knowlespurs
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ade has been in and out of the team due to injuries and suspensions, once he has had a run cant see any reason why he wouldnt be top class again, feel it would be mad to let him go
Emmanuel Adebayor
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How much are we paying Ade? 100k p/w? More? I would be pissed off if I was in the squad getting paid less, watching him put in his usual 50% - and his finishing has been particularly dross this year.
Remember how hard it was to sign him too? City are still paying around 80k p/w of his wages aren't they? If we ship him off will we have to do the same? I'm really hacked off with him. We only have 2 bloody strikers, you'd think that our highest paid player (Maybe 2nd highest, IDK) would be able to keep his place on the team sheet. If he was being paid less I'd be up for giving him a chance, but every week we wait for him to find form costs us 100k!!
We've got one striker who is too selfish to pass and another who is too selfish to bother to turn up to work. Absolutely fine with replacing him, even if it means we still only have 2 strikers.
Remember how hard it was to sign him too? City are still paying around 80k p/w of his wages aren't they? If we ship him off will we have to do the same? I'm really hacked off with him. We only have 2 bloody strikers, you'd think that our highest paid player (Maybe 2nd highest, IDK) would be able to keep his place on the team sheet. If he was being paid less I'd be up for giving him a chance, but every week we wait for him to find form costs us 100k!!
We've got one striker who is too selfish to pass and another who is too selfish to bother to turn up to work. Absolutely fine with replacing him, even if it means we still only have 2 strikers.
Reado
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Would be stupid to get rid of him. He hasn't set the world alight since returning, but I don't think he's been awful. Pop him up top as the main striker and we'd see a different player. I know he's dropped deep and ran the channels a fair bit this season, but with Defoe up top maybe in the positions Ade wants to be in, then he is forced to make his runs elsewhere. I know Defoe has banged in the goals, but what's to say Adebayor wouldn't have if he'd have been playing up top? It's all ifs and buts I know, but at the end of the day Adebayor isn't the type of player to play behind the striker - he IS the striker. Keep.
Gaz_Gammon
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And after Levy get's rid and pays off his contract (say 2.4 million plus add on's) who pray tell over the next three weeks is Levy going to go out and buy who is better and would cost a similar amount? When Ade goes (if he does) to the ACN let's see just how prolific a goalscorer Defoe and Dempsey actually become.
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Therein lies the problem. Last season he was fighting for his contract, he's got it and he's put his feet up. Do that stat again for this season. When you pay such astronomical money to a player you expect him to deliver. He's scored 2 goals and missed a lorry-ful of chances with several one-on-ones. His head is just not in it. Nor is his heart
Mustard
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Spot on Boris. Also i here from the radio he has decided to go to the acn. Giving all of one days notice. No problem with him going but couldn't he have let his employers who will be paying about half a million pounds for the privilege of watching him go a heads up?
thanks dear Ade. Let's hope he scores a hatful and puts his transfer fee up.
thanks dear Ade. Let's hope he scores a hatful and puts his transfer fee up.
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Bit too early to say for me. I don't think he's been as lazy some suggest but what you say there - that was always the worry with him and if we do see the same stuttering, lack of hunger we witnessed last season for much longer, I fear those worries will have been correct.
It doesn't take months and months to refind form. It's not like he suffered a double leg break and dislocation after all.
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I think people are forgetting that he did spend last season with us and it is pretty much the same group of players. A world class striker (which Ade isn't IMO, but most would disagree) really should be able to adapt faster. If he doesn't go I wouldn't lose sleep over it, but I reckon it was the wrong buy in the first place. He expects to start and doesn't like it when he doesn't. On his day, he is unplayable, but those have been few and far between for months now. Dare I say, we haven't seen one this season.
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I quite agree. We've been starved of a top notch striker for so long, Ade seemed like the messiah to some but last season he drove me nuts a number times. His finishing is actually really rather shit for a 100K a week player. That's a mental thing though with players I think. You are either a clinical bastard or you aren't. The rest of his game, when he's on song more than makes up for that. That chelsea SF still grates for me.
But anyways, Ade can be an absolute beast and his play last season would improve the overall team's chances immeasurably. If he can get back to that, we're cooking with gas.
But anyways, Ade can be an absolute beast and his play last season would improve the overall team's chances immeasurably. If he can get back to that, we're cooking with gas.
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...6506864261.405320.365981399260&type=1&theater
Stats don't lie.
Or do they?
You decide.
Stats don't lie.
Or do they?
You decide.
Hoddle&Waddle
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I was thinking Dempsey deserved to start before Ade went to the ACON, got more goals and more assists in less games.http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...6506864261.405320.365981399260&type=1&theater
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Khilari
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Didn't we draw three home games at the start of the season with Ade on the bench / injured?
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Well. Lets look at the losses a bit closer:
1st loss with Adebayor: Chelsea (H) 2-4. Adebayor plays the last 17 minutes, comes on at 2-3.
2nd loss with Adebayor: Wigan (H) 0-1. Adebayor plays the last 34 minutes, comes on at 0-1.
3rd loss with Adebayor: Man City (A) 2-1. Adebayor plays 80 minutes. Goes off at 1-1. We proceed to lose.
4th loss with Adebayor: Arsenal (A) 5-2. Adebayor plays for 17 minutes, scores and gets sent off. We lose heavily. His fault.
5th loss with Adebayor: Everton (A) 2-1. Adebayor plays the whole game. We lose 2-1 from two freak goals in the last minutes.
Apart from the Wigan game I don't think anyone would expect 5 wins from these very tough games. He's been poor this season, but the kind of statistical abuse shown in that post is just ridiculous.
UncleBuck
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Too many of us said this would happen with him at the end of last season for it to be a coincidence that he has been so dire, whatever the reasons.
Unfortunately it's all about Ade in Ade's world, when will he realise that the world doesn't revolve around massaging his ego and start putting in a few performances like last season when he was trying to justify us giving him a contract as opposed to the dross we've been served up this season?
Cracking player when he can be bothered who would be my first name on the teamsheet if I knew what I was getting each week, however, the lack of pre season training being cited as a reason for being unfit because he wasn't with a club gave us a sneak preview as to what we should expect this season from him....
All this Ade is lazy, ego-maniac and not interested etc is totally BS.
Ade has been pretty good lately (I didn't see the Coventry game), except for his finishing which has been really poor (he's always had these spells with poor finishing in his career - most strikers do. Defoe has missed a lot of good chances the past month), but that can hardly be blamed on being lazy, an ego-maniac or not interested. Just doesn't make sense. I'm pretty damn sure he wants to finish his chances better.
In most games he works hard off the ball, sometimes chasing it down to our penalty area. I don't understand this lazy monicker he's been labelled with now.
The fact is that he's probably one of the less selfish players we have. He always looks for players in a better position than himself.
Hopefully he can regain some confidence in his finishing in the ACN and come back a better goal scorer, like he was last year.
Ade has been pretty good lately (I didn't see the Coventry game), except for his finishing which has been really poor (he's always had these spells with poor finishing in his career - most strikers do. Defoe has missed a lot of good chances the past month), but that can hardly be blamed on being lazy, an ego-maniac or not interested. Just doesn't make sense. I'm pretty damn sure he wants to finish his chances better.
In most games he works hard off the ball, sometimes chasing it down to our penalty area. I don't understand this lazy monicker he's been labelled with now.
The fact is that he's probably one of the less selfish players we have. He always looks for players in a better position than himself.
Hopefully he can regain some confidence in his finishing in the ACN and come back a better goal scorer, like he was last year.
Emmanuel Adebayor claims he is yet to receive assurances from Andre Villas-Boas that he is fine with the striker playing in the African Nations Cup for Togo.
Adebayor had initially refused to play in the African Nations Cup due to a row over team security and unpaid bonuses, but following talks with the country's president the Tottenham striker now has his heart set on taking part in the tournament.
"That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me," Adebayor told africatopsports.com in response to Villas-Boas' comments to the media saying he was happy for the striker to go.
Adebayor had initially refused to play in the African Nations Cup due to a row over team security and unpaid bonuses, but following talks with the country's president the Tottenham striker now has his heart set on taking part in the tournament.
"That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me," Adebayor told africatopsports.com in response to Villas-Boas' comments to the media saying he was happy for the striker to go.
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Emmanuel Adebayor admits Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas may not be happy with his decision to play in the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Togo striker initially refused to play in the tournament due to a row over team security and unpaid bonuses, but he has since patched things up with his country and will travel to South Africa
after Saturday's Premier League game with QPR.
His absence will leave Spurs with Jermain Defoe
as their only senior striker, although Villas-Boas has always insisted he would be happy to let Adebayor
go.
But the 28-year-old told africatopsports.com on the Togo Football Federation's website: "That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me.
"There is a difference between what you say to the press and what you say in private."
Adebayor's initial fears were raised over the possibility of the team being subjected to a similar attack to the one that took place in 2010 in Angola.
Three people, including the Togo's assistant coach, were killed when terrorists ambushed the team's coach. Adebayor hid under a seat and survived the attack.
"In 2010 I wanted to go to the African Nations Cup
to win and you saw all that happened, how that turned out. I hope this time will be better for me, for my team-mates, for all of Togo."
Emmanuel Adebayor admits Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas may not be happy with his decision to play in the Africa Cup of Nations.
The Togo striker initially refused to play in the tournament due to a row over team security and unpaid bonuses, but he has since patched things up with his country and will travel to South Africa
His absence will leave Spurs with Jermain Defoe
But the 28-year-old told africatopsports.com on the Togo Football Federation's website: "That is what he said to the press, but not what he said to me.
"There is a difference between what you say to the press and what you say in private."
Adebayor's initial fears were raised over the possibility of the team being subjected to a similar attack to the one that took place in 2010 in Angola.
Three people, including the Togo's assistant coach, were killed when terrorists ambushed the team's coach. Adebayor hid under a seat and survived the attack.
"In 2010 I wanted to go to the African Nations Cup
