaya switched clubs from Barcelona for Manchester City in 2010 after a fall out with Pep Guardiola, who had taken over the job at the time going on to enjoying a steller number of years with the Blues.

Barcelona has had lots of on and off issues, axing manager Quique Setien, Sporting Director Eric Abidal, and are set to make wholesale changes to the first team according to club president Josep Bartomeu in the summer would lots of big names set to be offloaded.

It’s unsure whether, after many years of association with the Catalans, Messi would be willing to switch sides.