Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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:_ title challenge was over by April and, for a while, it seemed it best for player and club if Toure moved on.

City