Yaya Toure's agent came out with a pretty shallow reason for his client being unhappy at Man City - that being the club forgot to properly celebrate his birthday (though he did get a cake).
So of course there was some reaction to this amusing news in Twitter, sparking off the creation of #ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity.
Here are the best tweets from the hashtag so far.
#ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity - To fulfil a lifelong deam of forming a Norwegian Hip-Hop duo with Andre 3000 called Toure Andre Flow
— Johnathan Jones (@HiJKJones) May 20, 2014
To focus on his music career #ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity pic.twitter.com/vK9DTbQ6UX
— Joel Henderson (@Joelhenderson93) May 20, 2014
He's got unfinished business in New York #ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity pic.twitter.com/RnWYUbgxWa
— Betfair Sportsbook (@Betfair) May 20, 2014
He's just adopted a small Argentinian boy and wants to spend more time with him #ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity pic.twitter.com/odO9sP0i3q
— Betfair Sportsbook (@Betfair) May 20, 2014
#ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity Premier League trophy tried to kill him and he can't bear to be around it another year https://t.co/uwGD85hhge
— Kumar (@Lukekiani) May 20, 2014
#ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity He wants to join & help Daenerys Targaryen on her long quest to rule & conquer the 7 Kingdoms.
— Danny Watkins (@dannywatty) May 20, 2014
He wasn't allowed to take the club gerbil home in the Easter holidays #ReasonsYaYaWantsToLeaveCity
— TerrenceTheCat (@TerrenceTheCat) May 20, 2014
James Milner used lava in 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' #ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity pic.twitter.com/AItawmYsqq
— Premier League Jokes (@PL_Jokes) May 20, 2014
His request to rename Yo-Yos in Manchester to Ya-Yas was declined.
#ReasonsYayaWantsToLeaveCity— GTFWO.com - Dubai (@GTFWO) May 20, 2014
Reporter: Heard you are leaving as no Man City player passed to you
Yaya: Yes, No one passed the parcel to me
— Sean Lattimore (@SeanLattimore) May 20, 2014
