Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini insists he is not bothered by Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho’s mind games.

The pair have history dating back to their time in Spain, where the Portuguese replaced Pellegrini at Real Madrid after finishing second to Barcelona with a record number of points.

Mourinho announced “Second place is just the first loser” before adding: “If Madrid were to fire me, I wouldn’t go to Malaga. I’d go to a top-level team in Italy or England.”

Now both will come face-to-face again in England for the first time on Sunday but Pellegrini is not interested in revisiting past disagreements. “I never get involved in the moment and I will not get involved now,” he said.

“I don’t know him. He worked in Spain, I worked in another club. We played Real Madrid against Malaga. Nothing more, I don’t have any complaint about him.”

City midfielder Yaya Toure has hit out at CSKA Moscow’s claims that their fans did not engage in racist chanting in Wednesday night’s Champions League encounter, saying: “I am not deaf.”

CSKA have claimed nothing untoward happened, but Toure said: “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.”

CSKA forward and fellow Ivorian Seydou Doumbia was quoted by the Russian club as saying that Toure had “exaggerated” events. However Toure suggested that Doumbia had been put in an uncomfortable position by his employers.

“Doumbia is a young brother,” Toure said. “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.”

Doumbia denied making any criticism of Toure on Friday, saying: “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.”