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Yaya Toure wants to end his career at Manchester City…and say a proper farewell to the fans with a trophy.

The Blues midfield ace is set to be offered a new one-year deal, with his current contract expiring next month, but he may have to take a sizeable pay cut to stay.

But Toure insists that the money is not an issue and hinted that he wants City to be his last club before retirement.

With the season over, Toure's representatives are set to thrash out a possible extension, but the player was very positive about the prospect of staying.

Asked if he will be here next season Toure replied: “It’s the club where I stayed the longest.

“The fans have been so great to me and I always feel delighted to play for these fans because all my career I’ve always said that I always have to give them something special.

“But we didn’t deliver and that’s a shame. But what we have to do is we have to wait.”

Toure saw Pablo Zabaleta say an emotional farewell to the City fans at the Etihad Stadium last week, knowing that it could also have been his final home appearance.

He says he wants the chance to say a real goodbye to the supporters, and ideally that would be at the end of next season, with a trophy to show them.

“Football is strange,” he said, and then expressed his desire not to just sidle off into the sunset this summer.

“I hope I will not do that. I want to say a proper goodbye.

“I want to be honest with the fans because those guys, for all the time I’ve been playing, those fans have been so special and the club has been good to me.

“I want to go on until the end and the best end is going to be to stop football with City. That would be the best way for me.

“To be honest, to see me in another shirt would be quite difficult but we’ll see. We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.”

Toure even hinted that he accepts he may not play as much next season, even though he has been a virtual fixture in the team since returning from his exile in November.

With Ilkay Gundogan expected to return from injury this summer and Guardiola possibly in the market for another holding midfielder, Toure knows he will face a scrap for minutes on te pitch.

He says: “I’ve always been positive even when I was in a difficult situation.

“People were questioning me and saying you can move in the summer, but I never listened.

“I just believed in myself and I know the fans believe in me because they know I am capable of doing something special.

“If I have ten or 20 minutes I will always do my best.

“Sometimes it’s quite difficult when you go out for a couple of games but I understand all of that.

“I have to fight even with the guys who are younger but I have to show them I am hungry as well, I want to play.

“At the end of the day, it’s the manager who decides.”

Toure believes that working with Guardiola's fitness conditioner Lorenzo Buenaventura and nutritionist Silvia Tremoleda has helped to give him a new lease of life.

And he said Guardiola had been helpful and sympathetic when he had a crisis in his personal life.

“He’s been great to me because him and Lorenzo and Silvia try to take care of my body and try to put me physically in good shape,” he said.

“I had a bad moment, a difficult situation in the family but I think we owe Pep and that’s why that guy is so important. Not only the manager but the people around him. The top guys helped me a lot. “I’m 34 but I’m still running. I saw a stat and was quite surprised.

“When you’re hungry to play, age is just a number. I always play with my feeling. If I’m tired I’m going to say ‘OK, I’m done’.

“On Sunday, when the game was finished I was thinking about the next game but they said ‘The league is finished’ and I said ‘Oh, that’s a shame, we’ll have to wait for next season then!’”