The 10 Times Lionel Messi Utterly Embarrassed A Great Player 5

7. Messi sold a dream and Yaya Toure bought it. 

Yaya Toure used to be good at defending. No really, he was. Back in his Barcelona days he was just about the most promising all-round midfielder in the world, meaning he could attack just as well as he could defend. 

At Manchester City, that balance has apparently skewed towards the offensive side of things.

We have a feeling that when he went in for this slide tackle he was dreaming of making the kind of challenge he used to pride himself on, and that he came out of it with a new appreciation for the word “naive.”