Emmanuel Adebayor

[Clampy]

as some insightful poster said yesterday fuck the fucker. Doesn't want to move to Birmingham or fight a relegation battle. what a cnut.

You didn't want him anyway, so you should be pleased.

[Clark W Griswold]

What a bell end.  It's a short career and he had an opportunity to play for another few years at a decent club with an ambitious manager he knows well and some exciting new players.  But he'd rather stay in London and watch his career dwindle away at a club who wont play him.

Such a twat.

If what is being reported is accurate

Exactly.  Someone says something with no quotes from the player and suddenly it's the truth.

I'm not fussed either way about the outcome of this supposed move.  I don't want him as first choice if he does come either.

I agree with what you are both saying, it could indeed be bullshit. But, this is Adebayor we're talking about so for me, that makes it believable.

I stick to what I said about a month ago when we were first linked with him, he can go and get himself vigorously rammed with the fat end of a champaign bottle.

[Dante Lavelli]

Not too fussed how this one plays out. 

Ideally we would have signed one of the promising youngsters and Adebeyor.  However the signing of Gestede makes that move less logical as we cannot afford to have too many players/wages not playing regularly.  Kozak/Gestede can battle it out for the Benteke role whilst Sinclair, Ayew, Grealish, Gil and Gabby compete for the support/assist positions.

[Matt Collins]

We'd be putting a lot of faith in gestede and Kozak. I like Kozak but he's not fit to lace benteke's boots. His lack of pace and physical presence is very noticeable. He's a good scorer though. Gestede clearly an unknown quantity at this level as is Ayew

Could work out but I definitely want some proven attacking pedigree if we can get it. It's not like we can rely on clean sheets and nicking goals.

[Jockey Randall]

The scenario that he's using the relocation as a bargaining tool for a permanent move makes the most sense to me. Realistically we are only going to want him here short term for his proven Premier League goals and he probably knows that if we're saying we only want you on loan for the season and nothing else. Unfortunately for him we can always move on to other targets and he risks another season sat on his arse.

[richard moore]

We'd be putting a lot of faith in gestede and Kozak. I like Kozak but he's not fit to lace benteke's boots. His lack of pace and physical presence is very noticeable. He's a good scorer though. Gestede clearly an unknown quantity at this level as is Ayew

Could work out but I definitely want some proven attacking pedigree if we can get it. It's not like we can rely on clean sheets and nicking goals.

Yes, me too. I might not want Adebayor - although I will cut him slack on the reported reasons he apparently doesn't want to come as they may not be true - but boy do we need someone with experience and a decent track record as we are very vulnerable in this area and one injury will potentially cause us some serious problems

[Pete3206]

Massive wanker. Glad that he'll never darken our doors.

[silhillvilla]

Let's hope he's settled his bar bill at the belfry

[passport1]

Excellent news

[chrisw1]

Excellent news

I don't see how it can possibly be excellent news.  You may not like him, but if he was part of Tim's master plan then failing to secure him is not good.

I suspect Tim knows more about the teams needs and his ability to cater for them more than any of us.

[KRS]

I very much doubt TS master plan was based on a loan deal for Adebayor...if it was, then its a bit of a shit plan.

[Toronto Villa]

What a bell end.  It's a short career and he had an opportunity to play for another few years at a decent club with an ambitious manager he knows well and some exciting new players.  But he'd rather stay in London and watch his career dwindle away at a club who wont play him.

Such a twat.

If what is being reported is accurate

Exactly.  Someone says something with no quotes from the player and suddenly it's the truth.

I'm not fussed either way about the outcome of this supposed move.  I don't want him as first choice if he does come either.

I agree with what you are both saying, it could indeed be bullshit. But, this is Adebayor we're talking about so for me, that makes it believable.

I stick to what I said about a month ago when we were first linked with him, he can go and get himself vigorously rammed with the fat end of a champaign bottle.

why is it believable? Does he have a history of refusing to new clubs because he wanted to stay where he was? I would say quite the opposite as he's moved a few times in his career. Like Bren'd says, I'm not overly fussed if he comes or not. I think he'd do well if his head was on straight on a loan deal. But I'm not going to call him a twat based on an article that might not be even close to the truth.

[Clampy]

The transfer window doesn't close for another 3 weeks so let's see what develops with this one.

[Ron Manager]

The transfer window doesn't close for another 3 weeks so let's see what develops with this one.

A week is a long time in politics. Three weeks is an eternity in a transfer window.

[cdbearsfan]

Excellent news

I don't see how it can possibly be excellent news.  You may not like him, but if he was part of Tim's master plan then failing to secure him is not good.

I suspect Tim knows more about the teams needs and his ability to cater for them more than any of us.

While I've been one of the main supporters of getting Adebayor in, I've never liked the "manager knows better than us" line.

Why not just close the forum if that's the case?