Yaya Touré

Sometimes we don't realize when we're in the game, for example.

When you're out of it, or maybe you stop it, or you retire, for example, like I am now, it's becoming difficult.

You know, you feel like, okay, how am I going to feel my journey or my day today?

You just have to wake up, just have a workout on, maybe work out in the gym.

Nothing, right?

And for me personally, sometimes I feel empty.

I need to do some stuff.

I need to be involved.

I need to, I don't know, I need to feel myself.

Because I've been doing this job for so many years, right?

I think for more than 50, 60 years I've been on a high level.

And now doing nothing is quite really, really difficult.

I never realised that.

And now I realise that a lot.

And that's like, it's not a shock.

I was not, to be honest, I was not that surprised.

I knew it was going to come in at some point, but not like that.

Because in my mind...

Two years or three years before I retire, I was like, okay, you know what?

When I finish football, I just go maybe in Maldives or maybe in Highland.