A Novel Way to Sign Emmanuel Adebayor

[PaddoSpurs]

I believe Adebayor has been a key reason of our success this year and it is vital that we retain him. He really puts in and seems to be really enjoy being at Spurs and apparently gets on well with his team mates.


A possible way is to keep Adebayor at Spurs after this year is to think outside the square.


I recall a previous note about a significant proportion of his salary is returned to Togo as aid or similar.


Why not try and establish a youth football academy in Togo - the Tottenham Adebayor Academy. Engage Adebayor as patron while he still plays and once he retires he can have a more active role. Try and establish it with a high school and a boarding house so that you improve the life of those selected with education and diet as well as developing their football skills.


All kids enrolled in the academy would need to sign a contract that gives Tottenham a first and last option to sign them. Perhaps as well the Tottenham Academy team should also visit each year to train aside them and play a friendly game. This would be priceless experience for them as well.


If Adebayor is on 175,000 per week with half paid by us then perhaps we can pay him 100,000 and commit 40,000 per week to the academy. If this is a 5 year commitment then the total cost is 10 million. If we uncover just 1 player then this is good value – look at the very average calibre of players with a 10m transfer fee. Also we keep Adebayor and give him a post football career.


I think it is a win win situation.

 

[dimiSpur]

He can fuck off if he doesn't want to sign for Spurs. I reject the notion of convincing this bloke to sign for Spurs by giving to charities or setting up academies to please him and his wallet. If he wants to suggest £100k a week (a sum we can reasonably pay him) is too little for him, then he can go play for the rich billionaires.

I resent the fans that beg players to play for this club. Same with Berbatov a few years back. If they don't wanna play, they can do one.

 

[garyhopkins]

He can fuck off if he doesn't want to sign for Spurs. I reject the notion of convincing this bloke to sign for Spurs by giving to charities or setting up academies to please him and his wallet. If he wants to suggest £100k a week (a sum we can reasonably pay him) is too little for him, then he can go play for the rich billionaires.

I resent the fans that beg players to play for this club. Same with Berbatov a few years back. If they don't wanna play, they can do one.

Although I wouldn't use the same language, I concur. Adebayor is good, but he is not City-wages good. If he scored in every game I'd say he was. He gets the chances, but doesn't. There has to be a forward out there who'd happily play for us, take 75K a week and do a similar job.

 

[Sweatybum]

That's a good idea Paddo, however although he's been ok, I wouldn't say Adebayor has set the place alight this season. I used to fear him when he wore the red shirt of our rivals, and even in that famous 5-1 Carling Cup demolition of Woolwich, when he came on I was fearing for our lead.

We have to work on him psychologically and make him WANT to join us permanently. Instead of begging him and fawning over him we should publicly put our feelers out for other strikers and let him know that Tottenham Hotspur Football Club can compete at the top of the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League with or without Emmanuel Adebayor. If he wants to sign permanently then fine, if he doesn't then it's his loss!

 

[EastLondonYid]

Adebayor is one of the reasons we are where we are, but if 100,000 per week isn't enough for him to play in this wonderful team where he is respected and plays every week then i agree we should let him walk, its a very dangerous road when you give one player silly money, we have so many top players that will demand the same ....and alot of other clubs that will pay them , and we certainly can't put our club in that financial position just to keep a greedy player.

 

[guy]

Agreed, IMO no players are worth 225k a week, especially not adebayor. If it were messi we were talking about, maybe, but it aint

I like the idea in general, think its well thought out and a very good way to bypass tax laws for a player wishing to give back to his community (but/also charitable donations are also tax deductible, at least in Aus where I am).

I also dont like the thought of setting a crazy precedent like this also, other players will ask for samelar terms, and its just not on.

 

[spursphil]

In 1956-57 a Manchester United and England player would have earned £744 in wages, £72 in league match bonuses, £45 in league talent money, £60 in European Cup bonuses, £150 in accrued benefit, £80 from Provident Fund credit, £56 in FA Cup bonuses, £50 in FA Cup talent money, £400 from international match fees, and £20 from inter-League match fee. A total of £1,677. For the year.

In today's money that is the equivalent of about £75,000 a year. Its clear todays player wages are ruining the game. Today its like a wages arms race.

 

[guy]

Wow, astonishingly ridiculous.

I dont think it can go on forever if football, at some point in the next 5 yrs the world of football will see sense and have salary cap rules or something similar introduced

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

A novel way for us to sign Adebayor? I've got one.

For the boy himself to realise he's not worth £170,000 per week and to take the £75,000/£80,000 we offer, and for him to be grateful he's getting that!

That would be extremely novel.

 

[Qualsonic]

And when he leaves...?

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

When he leaves I suppose he'll go rot training with Man City's youth team and we'll move on and try to find someone else that could be suitable.

I'll be disappointed, sure. But we aren't going to pay more than we can afford on the boy, and nor should we.

Having watched him all season he's not worth more than £70,000-£80,000 per week. He misses so many chances and he's offside more than Defoe!

And I'm a big fan of the boy. I'd love to keep him.

 

[Damian99]

Keep him until the end of the season, he has been a great addition. But for the wages he commands, for one we can't afford but i would rather have a striker with a little more fire power. Thats not to say he hasn't been a massive improvement for the team and his forward play apart from that has been great.

 

[SubZero]

Not only is he not (nor is any other person kicking a leather sphere for a living) worth 175.000 pounds a week, but it's sending all kinds of wrong signals to young players everywhere. How can we expect full commitment, motivation and will to improve when such wages are floating around? I mean, if you sign a contract with, say City, no matter what you do or how you play, you will probably never going to get higher wages anywhere in the world.

The biggest problem however, isn't about how much the very top players in the game earn, it's how the pay demands of second or even third tier players rise accordingly. Even City's reserves earn much more than most other professionals everywhere. You are at the zenith of your (monetary) career regardless if you don't perform a competitive kick for an entire season. Even then the player has the power, and can often pack up and leave without the club having a say at all. This is wrong, and skews the game totally.

I know that they have short careers and all, but when you see youngsters driving Ferraris without ever having achieved anything in the game at all, something is very wrong. It's like getting a full retirement package before cashing your first paycheck. Perhaps loyalty bonuses after so many games or maybe years would be a better solution than paying up zillions before a players even got his own locker? I don't know.

Anyway, I would be happy to sign Adebayor, but if he isn't willing to conform to our wage policy then feck him. He's no Pele.

 

[nailsy]

I agree with everyone saying he's not worth £180,000 a week or whatever money he's on, but how many of us would take a huge pay cut to move jobs if they didn't have to? If we're going to have a go at anyone it should be Man City for bringing in such ridiculous wages in the first place, not Adebayor who just wants what he was promised.

Adebayor is helping us to our best ever season in the league, which should make it easier to attract other cheaper star players that can fill the void when he leaves.

 

[sim0n]

this player has performed well so far this season, but let's not go OTT. there's been much written here regarding what he's "worth" and even pointless (IMO) comparisons to wages for players in the past. it's just simple supply and demand,... he's worth what the highest price a team is willing to pay him. no matter which team that may be... man city bought him and paid what they paid, now we have him on loan and pay for part of that. I think he will play the season out, and successfully so, for Spurs and "go back" to man city.

then, in the summer PSG will fulfill the supply and demand role of upping the stakes with their new funny money.

whether you like the wages he'll be on there or not, he'll be paid EXACTLY what he's worth just like he is now,... whatever the highest bidder offers.

simples :razz:

 

[brasil_spur]

I don't think it's a good idea, and also as far as i'm aware there's no confirmation that the money he gives back to his village/town in Togo is used towards the development of football players. I'm sure it goes more on infrastructure and food than anything else.

If we want to sign him then i think we need to agree a sensible wage with him, say £120k per week, agree a contract length, say 3 years and then pay him £70k per week with an upfront signing fee to cover the difference, which would be £8m.

In fact we'd probably need to hide it better than that, so it would make more sense to pay city the extra £8m on top of what they want to sell him for (for arguments sake say £10m) - so we sign him from City for £18m and pay him £70k per week as far as the press is concerned. Then have City pay him an £8m leaving bonus to cover his wages for the next 3 years.

That way it looks more legit to our players.

But structuring a deal like that could be tricky, plus will Ade be worth paying that much for?

I suppose it all depends on what City want for him???

 

[kitchen]

If he still demands that sort of salary in the summer we'll cut our losses and get Rossi I reckon. Ade is great and has everything to his game but the finishing, which as many have said makes him not worth the money...

 

[AngerManagement]

If he still demands that sort of salary in the summer we'll cut our losses and get Rossi I reckon. Ade is great and has everything to his game but the finishing, which as many have said makes him not worth the money...

What makes you think that?

Rossi, whilst being a great player, isn't really similar to Ade at all

cutting our losses with Ade would leave us needing a player who can lead the line and link play

Much as I would like to see us sign Rossi, I don't think us buying Ade or not would make much difference to that.
Rossi could replace Defoe or even Pav but if we lost Ade we would still need to find another striker who could offer us what he brings to the table.

 

[dontcallme]

Not really a novel idea as someone starts a thread with a similar suggestion every week. Yesterday a thread was opened suggesting we pay the extra wages straight to charities in Togo of Adebayor's choice..

Sadly English football received a huge influx of cash when Sky started. This should have been great for British football. We could have had much improved stadiums, reasonably priced match day tickets, new source of investment into our youth which is still sadly still behind top nations on the continent and stabilised clubs financially.

Unfortunately, like always, greed stopped something good from happening and all the money went to the players. Season tickets are too expensive for the average fan and clubs are in more debt than ever before.

It's hard for any club to take a stand and refuse high wages as they then fall behind their competitors.

I don't blame Adebayor, hate game not the players, as it's human nature to do what the players are doing when given the opportunity to double what is already a ridiculous salary.

 

[sim0n]

What makes you think that?

Rossi, whilst being a great player, isn't really similar to Ade at all

cutting our losses with Ade would leave us needing a player who can lead the line and link play

Much as I would like to see us sign Rossi, I don't think us buying Ade or not would make much difference to that.
Rossi could replace Defoe or even Pav but if we lost Ade we would still need to find another striker who could offer us what he brings to the table.

yep, and qualifying for the CL will ensure Spurs have a much longer list of "lead the line" strikers to choose from. I agree that rossi is not the same type of striker and IMHO could not fill that role adequately. not sure if ade will be on that list if his wage demands remain Himalayan, but I DO KNOW that bobby zamora SHOULD NOT be on that list :razz: