Adebayor ready to dig in his heels at Tottenham

[thinktank]

By Matt Law

1:05PM GMT 18 Nov 2014

Emmanuel Adebayor is ready to dig his heels in and refuse to be forced out of Tottenham Hotspur in January.

Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino wants to sign at least one new forward in the next transfer window, with Southampton’s Jay Rodriguez his main target.

But Adebayor is determined he will not be the fall-guy and be pushed out of the exit door to accommodate Rodriguez or any other new signings.

Adebayor’s Spurs contract does not run out until 2016, which means the club would face the prospect of having to pay him to leave before that date.

Manchester City were forced to pay Adebayor after he joined Tottenham to cover the £175,000-a-week wages he earned at Eastlands.

That agreement stopped once the two years remaining on Adebayor’s City contract ran out this summer, but the 30-year-old still earns around £100,000-a-week at White Hart Lane which is unlikely to be matched elsewhere.

Adebayor is said to have struck up a good early relationship with Pochettino and was surprisingly made one of the club’s vice captains for the season.

But, like a lot of the team, the Togo international’s form has not been good and he was forced to explain perceived criticism of the club’s home support after the defeat to Stoke City.

There have also been accusations that Adebayor angered team-mates by laughing and joking with opposition players after the White Hart Lane loss to Newcastle United.

It remains to be seen how Adebayor will be treated by the Tottenham fans after the international break, but chairman Daniel Levy will be keen for the former Arsenal man not to become a political hot potato for the club again.

Levy was forced to intervene in a bitter row between Adebayor and former head coach Andre Villas-Boas, which started over the striker’s refusal to take off a baseball cap at a team meeting.

Having trained with the reserves, Adebayor was forced to stand on a raised platform and apologise for his behaviour to shocked team-mates by Villas-Boas.

The uneasy truce did not last long, however, and the fall-out with Adebayor was one of the reasons behind Villas-Boas being sacked last December.

Adebayor got on far better with Tim Sherwood, which resulted in a big upturn in form, and the pair famously saluted each other on the touchline in celebration of a goal.

Since the arrival of Pochettino, however, Adebayor has only scored two goals and was dropped to the substitutes’ bench for the Stoke game as crowd favourite Harry Kane was given a rare Premier League chance.

Kane was on target twice for England Under-21s against France on Monday night, which leaves Pochettino another difficult decision over his strikers for the trip to Hull City on Sunday.

Roberto Soldado may be considerably easier to force out of the Spurs exit door in January than Adebayor, with David Moyes thought to be interested in taking the Spaniard to Real Sociedad.

Meanwhile, Levy and other senior Tottenham officials will meet representatives of the club’s Supporters Trust on Thursday about the new stadium plans and proposed move to Milton Keynes.

While Levy has come under fire from fans in recent weeks over his running of the club, it is the venue for Spurs’ home games in the 2017/18 season, while the new £400 million stadium is being built, that has caused most controversy.

Trust members have submitted their concerns and questions to be passed to Levy and he will address them in the meeting, which is expected to take place at Tottenham’s Enfield training base.

West Ham United have ruled out any prospect of Spurs sharing the Olympic Stadium in the 2016/17 season, but, intriguingly, the possibility of the two rivals ground-sharing in the 2017/18 campaign remains up for discussion.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-and-refuses-to-be-forced-out-in-January.html

 

[longtimespur]

Seems like he's after his pay-out again.

 

[whitechina]

I know many will not agree but Spurs put the contract in front of him for him to sign. I wish he actually 'earned' his wages by running, sweating blood for our team and by just looking interested. Contract commitments are two way for sure- Ade plays for the money and basically takes the piss. But I'd like one week of his pay a year- it's more than I'll ever get (and I'm good at what I do, always put in maximum effort and never give up!)

 

[Krafty]

'Adebayor is determined.....' - a likely story!

Seriously though, if someone offers him a big enough pay packet he'll hapily go, maybe Turkey or the Middle East where his wage wont be taxed so highly.

A bigger issue might be how much we/Levy demand for him. If it's £5mill or less, then you might as well let him leave on a free so a suitor can budget bigger wages/signing on fee and tempt him away. If it's more than £5mill then we might struggle to get anyone interested.

 

[14/04/91]

The ACN runs from mid-Jan too, just an added complication.
Fully expect Adebayor to still be a Spurs player on 1st Feb.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

January transfer window is coming. Must play well.

 

[Kendall]

January transfer window is coming. Must play well.

Hopefully Bob will start playing well before the final window before his contract is up.

 

[kaz Hirai]

AVB had the right line of thinking, and he was hated for it.

and now he's the vice captain, AVB spinning in his grave!

 

[Kendall]

AVB had the right line of thinking, and he was hated for it.

and now he's the vice captain, AVB spinning in his grave!

I think we should've bought a proper striker to compete with Adebayor a long time ago, preferably before we bought La Dud, but AVB wasn't right to leave him out at all. Goaldebayor proved that.

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Hopefully Bob will start playing well before the final window before his contract is up.

Soldado is at least putting the effort in, despite it not quite happening for him.

 

[longtimespur]

I think we should've bought a proper striker to compete with Adebayor a long time ago, preferably before we bought La Dud, but AVB wasn't right to leave him out at all. Goaldebayor proved that.

He's not proving it again this season, only when he feels like it IMHO

 

[Kendall]

Soldado is at least putting the effort in, despite it not quite happening for him.

Not sure if genuinely putting effort in or just cute baby clothes.

 

[Kendall]

He's not proving it again this season, only when he feels like it IMHO

Not getting the service.

Poor Addy

 

[TaoistMonkey]

Not sure if genuinely putting effort in or just cute baby clothes.

 

[kaz Hirai]

I think we should've bought a proper striker to compete with Adebayor a long time ago, preferably before we bought La Dud, but AVB wasn't right to leave him out at all. Goaldebayor proved that.

he only proved that when he had something to prove! that's the mans problem, when he feels he has proved his point to whatever ex manager he puts in 20% effort.

I can't say for certain but I'd be fairly sure that AVB would've have begged for another striker to go with soldado and for Ade to be sold but was probably told nope, use the striker you left out.

Lets not forget AVB showed great faith in Ade in his first season over Defoe and got an extremely bad return, as well as him pissing about during the ACN

bad idea signing him on a perm

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Very, very bad article. As previously mentioned by someone, the ACN will make it exceptionally difficult to ship him out even if we wanted to. Added to the fact anyone selling us a replacement will add 'ACN desperation tax' and it's just too many negatives stacking up.

 

[dagraham]

I think we should've bought a proper striker to compete with Adebayor a long time ago, preferably before we bought La Dud, but AVB wasn't right to leave him out at all. Goaldebayor proved that.

This. AVB cut off his nose to spite his face. Talk of making Ade stand on a platform and grovel after not taking his baseball cap off sounds extremely far fetched (and pretty damn funny tbh - what next? make the other players throw custard pies in his face?). However, the smart thing to do would have been to humour Ade until we had bought another striker/strikers to allow us to let him go and then got rid.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Not quite sure that this thread needed to turn into another Soldado v Adebayor thread. @Kendall did you really needed to make a comment about Soldado with absolutely no provocation or previous mention of him in this thread. This article in no way compares the two, it merely says that we want to sell him because he's been shit, and he won't leave because he's a shit. The only mention is makes of Soldado is that he'd be easier to get rid of, which hardly gives rise to you turning another thread into an argument about which is better.

 

[mpickard2087]

Redknapp and Sherwood played to his (and, you can argue the team's) strengths. Made him the focal point that others played off and got him involved plenty in the game.

AVB and Poch though seem to expect the strikers to 'burst into life' and suddenly impact the game, which isn't his style. He isn't some ultra-clinical striker that will go all game feeding off scraps and then take the chance. Others being the focal point that the play goes through such as Lamela/Eriksen currently leave him wandering around and looking lost.

 

[Kendall]

Not quite sure that this thread needed to turn into another Soldado v Adebayor thread. @Kendall did you really needed to make a comment about Soldado with absolutely no provocation or previous mention of him in this thread. This article in no way compares the two, it merely says that we want to sell him because he's been shit, and he won't leave because he's a shit. The only mention is makes of Soldado is that he'd be easier to get rid of, which hardly gives rise to you turning another thread into an argument about which is better.

Nah.