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Yaya Toure denies he is unhappy at City

Yaya Toure hit back at Rodney Marsh's claims that he was unhappy in Manchester © PA Photos

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Yaya Toure has denied rumours that he is unhappy at Manchester City.

Toure, a 2009 signing from Barcelona, took to Twitter to rebuff suggestions from the former City striker Rodney Marsh that he wants to leave the Etihad Stadium.

He then retweeted Marsh's response, accepting he was wrong to infer the former Monaco player was unsettled.

Hey buddies, don't listen to the rumors, I'm happy at city..the Toure brothers are in Casa and are missing Manchester pic.twitter.com/ObNDjmMij4

— yaya toure (@Toure_yaya42) November 13, 2013

Toure wrote: "Hey buddies, don't listen to the rumours, I'm happy at City. How can I be unhappy when I get so much love and respect from everyone at City?"

The 30-year-old signed a four-year contract extension in April to keep him in Manchester until 2017.

He has already scored seven times this season and has led City in the absence of skipper Vincent Kompany, with manager Manuel Pellegrini preferring Toure to Pablo Zabaleta as vice-captain.

Marsh had said on TalkSport: "People close to Manchester City tell me Yaya Touré is not very happy and he's one of their great players. When you start to hear rumblings from within the camp, and you see the way Touré played last weekend [at Sunderland], when he was strolling around and didn't look interested, I'm wondering now if it will all go a little bit the other way.

"It looks like they're throwing billions of pounds at players but keep coming up short. I think this season could end in tears at Man City."

Let it go people. @Toure_yaya42 told me I was wrong. Fair enough. Move on. Over.

— Rodney Marsh (@RodneyMarsh10) November 13, 2013

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