Emmanuel Adebayor

[chrisw1]

you can colour it anyway you like but this is only going to happen if it's a great deal for Levy/ Spurs and a great deal for Adebayor.

You would have thought paying anything less than £5m in wages next year for a player they will not use would be a great deal for Levy.  With that as a starting point, why wouldn't they, say, pay 50% of his wages?  It's so simple for us looking in isn't it?

[Villa in Denmark]

If he ain't interested let him rot at spurs and that worm Levy can spend another £5m on his wages . It doesn't smell right at all this one .

May I suggest a shower, a new I underpants and socks?

[mr underhill]

Levy will only let Adebayor go on loan if we pay 100k a week. To me that is a bad deal as it would mean he would be a 'must play ', otherwise he'd sulk and just trouser the money without doing much at all. He's too precious, too insecure. We've got Gestede and Kozak who can fulfil the role perfectly well, with others as their understudies. I just don't think we need him.

[silhillvilla]

It's quite plausible this will go through after dark on 31 Aug once Levy realises he will be stuck with him .
It would of course be quite nice to tell him to f**k off at this point if we've gone down an alternate route.

[cheltenhamlion]

If it is a loan then Adebayor will "trouser" £100k a week anyway. And why shit it about what deal Spurs may want? We hold all the cards if we want him.

£5m on wages for a player you won't use who leaves for free in the summer. Or cut your losses and just pay half his wages for that time?

Might mean the deal goes through later in the hope of finding cash rich fruit loops from unestablished leagues, if they can't, deal.

[Diablo]

It may be something in the air or something I've eaten but for some reason I have faith Sherwood won't be stung on this whichever route he takes.

[ChicagoLion]

King Ade probably thinks he should get a pay rise as part of the deal.

[Clampy]

The gossip column suggests that they're selling Soldado. Maybe the reason we haven't signed Adebayor is because they've decided that if they can get some cash for Soldado, they may as well keep Adebayor as cover rather than spending money on a replacement?

I'm not sure about that. They haven't included him in any pre-season games and he's hardly figured since Sherwood left. I'd be happy with him coming in if the deal was right for us.

[silhillvilla]

King Ade probably thinks he should get a pay rise as part of the deal.

He seems the sort of character woe betide the club if they forgot his birthday cake & card toys would be thoroughly launcheth from pram

[cheltenhamlion]

It is just as well you never played for us.....

[gervilla]

He passed the physical - they are waiting for the results of the psychoanalysis

That's the end of that then.

[Villa in Denmark]

King Ade probably thinks he should get a pay rise as part of the deal.

He seems the sort of character woe betide the club if they forgot his birthday cake & card toys would be thoroughly launcheth from pram

I might have missed something along the way, but is there any actual evidence (sky sports understands doesn't count) of this sort of behaviour.

All I've seen is someone who's gone from zero to hero at Arsenal, then get picked up by Man City, destroyer of careers by common consensus, on the basis of 1 1/2 good seasons.
After Hughes was sacked, Mancini didn't want to know, leading to loan spells at Madrid and Spurs. Signed for Spurs under the manager that had taken him on loan (AVB) only to see history repeat itself with AVB getting the bullet soon after his arrival. Played well under Sherwood for the rest of the season.

When played regularly he scores goals.
He's not in the papers for being pissed at 3 o'clock in the morning.
It's not his fault Man City and then Spurs threw mind boggling contracts at him.

I genuinely don't know where he's got his reputation from and would be delighted to be pointed in the right direction here.

[mr underhill]

His myriad of personal problems have forced Spurs to give him compassionate leave. He hasn't played any real football for a while, he isn't anywhere near match fit,  and it is nearly two seasons since Sherwood coaxed some form out of him in another side and in different circumstances. If a week in politics is a long time, two years to a soon to be 32 year old footballer is a lifetime. There is nothing to say history can repeat itself now; yes he's scored goals in the past, but is he going to reproduce that form here, on a temporary contract with three or four other, perhaps more committed players fighting for the shirt? I would rather what resource we have, goes to strengthening our defence   rather than adding to our collection of forwards. But if he comes so be it.

[cheltenhamlion]

Which is why a seasons loan, at half the wages, is a worth a punt?

[LeeB]

It's not two years though, is it? It's one full season ago.

His 'myriad' of problems appear to be family issues, I don't know the details but when it's family it can be harder to deal with.

As far as I'm aware he's not had a Collymore-esque breakdown, quit football to make love to ladies or claimed the death of a relative to skive off international duty, unlike several ex players that cost us a fortune in transfer fees.

He's going to be on loan. We'll pay some of his wages. He has a great relationship with the manager.

Honestly, what the fuck is the problem here?