YAYA TOURE has created confusion over whether he is happy at Manchester City by dismissing but then endorsing some extraordinary, some might say ludicrous, claims from his agent.

Toure’s representative Dimitry Seluk said the £11 million a year Ivory Coast player found it particularly hurtful that no-one from the club wished him a happy 31st birthday during last week’s post-season trip to Abu Dhabi.

The outstanding midfielder, who signed a new-four year contract last season, first brushed off the suggestion that he could quit City but around an hour later tweeted: “Everything Dimitry said is true. He speaks for me. I will give an interview after World Cup to explain.”

Seluk said Toure was “very upset” and there was a “big possibility” he could leave the club this summer because he felt under-appreciated.

The grievance was soon exposed as untrue as media quickly picked up on a video published by the club last week, in which Toure was presented a birthday cake. City also tweeted a birthday message at the time.

That prompted Seluk to attempt to clarify his remarks by insisting those measures did not go far enough.

Seluk said: “None of them shook his hand on his birthday. It’s really sick you know. He got a cake but when it was Roberto Carlos’s birthday, the president of Anzhi gave him a Bugatti.

“I don’t expect City to present Yaya with a Bugatti, we only asked that they shook his hand and said, ‘We congratulate you.’ It is the minimum they must do when it is his birthday and the squad is all together.

“It is an important human relationship to shake hands and say ‘happy birthday’ but nobody did it to Yaya. It shows they don’t care about him.”

City have not commented but the speculation that could be created over his future will not be welcomed.