Adebayor

[nightgoat]

He never played well for AVB. He was fantastic under redknapp for a whole season, and was great for Tim for half a season.

He wasn't great for half a season though. AVB dropped him (quite rightly), Sherwood recalled him and he scored regularly for about two months. Having proved his point to AVB and secured undroppable status with Tactics Tim he went back to being an ineffective, lazy so and so and only scored a couple of tap ins against Sunderland (one of which he booted in a Kane shot that was going over the line anyway) until a penalty on the last day of the season.

 

[lillywhites61]

Like a bad dream that wont go away!!

 

[nightgoat]

Ade generally did well for us, and was fantastic in that team with VdV, Modric, Parker and Bale. Gets a lot of stick that he simply doesn't deserve.

Players such as Pavluchenko for example made no effort to learn english, clearly didn't care for the club, had training ground bust ups, never showed any consistency on the pitch and didn't even break a sweat in training yet people never gave him much stick, and infact would often sing his name as he sat on the bench. I've never quite understood the criticism adebayor gets...

Here is an interesting article on him

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...manuel-adebayor-and-why-youre-wrong-judge-him

How many times did you watch Pavlyuchenko in training?

Incidentally, Pavlyuchenko and Adebayor had identical scoring records for Spurs - 42 goals in 113 appearances.

 

[C0YS]

He wasn't great for half a season though. AVB dropped him (quite rightly), Sherwood recalled him and he scored regularly for about two months. Having proved his point to AVB and secured undroppable status with Tactics Tim he went back to being an ineffective, lazy so and so and only scored a couple of tap ins against Sunderland (one of which he booted in a Kane shot that was going over the line anyway) until a penalty on the last day of the season.

hey he still scored 14 in 25 very impressive.

 

[C0YS]

How many times did you watch Pavlyuchenko in training?

Incidentally, Pavlyuchenko and Adebayor had identical scoring records for Spurs - 42 goals in 113 appearances.

Taken from Harry Redknapp
http://www.givemesport.com/926206-h...pavlyuchenkos-first-training-session-at-spurs

 

[E17yid]

Worst signing ever in the history of this club.

Selling Daws and buying Fazio wasn't that long ago, mate. I'm surprised you've forgotten.

 

[nightgoat]

Taken from Harry Redknapp
http://www.givemesport.com/926206-h...pavlyuchenkos-first-training-session-at-spurs

Harry Redknapp, the most reliable source in football, ever.

 

[benny]

42 goals in 113 games does not a worst signing make, no matter how much we paid him or how apparently disruptive he could be.

He was superb in 2011/12 and that half season under Dim Tim.

He was a great loan signing for us, in 2011/12.

As a permanent signing he was pretty bad. In my view, I wouldn't say the worst as he did have one spell under Sherwood that was pretty good and there wasn't a huge transfer fee involved, just the large wages, but certainly in the worst 5.

That said, I still can't believe Levy / the board sanctioned the signing of him after firing Redknapp and having AVB as the coach (another poor signing).

 

[Tucker]

http://www.football365.com/news/adebayor-discusses-his-spells-at-arsenal-and-spurs



I really disliked him towards the end of his time with us, but this makes me like him a tiny bit more.

I always liked Ade. He got some really unnecessary stick from our fans, and frankly I think race had a big part to play in it. The guy clearly had some big unresolved mental health issues after what happened to the Togo team at the AFCON. He had some truly amazing performances for us, games where he was completely unplayable. Other times he looked like a fart trapped in a coke can.

We've had plenty of other players who didn't perform half as well as Ade did for us but didn't get half the stick. The likes of Soldado and Bentley spring to mind.

 

[SlotBadger]

We've had plenty of other players who didn't perform half as well as Ade did for us but didn't get half the stick. The likes of Soldado spring to mind.

I think the fact Soldado is a humble and caring guy played a huge part in that.

If Soldado had signed at the beginning of last season (pretending he was the age at which we actually signed him), I'd like to think he would have been a totally different player for us.

 

[dondo]

I always liked Ade. He got some really unnecessary stick from our fans, and frankly I think race had a big part to play in it. The guy clearly had some big unresolved mental health issues after what happened to the Togo team at the AFCON. He had some truly amazing performances for us, games where he was completely unplayable. Other times he looked like a fart trapped in a coke can.

We've had plenty of other players who didn't perform half as well as Ade did for us but didn't get half the stick. The likes of Soldado spring to mind.

Race really??The fact that the last season and a half he strolled around the pitch looking like he didn't care had nothing to do with it?

The fans pick up on things like effort and who gives a shit, that's why no matter how crap soldado was the fans stuck with him because he tryed hard to make it work

 

[Navin R Johnson]

I always liked Ade. He got some really unnecessary stick from our fans, and frankly I think race had a big part to play in it. The guy clearly had some big unresolved mental health issues after what happened to the Togo team at the AFCON. He had some truly amazing performances for us, games where he was completely unplayable. Other times he looked like a fart trapped in a coke can.

We've had plenty of other players who didn't perform half as well as Ade did for us but didn't get half the stick. The likes of Soldado spring to mind.

I can't begin to understand what he went through during the attack on the team bus so I totally go along with the unresolved mental issues but to say that you think race had a part to play in fan's dislike of him is just wrong.

 

[mark87]

He was a waste of a talent, if he had his head screwed on properly he would have scored sooooo many goals than he did. He did played well for us at times, just a shame about his attitude and if he and poch are genuinely still in contact then what happened behind the scenes couldn't have been as bad as we've been made to believe.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Only a matter of time before he signs for West Ham!

 

[IfiHadTheWings]

In a dark corner somewhere...Emmanuel Adebayor is learning Chinese.

 

[Spurger King]

Race really??The fact that the last season and a half he strolled around the pitch looking like he didn't care had nothing to do with it?

The fans pick up on things like effort and who gives a shit, that's why no matter how crap soldado was the fans stuck with him because he tryed hard to make it work

That's not strictly true. He'd regularly charge like a bull to chase down the keeper from about 80 yards away for no reason. Probably his interpretation of pressing.

 

[alexis]

I always liked Ade. He got some really unnecessary stick from our fans, and frankly I think race had a big part to play in it. The guy clearly had some big unresolved mental health issues after what happened to the Togo team at the AFCON. He had some truly amazing performances for us, games where he was completely unplayable. Other times he looked like a fart trapped in a coke can.

We've had plenty of other players who didn't perform half as well as Ade did for us but didn't get half the stick. The likes of Soldado spring to mind.

Race! Utter bollocks, lazy money grabbing twat more like.

 

[dondo]

That's not strictly true. He'd regularly charge like a bull to chase down the keeper from about 80 yards away for no reason. Probably his interpretation of pressing.

But when he lost the ball he wouldn't run 3 yards to try and get it back

 

[Tucker]

Race really??The fact that the last season and a half he strolled around the pitch looking like he didn't care had nothing to do with it?

The fans pick up on things like effort and who gives a shit, that's why no matter how crap soldado was the fans stuck with him because he tryed hard to make it work

Race! Utter bollocks, lazy money grabbing twat more like.

Feel free to put your head in the sand all you like guys, but we've all heard the song about his dad washing Elephants that our fans used to sing to Adebayor. Sure he was lazy, but no one deserved that kind of abuse.

If he'd have been called...I don't know. David Bentley, for example, he wouldn't have got nearly as much abuse.

 

[lol]

personally. PERSONALLY. my most hated signing. didnt like him since day 1.