Emmanuel Adebayor (from rumour to DONE)

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Interesting article from Vital Man City on the deal

http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=290917

 

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Interesting article from Vital Man City on the deal

http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=290917

Interesting insomuch as it seems to confirm that Levy was not the hold-up on this deal, so those insisting that he caused us to lose against Newcastle last Saturday by not concluding the deal sooner are clearly wrong.

However, I am not sure that I would take the it was all his fault, he was a problem at ArseScum and for us and so will be for Spurs sheeeeeeeeee-ite at face value. He was only a problem with the Goons in his final season after he thought they would sell him to Citeh and he was forced to stay. They desperately wanted to keep him - that isn't him being forced to leave because he was a problem. Before anyone else points it out, I said at the time, and maintain, that his behaviour after the Goons refused to sell him was a bit of a disgrace, so I won't quible on that. Again, with Citeh, he was taken away from a club that if left undisturbed he would have ben happy at largely by the offer of obscene wages, and then, almost immediately, told, basically, llok, Ade, you did okay in your first season, but we have so much money we can do whatever the feck we like so we are gonna sing 20 (or so) £50 million strikers and you can just rot on the bench now, okay. And when he indicated that he wasn't really happy with that they basically made him a pariah, who could just feck off to any team that would take him at a huge reduction of wages, whether he was happy or not, and whether the club showed any signs of being competitive or not. I'm not sure I would be too happy about that, either. It is noticeable that, publicly, at least, Tevez made far, far more of a stink (and seemed far more in the wrong than Ade) but is playing for them now.

 

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Interesting insomuch as it seems to confirm that Levy was not the hold-up on this deal, so those insisting that he caused us to lose against Newcastle last Saturday by not concluding the deal sooner are clearly wrong.

However, I am not sure that I would take the it was all his fault, he was a problem at ArseScum and for us and so will be for Spurs sheeeeeeeeee-ite at face value. He was only a problem with the Goons in his final season after he thought they would sell him to Citeh and he was forced to stay. They desperately wanted to keep him - that isn't him being forced to leave because he was a problem. Before anyone else points it out, I said at the time, and maintain, that his behaviour after the Goons refused to sell him was a bit of a disgrace, so I won't quible on that. Again, with Citeh, he was taken away from a club that if left undisturbed he would have ben happy at largely by the offer of obscene wages, and then, almost immediately, told, basically, llok, Ade, you did okay in your first season, but we have so much money we can do whatever the feck we like so we are gonna sing 20 (or so) £50 million strikers and you can just rot on the bench now, okay. And when he indicated that he wasn't really happy with that they basically made him a pariah, who could just feck off to any team that would take him at a huge reduction of wages, whether he was happy or not, and whether the club showed any signs of being competitive or not. I'm not sure I would be too happy about that, either. It is noticeable that, publicly, at least, Tevez made far, far more of a stink (and seemed far more in the wrong than Ade) but is playing for them now.

Just to clarify that I meant interesting from the deal details perspective. I ignored all the other bitter crap

 

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Little piece from michael cox

You have to feel sorry for Jermain Defoe. He knew Spurs were set to sign another forward this summer: he was the only striker at the club, and his style hardly suits Andre Villas-Boas's preference for a lone striker. But he'd enjoyed an excellent first week of the season, starting with a fine winner for England in the 2-1 victory over Italy.

He followed that strike with another goal in Tottenham's 2-1 defeat at Newcastle last week, when his all-round game was impressive. So, two goals in a week, and then Tottenham announced the return of Emmanuel Adebayor, who more naturally suits Villas-Boas's system. The Togo striker made 32 starts for Tottenham last season, restricting Defoe to just nine.

The two actually started life together promisingly, combining effectively and taking it in turns to drop deep, particularly in the early season victory over Wolves. Things went downhill in a 2-2 draw at St James' Park in mid-October, however: first Adebayor shot instead of passing to Defoe in a better position, and minutes later when Defoe was presented with the same situation, he wasn't going to assist Adebayor. Neither scored, the other was left frustrated.

From then, the relationship between the two was strained, and although Harry Redknapp sometimes wanted to play 4-4-2, he ended up signing Louis Saha to play instead of Defoe.
Villas-Boas will stick to 4-3-3, and will look to use Adebayor as soon as possible. The former Arsenal man might not be at full fitness, but having played last season at Tottenham, he shouldn't take much time to adjust to the side.