Yaya Toure is determined to one day manage a top Premier League team

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Yaya Toure hopes the assistant coach job at Standard Liege will help him move one step closer to managing in the Premier League in the future. </p>

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The 40-year-old, who lit up the top league as a player with Manchester City, has joined Carl Hoefkens' staff at the Belgian club after a spell coaching Tottenham Under-16s. </p>

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Toure enjoyed his time at Hotspur Way, admitting he would one day love to return there, but felt the time was right to go and coach first-team football. </p>

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He is happy to learn from his boss Hoefkens but has desires to become a manager in the future. </p>

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"One hundred per cent, that is my plan and idea." he said. </p>

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"For me I have to go step after step, I am on a learning journey. </p>

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"I am very open to everything, just carrying on what I am doing. </p>

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"Why not the Premier League? I don't know how long it is going to take, maybe sooner or later, for me I am always open for it. </p>

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"I know it's going to be a big challenge and coaches' jobs are becoming tougher and tougher. You see coaches surviving for a maximum four or five months. </p>

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"That is what it is now, that is the reality. </p>

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"For me, I am quite patient and I have to take my steps very carefully and in the right manner. That's why I am going to Belgium because I want to learn from top coaches like Carl, who has huge experience." </p>

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Toure, who previously held positions at Ukrainian side Olimpik Donetsk and Russian team Akhmat Grozny, has not ruled out the possibility of one day returning to Spurs. </p>

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"Tottenham did not stand in my way and they let me go and I think that was brilliant," he added. </p>

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"I would love to carry on in Tottenham because my belief and development was to try to work with the grown men. </p>

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"If the opportunity to go back was there then why not, because what Tottenham did for me was incredible, they allowed me to work there and develop as a coach and for what they did for me I will never be able to thank them enough. </p>

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"They opened the door for me and allowed me to express myself in the right manner and do the things I wanted to do. </p>

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"That is a real positive for me. Of course at the end of the day I move on but Tottenham is always going to be a great club and one that will always mean something to me." </p>

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Toure will first put his coaching skills to use on the launch of Amazon's Prime Day, as a Prime customer can buy a private coaching session for them and three friends. </p>

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He added: "The experience will be unmissable. For me it is very positive and I think this idea with Amazon is great. </p>

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"It is important we share experiences and talk to them about football and show them inside it and an understanding of it." </p>

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