In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Mid-May this year and staff at Manchester City had a problem. It was Yaya Toure’s birthday and they needed to ensure their star midfielder had a cake. Some people inside the club cared and others didn’t. Toure himself probably didn’t care. But City knew the media would be asking and it was, after all, best to have all bases covered. Toure got his cake. Three months ago, this was not untypical of Toure’s life in England.One of the great players of the Barclays Premier League had been worn down by too much football and his future at City was cast into doubt — not only because of his poor form, but by the persistent pronouncements of close friend and agent Dimitri Seluk.It looked like Yaya Toure would be leaving Manchester City in the summerFriend and agent Dimitry Seluk wanted his client to finish career elsewhereIt was easy to question Toure's state of mind in a disappointing last seasonToure was back to his best in the 3-0 rout at West Brom on Monday nightNow midfielder has his sights set on Chelsea: 'I know what I have to do' 
 Question:Nevertheless, _ understands now that his agent’s apparent desire for one last lucrative transfer was a hindrance last season and a conversation between them to that effect is believed to have taken place.
Yaya Toure

Disgraced former IMF chief and self-confessed 'sex addict' Dominique Strauss-Kahn has emerged as a favorite among voters to become the next president of France. The shamed economist has admitted to taking part in sordid global group sex sessions, and paid four million pounds to a New York hotel maid who accused him of rape. But a new survey has revealed he is still the second most popular left-wing potential president for the 2017 election - far ahead of current leader Francois Hollande. Pollsters Viavoice said 37 percent of those questioned thought Strauss-Kahn would be a good choice for the presidency, beaten only by the current prime minister Manuel Valls on 47 percent.Economist revealed as second most popular left-wing potential presidentShamed Strauss-Kahn is far ahead of current leader, Francoise HollandeAdmitted to having sordid sex sessions, while paid rape accuser £4mMore than one in three of those polled feel her would be a good president 
 Question:Strauss-_ was cleared of all charges after claiming in his defence that he never knew the girls up to 40 years his junior were prostitutes, and that he was just a 'simple swinger' whose only crime was giving in to his 'lustful urges'.
Kahn

The Massachusetts courtroom sketch artist whose unflattering depiction of embattled Patriots star Tom Brady became instant internet meme fodder is at it again. As Brady attended last-minute settlement talks between the NFL and its players union Monday, Jane Rosenberg again sketched the quarterback's famous face. The result? Not quite as ghoulish as last time and this go-round she got the thumbs up from Brady himself. However, after practicing for weeks, Rosenberg admitted it's not her best work and blamed a time crunch. Rosenberg told TMZ she 'had very little time' to sketch from a distance in conditions that were a 'court artist's nightmare'.Jane Rosenberg again sketched the quarterback's famous face and even got a wave of approval from Brady this timeRosenberg's ghoulish first sketch of Brady was widely ridiculed 
 Question:_'s not reading too much into it, saying he might just be 'a polite guy who waves to everybody'.

Jane Rosenberg

