Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has claimed that Kolo Toure’s failed drugs test is a result of taking a diet pill belonging to his wife.<\/p>\n
The Manchester City defender was suspended on Thursday pending further investigation after testing positive for a specified substance.<\/p>\n
Wenger has spoken with the former Arsenal captain since the news broke and revealed what Toure had taken during a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n
“He wants to control his weight a little bit because that’s where he has some problems and he took the product off his wife,” said the Arsenal boss.<\/p>\n
“Never trust your wife! That is how he was caught.”<\/p>\n
Toure could face a lengthy ban and is currently suspended from playing for City.<\/p>\n
Wenger signed the Ivory Coast international from domestic club Mimosas in 2002 and he went on to make 326 appearances in seven seasons with the Gunners.<\/p>\n
Toure also became captain before making a \u00a316million move to City in July 2009 and Wenger paid tribute to the 29-year-old’s character, insisting there was no malicious intent on his part.
Honest living<\/p>\n
“I think it is a mistake,” he added. “He was not cautious enough. I don’t think there’s a desire there to do something wrong and hide it.<\/p>\n
“It is a complete surprise because I had Kolo Toure here for years, I brought him here.<\/p>\n
“He is a boy who has a clean life. He’s very honest living, always at home, a family man, and I don’t suspect him at all to have taken drugs to enhance his performances.<\/p>\n
“I just think it is a mistake by forgetting to ask, ‘Can I take that?’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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