Definition: 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].
Input: Yevhen Konoplyanka was the subject of serious attention from Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur for almost two years before he decided to join Sevilla in July, and the Ukrainian has expressed his delight at heading to Spain rather than England. Konoplyanka is insistent that he made the right choice despite his team's poor league start and the former Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk man has lambasted the Premier League on Ukrainian television. Quoted in AS, the 25-year-old slammed the English game before suggesting that La Liga is the best in the world. 'If I was two-and-a-half metres tall and didn't know how to control a ball then I may have gone to England, but here [in Spain], the football's more technical,' he said. 'It's the best [league in the world].'Yevhen Konoplyanka joined Sevilla from Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in JulyUkrainian is insistent he made the right choice despite team's poor startHe believes La Liga boasts much more quality than the Premier LeagueYet while attracting attention from Liverpool and Tottenham he always maintained his interest in moving to England 
 Question:However, _'s quotes seem to contradict his previous assertions, as in May he told Sportske Novosti: 'I am sorry I didn't join Liverpool when they wanted me [in the January 2014 transfer window].'

Yevhen Konoplyanka