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Yaya Toure has been humiliated by his omission from Manchester City’s Champions League squad.

City boss Pep Guardiola dropped the bombshell decision on Friday – without giving the 33-year-old Ivory Coast international the courtesy of telling him that he wasn’t being included in his 21-man selection for Europe.

Toure’s Barcelona-based agent Dimitri Seluk revealed to Sunday Mirror Sport that Toure remains committed to seeing out the final year of his £220,000-a-week contract at the Etihad despite the snub.

But Seluk believes that Guardiola will owe the midfielder at apology if he fails to make City European champions this season.

Seluk said: “It is Pep’s decision and we must respect that.

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“If he wins the Champions League for City this season then I will travel to England and I will say on television that Pep Guardiola is the best manager in the world.

“But if City don’t win the Champions League then I hope that Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya.

“This is Pep’s decision and we must respect it.

“Yaya is a professional and so he will do everything he is asked to do.

“Perhaps Pep will think he is good enough to play in the final 10 minutes of a League Cup game against a third division team – and, yes, I am joking.

“But what I can tell you is that Yaya will spend the season at City. He will not be leaving in January. He hopes that he will get the chance to prove himself.”

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Toure and new £17million keeper Claudio Bravo are the only members of the City squad to have won the Champions League.

The midfielder was part of Guardiola’s Barcelona team when they beat Manchester United in Rome in 2009.

But Guardiola sanctioned his £24million departure to City a year later and Toure feared that his arrival at the Etihad would bring an end to his stay in Manchester.

Toure rejected offers from China that would have given him an increase on his City wages, while there was also interest from Italy, but after talks with Guardiola he decided to complete the final 12 months of his contract.

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It is understood that Guardiola agonised over whether to leave out Toure or injury-hit captain Vincent Kompany.

But the Belgian got the nod after coming through a behind-closed-doors game during the week.

Now Toure, a four-time African Footballer of the Year, faces being frozen out at a club where he should be remembered as a legend.

It is common knowledge at City that his arrival was the catalyst for the most successful period in the Blues’ history, with Toure playing a huge role in two title wins, an FA Cup success and two League Cup triumphs.