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Yaya Toure has ambitions to return to Barcelona after Man City stay

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure claims he will one day return to play for Barcelona. The Ivory Coast international left the Spanish giants this summer in a big-money move to City despite the 27-year-old admitting it was a wrench to leave the Camp Nou.

Toure felt the time was right to move on given the emergence of Sergio Busquets who not only replaced him in Barca's starting line-up but forced his way into Spain's World Cup-winning team this summer.

"I will be back in Barcelona to play, not as a tourist," he told Radio Catalunya.

"I want to return to Barcelona, because to leave was the hardest moment of my life.

"Sergio Busquets is a very good player, and without Busquets, I would not have gone.

"He has great quality and what I want are games, not sitting on the bench. I won everything there and needed other challenges."

City splashed out £24million to sign Toure and link him up with brother Kolo, who signed from Arsenal a year earlier.

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