Emmanuel Adebayor

[frank black]

Anyway, leave Adebayor at Spurs and spend the money on a top central defender please Timothy.

[berneboy]

Anyway, leave Adebayor at Spurs and spend the money on a top central defender please Timothy.

Yes, please. Timothy.

[cdbearsfan]

Nah. We were the lowest scoring team in the top million teams for large parts of last season. We need as many attacking options as we can get. Gestede can't play every minute and Kozak has just come back from two years out. Get Adebayor. If Kozak proves his fitness then we probably won't need him next year but on a year's loan, we'd be mad not to.

[pauliewalnuts]

If our need for a reliable scoring option is so acute, shouldn't we be looking for someone with more of a solid recent record than Adebayor?

[cdbearsfan]

He has a solid record throughout his career. We don't need someone who can play every game, as we have options, as you say. We need someone to give us an alternative and who we won't need to sign long-term or pay a fortune for. Like Adebayor on a one-year deal.

[Damo70]

His goal scoring record over his career is indeed impressive. Hasn't he still got a curse on him put on by his mum though? Do we need to get Barry Fry to wee on him?

[cdbearsfan]

Emmanuel AdweeFryurgh.

What harm can it do?

[mr underhill]

problem is we will be paying a fortune for him. You don't get anything on the cheap from Spurs just cast your minds back to how they screwed us over on Jenas. it's a big fat no from me.

[Damo70]

Barry Fry would probably refuse to help us due to our pathetic lack of activity in the transfer market by his standards.

[cdbearsfan]

Adebayor has missed twenty-seven games through injury in his entire career.

There's no comparison with Jenas.

[Drummond]

Upside
He scores goals. He has a good relationship with the manager. He's been there and done  it.

Downside
He's been a liability (until managed by Sherwood) he's greedy (which player isn't?). 

[cdbearsfan]

Greedy in a financial sense or in a playing one?

If it's the former, there's no evidence that he's any greedier than any other footballer. People seem to be assuming that he's greedy as he's on big money. Rather than taking the more logical stance that he's on big money as he's been a good player throughout his career and has pretty much always gone to big clubs (or clubs with a delusion of being big, in the case of Spurs).

If it's the latter, I wouldn't want a forward who wasn't greedy.

[silhillvilla]

Think we need his quality on board.

[cdbearsfan]

SilhillVilla agrees with me? I've changed my mind.

[Chris Smith]

It comes back to how much we are having to pay towards his wages. Unless Spurs are willing to subsidise the majority then I don't think it is justifiable given what it takes out of the pot available for other signings. I suspect it is haggling over this that is delaying a move that the press have been trailing for weeks.

If we get that sorted then it is worth doing in the hope that we get a repeat of the last time he played for Sherwood.