even this made sense now, Day 1 AET (After Episode Ten), yakov was most likely there in the gpf banquet and saw the pole dancing, the drunken grinding and the ballroom dancing, the “be my coach, victor!” and all of victor’s reactions to yuuri. he told victor this because he thought victor took the season off and flew to japan because of some international booty call via the viral stay close to me video.
no fucking wonder yakov was pissed at victor. from his perspective, his best student basically changed his career path and started coaching yuuri only because victor wanted to be in yuuri’s pants.

