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YAYA TOURE has stunned Manchester City by demanding: Give me a new contract by Saturday � or I am off. The Ivorian midfielder is fuming that talks over a new deal have stalled for SIX months. And Toure�s agent, Dimitri Seluk, last night admitted: �If he signs a contract in the next three or four days, OK. If not, we will not wait any longer and will start negotiations with different clubs. �Today is Tuesday, so it means by Saturday. We will say �Thank you. OK, Yaya will leave in May.� �I do not feel he will stay at City. This is not about money. He wants to leave because of many reasons. �He is one of the best players at Manchester City but does not feel the respect of the staff. Only Roberto Mancini respects Yaya.� The former Barcelona ace, 29, is City�s top earner on �220,000 a week. But Seluk insists he has not asked for a pay rise and the dispute centres around the club�s delaying tactics. And Toure, away on international duty for a World Cup qualifier against Gambia in Abidjan on Saturday, is ready to use FIFA rules in his cause. They state if a player has not signed a new deal by the end of the third year of his contract he can buy out the rest and leave. Seluk added: �It�s all strange. It�s not normal to have negotiations for six months about a contract. �They have been talking about small details all this time.� City�s technical director Txiki Begiristain allowed Toure to leave Barcelona for City when he was the Catalan giants� sporting director. And Seluk claimed even owner Sheikh Mansour�s personal intervention may not be enough. He added: �Maybe if the owner speaks to Yaya, maybe he doesn�t know the details.� The bombshell news will hit Mancini and spark a frenzy among Europe�s biggest clubs including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.