Former FC Barcelona and Manchester City star Yaya Toure says he is open to talking with Pep Guardiola after their falling out years ago.
The pair had not seen eye-to-eye during their time at the Etihad, which led to the Ivorian being frozen out of the side when Guardiola initially took over.
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Toure also accused Guardiola of having problems with African players, but he reveals he would be happy to sit down with his former manager.
"I would be more than happy to talk with him,' Toure told the Daily Mail.
"I'm on a different pathway now. I will be someone who tries to understand my players, different cultures and footballers, bringing them together to make a team. I will become a manager one day.'
Toure has aspirations of becoming a coach but revealed he had to have a different mentality after playing football.
"You can be a big player and not be a big coach. Before, as a player, I was so selfish. I only looked after myself," he added.
"Now, I have to understand children. I'm back to the start. And at their age, life is not so certain. You have to support them, talk to them a lot. When I was a teenager, playing in Belgium, I made mistakes. With food, behaviour. I was out driving cars. If you don't have someone who understands you, it's tough. I want to be that person who is there for them.
"But I also want to push them to realise their dreams. I say to them, "Do you see Xavi and Iniesta? I played with them, I can talk to you about what they did differently. Come on, let us watch some videos". There is not a barrier between me and them, they can always come to me."
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