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

Tampa, Florida (CNN) -- With Texas Gov. Rick Perry threatening to cement his standing atop the national polls, his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination aggressively sought to undermine his conservative credentials on Monday during the first-ever CNN/Tea Party debate in Florida. Perry repeatedly found himself in the crosshairs, as the field of candidates took turns attacking his positions on illegal immigration, Social Security, and his controversial 2007 push to vaccinate Texas schoolgirls against human papillomavirus, a common sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose standing among Republicans has slipped dramatically since Perry entered the race, said she was "offended" by Perry's executive order, which included an opt-out provision for parents who did not want the vaccine.NEW: Perry finds himself in the crosshairs as GOP candidates attack his positionsBachmann accuses Perry of helping a drug company through a vaccination orderRomney on Perry: Being dealt aces does not make a good poker playerPerry calls for Social Security reform but drops "Ponzi scheme" label 
 Question:_ and Perry squared off on the vaccination situation, with Bachmann saying, "We cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order there's a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this."
Michele Bachmann

Washington (CNN) It's still undecided whether Donald Trump will continue to support forced deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the US, his campaign manager said Sunday. But Trump himself insisted Monday, "I'm not flip-flopping." "I'm not flip flopping," the Republican presidential nominee told Fox News on the issue Monday. "We want to come up with a fair but firm process. Fair but firm." He did not, however, provide any specifics or elaborate on his position further. When asked by repeated questioning by CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" on Sunday whether Trump stood behind the idea of a deportation task force, Kellyanne Conway, Trump's new campaign manager, responded, "to be determined."Donald Trump was reported to have backed off the idea of deporting millions, in a meetingThat stood in sharp contrast with what has been a central theme of the GOP nomiee's campaign 
 Question:_ played a clip of Trump speaking about a deportation force last fall, saying it would be done "humanely," repeatedly asking if that was still the position of the campaign or whether Trump was backing off.

Dana Bash