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TOM BLACKETT on the fall from grace of Yaya Toure and Bastian Schweinsteiger – and a possible new career…

HOW quickly fortunes can change in football – just ask Manchester City's Yaya Toure and Manchester United’s Bastian Schweinsteiger.
One minute you are indispensable and the heartbeat of your team, the next you appear to have morphed into the invisible man.
To be honest, Toure was probably expecting the worst as soon as it was confirmed Pep Guardiola was taking over in the Manchester City hotseat for the 2016-17 season.
Guardiola was, after all, the man who ...

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