Players' chief Gordon Taylor has labelled Manchester City's decision to hold a disciplinary hearing with Kolo Toure over his failed drugs test as "strange''.GettyImagesKolo Toure joined Manchester City from Arsenal in 2009 for £16 million• Kolo Toure to learn fate at City hearingTaylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), attended the hearing with Toure on Monday afternoon and the outcome of the gross misconduct charge is expected later this week.Toure, who has served a six-month ban imposed by the FA, produced character references from his former club Arsenal and a number of fellow players at the hearing.He insists he tested positive for a because he took one of his wife's slimming pills not knowing it contained a banned substance.Taylor said the six-month ban was punishment enough,
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Guardiola rejects Yaya Toure snub claim
Barcelona coach Pepe Guardiola has denied that he froze Yaya Toure out of the club, insisting that the midfielder asked for a transfer and that the Catalans "tried to convince him to stay". PA PhotosYaya Toure played under Pepe Guardiola for two years at Barcelona • Jolly: Toure looking to make history Toure, 28, left Camp Nou in July 2010 for big-spending Manchester City in a dealt worth around £24 million and enjoyed a fine first season, winning the FA Cup and helping Roberto Mancini's side qualify for the Champions League for the first time. The Ivory Coast international has since claimed he was forced out of Barca and this week reiterated that stance, insisting Guardiola "ignored" him and that he "did not want to