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Emmanuel Adebayor - Officially gone \o/

When the season started I was hoping they wouldn't, but now... anything to get him away from the team.

Best 3rd placed side goes through as well and is very likely to come from this group.
 
scaramanga said:
I support the club and the players that are worth supporting. The rest can **** off.
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THIS. In the modern game the tossers who "earn" such disgusting wages should bust a gut every game (and remember that they are professional athletes who should have a desire to win). I love this club so much I have stuck with it for decades and invested in it emotionally and financially. I don't agree with booing as it is counter-productive, clearly. But I think letting the playing staff know they aren't deserving of a rousing home atmosphere is legit. If the squad don't like it then come out and admit that what they are doing is not good enough and that they will give their all to give the crowd something to sing about.
 
Emmanuel Adebayor is ready to dig his heels in and refuse to be forced out of Tottenham Hotspur in January.

Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino wants to sign at least one new forward in the next transfer window, with Southampton’s Jay Rodriguez his main target.

But Adebayor is determined he will not be the fall-guy and be pushed out of the exit door to accommodate Rodriguez or any other new signings.

Adebayor’s Spurs contract does not run out until 2016, which means the club would face the prospect of having to pay him to leave before that date.

Emirates Marketing Project were forced to pay Adebayor after he joined Tottenham to cover the £175,000-a-week wages he earned at Eastlands.

That agreement stopped once the two years remaining on Adebayor’s City contract ran out this summer, but the 30-year-old still earns around £100,000-a-week at White Hart Lane which is unlikely to be matched elsewhere.

Adebayor is said to have struck up a good early relationship with Pochettino and was surprisingly made one of the club’s vice captains for the season.

But, like a lot of the team, the Togo international’s form has not been good and he was forced to explain perceived criticism of the club’s home support after the defeat to Stoke City.

There have also been accusations that Adebayor angered team-mates by laughing and joking with opposition players after the White Hart Lane loss to Saudi Sportswashing Machine.

It remains to be seen how Adebayor will be treated by the Tottenham fans after the international break, but chairman Daniel Levy will be keen for the former Arsenal man not to become a political hot potato for the club again.

Levy was forced to intervene in a bitter row between Adebayor and former head coach Andre Villas-Boas, which started over the striker’s refusal to take off a baseball cap at a team meeting.

Having trained with the reserves, Adebayor was forced to stand on a raised platform and apologise for his behaviour to shocked team-mates by Villas-Boas.

The uneasy truce did not last long, however, and the fall-out with Adebayor was one of the reasons behind Villas-Boas being sacked last December.

Adebayor got on far better with Tim Sherwood, which resulted in a big upturn in form, and the pair famously saluted each other on the touchline in celebration of a goal.

Since the arrival of Pochettino, however, Adebayor has only scored two goals and was dropped to the substitutes’ bench for the Stoke game as crowd favourite Harry Kane was given a rare Premier League chance.

Kane was on target twice for England Under-21s against France on Monday night, which leaves Pochettino another difficult decision over his strikers for the trip to Hull City on Sunday.

Roberto Soldado may be considerably easier to force out of the Spurs exit door in January than Adebayor, with David Moyes thought to be interested in taking the Spaniard to Real Sociedad.

www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...-and-refuses-to-be-forced-out-in-January.html
 
LCLC said:
I can confirm that this is utter bull****. Your story is based on so many untruths it's scary

- Adebayor divides the dressing room? NO he is v popular

- Adebayor is troublesome? According to fans he is but find a player who says he is a problem in the squad .. Won't happen.
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wiziwig said:
You can confirm ? How ? All I'm saying is that after seeing the pair in conversation ( Verts and Ade ) , warming up on the sidelines as subs versus Stoke, my memory was jigged to a conversation I heard at an establishment where some of the players frequent . I can't say and I won't say anymore about this. It's just gossip and you can take it or leave it , I just thought I'd throw it out there.

As for you adulation for the player . You think Emmanuel Adebayor looks at his own performance do you , really ? You think the timing of him coming out with this stuff about the home support and Poch telling him that he's not entirely happy with his performances and subsequently benching him, is coincidental do you ?

IMO he's to expensive , overrated and is holding up our progress. Once we move him out and get in a player such as Jay Rodriguez, I feel we will see a much better fluid attacking team, certainly a team that works harder from the front when we've not got the ball.
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Adebayor might not leave? Who cares?

I'm just waiting for the next installment of this conversation...

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- Poch doesn't want Adebayor to leave. Source? He made Ade vice captain four months ago.

- Ade isn't going to be tempted to leave, and no-one is going to make him or the club an irresistible offer. Source? Ade's well publicised high wages.

- Ade is popular enough in the dressing room and appreciated for his support. Source? Public comments saying what most if not all of the squad will feel, and opening himself to absorb a lot of the current frustration.

Common sense is ITK.
 
chicken_badge said:
- Poch doesn't want Adebayor to leave. Source? He made Ade vice captain four months ago.
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Poch had zero input into deciding the captains sadly.


chicken_badge said:
- Ade isn't going to be tempted to leave, and no-one is going to make him or the club an irresistible offer. Source? Ade's well publicised high wages.
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Ade is only 100k right now after his city contract ran out. I've no doubt he could get more at a desperate club.

chicken_badge said:
- Ade is popular enough in the dressing room and appreciated for his support. Source? Public comments saying what most if not all of the squad will feel, and opening himself to absorb a lot of the current frustration.

Common sense is ITK.
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What about the story the other week about everyone being ****ed at him for inviting players from other teams onto the dressing room after a defeat.
 
Modric THFC said:
Poch had zero input into deciding the captains sadly.

Ade is only 100k right now after his city contract ran out. I've no doubt he could get more at a desperate club.

What about the story the other week about everyone being ****ed at him for inviting players from other teams onto the dressing room after a defeat.
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How do you know that Poch had no input into the choice of his captains? Also isn't that absolutely crazy? Surely it is always the manager who picks his team captains?

The story about Ade inviting the Saudi Sportswashing Machine players into the dressing room only had a small element of truth to it. He was talking to some of their French African players after the game but it wasn't in our dressing room. It is also not at all uncommon for players from both sides to socialise with each other after a game. It didn't seem to be a problem last season when we beat Saudi Sportswashing Machine away.
 
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