In his new role as a UEFA Technical Observer, former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was on duty at Manchester City's Champions League win at FC Copenhagen this week.
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The regret normally associated with birthday cakes is when you greedily stuff your face with too much of it. But in Yaya Toure's case, it came when he didn't get enough.
Manchester City had just secured their second Premier League title two days prior. Things couldn't have been better on the blue side of Manchester as they once again wrestled control back off neighbours Manchester United. Then, two days later, a bizarre controversy broke out.
It all kicked off as Toure's agent, Dimitri Seluk, claimed City had not appropriately marked the midfield lynchpin's birthday, sparking wild speculation over a missing birthday cake. Despite the ridiculous scenario, it seriously threatened his stay at the Etihad.
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Toure was actually wished a happy birthday by the club's Twitter account while he received a cake, as well as a song, as the team flew out for a post-season trip to Abu Dhabi, but that didn't quell Seluk's anger. "None of them shook his hand on his birthday. It's really sick," Seluk told BBC Sport. "He got a cake but when it was Roberto Carlos' birthday, the president of Anzhi gave him a Bugatti.
"I don't expect City to present Yaya with a Bugatti, we only asked that they shook his hand and said 'we congratulate you'. It is the minimum they must do when it is his birthday and the squad is all together.
"I hear one newspaper has written that City congratulated him from Twitter but this is a joke. It is better they don't put anything on Twitter if they are not saying anything to him. The club's owners ate a 100kg cake after winning the Premier League this season but when
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