Toure upset by CSKA claims as Doumbia denies making remarks

The 30-year-old admits he has been upset by
suggestions he misheard racist chants, while
his international team-mate also denied
making comments about the supporter abuse
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has hit
back at suggestions that chants from CSKA
Moscow fans during their recent Champions
League tie were misinterpreted.
UEFA president Michel Platini requested an
investigation into the alleged racist chants but
CSKA representative Michael Sanadze denied
any incidents of abuse.
However, the 30-year-old has reacted angrily
to suggestions he misheard the chants,
something implied by CSKA striker and fellow
Ivory Coast international Seydou Doumbia.
"I am not deaf," he remarked to BBC Afrique.
"We are all humans. It is not a nice feeling to
go and play a football match, to bring joy to
the people and to be called a monkey or to
hear monkey noises.
"I don't look like a monkey. Other people must
have seen it. Doumbia is a young brother.
Someone I admire who I have known a long
time - we come from the same country.
"I don't want to say things that will put him in
trouble but you can see a little bit the
manipulation around all this. It is so pathetic
and so sad to see things [racism] like that. I
am ashamed to still have to talk about this
subject.
"We know there are very large stakes for the
country [Russia] around the World Cup. But
let's leave Fifa and Uefa to do their work. Uefa
has decided to apply the rules - that's all we
want.
"A lot of things have been said about racism.
If today an organisation and supporters stray
from the straight path or slip up, the goal is to
see them straight again."
However, Doumbia insists he denied speaking
to the press after the Russian side were
consigned to a 2-1 defeat by City, rejecting
notions he accused Toure of exaggerating his
claims of racist abuse.
"I want to clarify my position after my Ivory
Coast team-mate and friend Yaya Toure
accused CSKA fans of racism," read a
statement on Doumbia's Facebook fanpage.
"I want to insist that I did not talk to any
journalist about these facts so none of the
quotes you read in the press came from me."