Manchester City should consider replacing unsettled midfielder Yaya Toure with Juventus star Paul Pogba, according to one of their former players.
Ex-Blues captain Richard Edghill, who spent nine years at the club between 1993 and 2002, has been monitoring the Toure situation with interest.
The Ivory Coast international, who fired Manuel Pellegrini’s men to Premier League and League Cup glory last season with 24 goals, has hinted on more than one occasion this summer that he could leave the Etihad Stadium.
Before the World Cup started he revealed on Twitter that he was not satisfied with the amount of attention he received from colleagues on his birthday.
And earlier this week he told France Football that City would not grant him compassionate leave to be with his dying brother Ibrahim, who passed away after a battle with cancer.
Edghill believes the champions must look at their options if the 31-year-old continues to criticise his employers in public and feels ex-Manchester United man Pogba, who is in fine World Cup form for France, is an excellent choice.
He said on Twitter: “If this Yaya nonsense carries on Pogba would be an ideal replacement!
“He’s young an only going to get better!”
Pogba, who is a decade younger than Toure, has two years remaining on his contract in Turin.