Emmanuel Adebayor apologises to booing Tottenham fans...

[spursbri111]

This is a typical case of cutting off your nose to spite your face

i genuinely think soldado is a better team player and has a better hunger for winning

 

[riggi]

Couldn't give a shit and couldn't give a shit what any player says in the press.

 

[gibbospurs]

Stop talking and start saluting then!!

 

[thinktank]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Pochettino-Booing-Must-Stop-Emmanuel-Adebayor

TOTTENHAM fans have been urged not to boo Emmanuel Adebayor as he looks to rebuild relations following the collapse of his loan move to West Ham.
Published: 22:30, Thu, February 5, 2015
By Matthew Dunn

Mauricio Pochettino has urged the Spurs fans not to boo Emmanuel Adebayor

The Togo international revealed that the Hammers were his choice of five clubs who courted his temporary signature in January – only for Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to refuse to sanction a move to one of Tottenham’s rivals for European places.

On Wednesday he insisted he was happy to see out the season with Tottenham and insisted that comments criticising the club’s fans for being too negative earlier in the campaign had been taken out of context.

Speaking ahead of the north London derby against Tottenham tomorrow, Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino claimed bygones should be bygones.

“It’s important that the fans forget the past,” he said. “I think he explained why he made the comments. And now, all together, we need to try to get the success, because we are in a key moment.

"We need to try to help each other and try to get the success.

“We need to put out the bad things, the bad energy, we need to try to help each other and try to get the success. This is the important thing. So yes, I want the booing to stop.”

Furthermore, Pochettino insisted that personal problem were behind Adebayor’s drop in form after he had to fly back to Africa for family reasons.

“In the past it was difficult for him and what was happening,” he said. “Always it is difficult to come back and get back to the same level. It is not easy to stay fit. It is a matter of time.

“He is a long way towards recovering his confidence and his levels and that is our job: to try to push him and help him and get him in the best condition to improve quickly.

“He is in a good mood, he is in a good way. And yesterday he explained that he is happy to stay here.”

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/foot...Pochettino-Booing-Must-Stop-Emmanuel-Adebayor

 

[The Scarecrow]

Is it just that his 100% isn't good enough anymore....

I don't know about that. He was more than good enough a year ago.

 

[Frozen_Waffles]

This main man thing is only possible if the players and manager believe that, and yes he could do it last season when everyone else was average. He is simply not the best player compared to the current form of Eriksen and Kane.

He has to learn humility and sacrificing his ego for the team, however, forced apologys aside, I doubt he is capable of this.

He cares for living in London and seeing out a great contract... fair play really.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Yeah, that bust up never happened.

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

"We are a club. And when you sign a contract as a player, you need to understand that you don’t sign to play, you sign to train" Pochettino

One of the best and most 'Bill Nick like' utterances from a modern Spurs manager that I have read,

Top bloke.

 

[Leoparden]

Fantastic quote.
May I ask where it came from? Id like to read that interview. Thank you.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

"We are a club. And when you sign a contract as a player, you need to understand that you don’t sign to play, you sign to train" Pochettino

One of the best and most 'Bill Nick like' utterances from a modern Spurs manager that I have read,

Top bloke.

Yeah I liked that too, and he managed to make it sound genuine rather than Brendan Rodgers-like.

 

[Mullers]

I wouldn't apologise, fuck that. I don't think he has anything to apologise for.

 

[WestBelfast Spurs]

if he scores against these fucks on Saturday will I cheer, you bet your ass I will but I wont salute its to far gone for a salute, them bridges are burned

There is a ton of hate for Ade no matter if he changes people will still hate him, so he's fucked either way

 

[Mullers]

if he scores against these fucks on Saturday will I cheer, you bet your ass I will but I wont salute its to far gone for a salute, them bridges are burned

What if he scores a last minute winner in the league cup final?

 

[225]

Fantastic quote.
May I ask where it came from? Id like to read that interview. Thank you.

http://www.theguardian.com/football...nted-keep-emmanuel-adebayor-tottenham-hotspur

 

[double0]

Would people accept Ade next season on reduced wages and as part of the squad rotation?

 

[Borks]

Football fans in general are sheep. They believe anything they're told and are too stupid to form their own opinion. When you look at the case of Ade, many people claim he only plays well near a transfer window or for a contract yet nobody can back this up with any substance. I've heard the words mercenary, lazy, useless, disinterested all used, but once again, nobody can ever back these up with facts. However, the thing that really winds me up is even if all this were true, why is there different rules for him compared to everyone else?

When he plays well he wants a new contract. When he plays badly it's because he wants to play badly and doesn't care. When other players play badly it's because they're having a dip in form, yet nobody ever claims Ade is simply out of form?

When Ade turns down £1m per month to play in Qatar or UAE or wherever nobody mentions it, yet they'll happily claim Spurs are paying him £170k a week despite that being ridiculously far from the truth.

Ade is probably one of the most charitable players out there, yet that's somehow held against him!? "Oh look at his Instagram and all the flashy cars he's bought" like no other player has nice things? These bright sparks need to learn about supply and demand. If he is one of the top specialists in his field and he can command 6 figures a week, who are we to say anything against that? If you hate him that much, stop going to matches and paying the club!

"It's not due to his arsenal connection, Gallas was never booed". The latter may be correct but these two have been such easy targets over the past few years and it's no coincidence that it only takes one or two bad games before these two are/were abused.

There really is no rationale behind the Ade hate. If you truly believe the points above then you'll end up hating everyone in life that earns more money than you and if you really think you have the right to boo him, who are we to stop you? But my god, you really are more stupid than I could ever comprehend.

 

[tommyt]

We weren't booing, we were saying "booo-urns".


Contrary to others, I think Adebayor's trying and does want to succeed with us. He still has an attitude problem though, from what I can tell he doesn't apply what the manager wants of him and seems to think he knows best, just as he did with AVB and Mancini. He's stubborn to the point where it has repeatedly damaged the club he's at and his own career, it's always Ade's way or nothing. I believe that's why Redknapp and Sherwood got the best out of him, he works better with managers who give players more freedom which allows him Ade to play Ade's football. Unfortunately Ade's football is not the only way, or necessarily the right way.

It's the same off the pitch too. Want to leave Arsenal to play for someone else? Fine but don't piss off the fans and start publicly touting yourself to clubs(it was funny at the time though ). Want to play more football at City? Fine but knuckle down, take your chances and don't act like being a late substitute is beneath you. Want to play international football? Fine but don't come out of international retirement a month before a mid season tournament starts. Want to join your international team in Togo to celebrate a historic performance at the ACON? Well you probably owe your club to think of them first at some point, or at least bloody let them know where the hell you are. On and on it goes with each incident giving more reason for people to believe he's self-entitled, self-important arse.

I'm sure we'll all be glad when he's gone, which is a shame because he's very talented and for the most part likeable. I won't boo him though and I think those that did have made their point, the club clearly want rid too so what's the point in doing it anymore?

I agree wholeheartedly with this, and I know that talk is cheap, but imagine if he genuinely did make the effort until the end of the season?

He knows that Poch isn't afraid to drop him and that the club were willing to sell him. But he also hears his manager supporting him time and time again publicly.

I'm optimistic that Poch can help him sort his head out and get him playing to an acceptable level within his system.

 

[thinktank]

"We are a club. And when you sign a contract as a player, you need to understand that you don’t sign to play, you sign to train" Pochettino

One of the best and most 'Bill Nick like' utterances from a modern Spurs manager that I have read,

Top bloke.

Yup.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Football fans in general are sheep.

He has had 1 peak season at every club he has played for apart from at Monaco where he generally didn't peak at all. His history shows that he has fluctuated between marvellous and ridiculous more often than Spurs fluctuate between well-working and utter rubbish. The reasons behind those immense fluctuations can be many, but they are quite obvious regardless of how many paragraphs you spend on saying that the fans are the ones in the wrong.

 

[Mustard]

Would people accept Ade next season on reduced wages and as part of the squad rotation?

Sadly he will be here then on full wages anyway.