Family Matters (Sweet mother of Ade!!)

[sunnydelight786]

We all deal with issues differently, who gave you authority on how issues should be dealt with? If you don't like him then its very easy to ignore his instagram, facebook, etc.. or simply skip over his threads.

Who gave you the authority to tell me what to do? I'm commenting on a cretin who sadly is stealing a huge living off us on a spurs forum. This forum is a place to express your opinions on all things THFC unless the rules have changed now.....

 

[sunnydelight786]

You seem like quite an angry person. Would you like a hug?

yes please

 

[Borks]

Who gave you the authority to tell me what to do? I'm commenting on a cretin who sadly is stealing a huge living off us on a spurs forum. This forum is a place to express your opinions on all things THFC unless the rules have changed now.....

Stealing a living? The bloke has scored lots of goals at every club he has been at. If you want to talk about stealing a living, we have one striker who couldn't even poach an egg.

 

[sunnydelight786]

Stealing a living? The bloke has scored lots of goals at every club he has been at. If you want to talk about stealing a living, we have one striker who couldn't even poach an egg.

The both of them are waste of spaces....

 

[cwhite02]

Ade, I'm your white brother, can I have 50K?

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

"Blessings in his life are numerous"

Care to explain what you mean by this?

A safe home
A home in several countries in fact
Very high standard of living
A loving wife
A healthy daughter
Access to education for his daughter, as good as she would want
A stable job
A very little demanding job (compared to multiple other professions)
A very high income
A career which has seen some success
Access to insanely good health care
Access to safe and clean water
Escape from poverty
Presumably a healthy body, no terminal illnesses
The ability to afford extreme luxury
The means and ability to help other people

This is a very successful life, how are you not blessed under these circumstances?

 

[commodoreLUNGE]

A very little demanding job (compared to multiple other professions)

I would like to pick up on this point a little.....

How little understanding do you have of the rigours of being a professional athlete?!

a) He will be exercising 4 hours a day some days. That's more than most fit and healthy people do in a week. That places huge demands on your body and mind.
b) He has to very stritcly control everything that he eats. Most of us can submit to impulses if we want a takeaway. He more than likely has a very rigid diet plan that he has to follow.
c) Spurs fans are the most demanding fans I've ever come across.

I'm not saying that the relationship between his pay packet and the demands of his job aren't exponentially in his favour, but that level of comment shows very little understanding of what athletes put themselves through.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I would like to pick up on this point a little.....

How little understanding do you have of the rigours of being a professional athlete?!

a) He will be exercising 4 hours a day some days. That's more than most fit and healthy people do in a week. That places huge demands on your body and mind.
b) He has to very stritcly control everything that he eats. Most of us can submit to impulses if we want a takeaway. He more than likely has a very rigid diet plan that he has to follow.
c) Spurs fans are the most demanding fans I've ever come across.

I'm not saying that the relationship between his pay packet and the demands of his job aren't exponentially in his favour, but that level of comment shows very little understanding of what athletes put themselves through.

Having been a semi-professional in a very much more demanding setting than football, I think it's quite acceptable for me to maintain that view. And there is nothing "hard" about having to eat a healthy diet, honestly. To even list that as a reasons for why an athlete has a hard life is simply to dumb. Speaking about that, you would be surprised at how little diets are enforced.
And as I wrote in my originally post, "compared to many professions". Not compared to all and every profession. Imagine hard body labour for maybe 12, maybe 14 hours a day. Imagine how many people think THAT is normal. Your comment show some ignorance to the sort of privilege being a paid sportsman is.

 

[shelfmonkey]

Yeah, I actually don't think his version of the story is too biased, I very much believe it is as he says. However, at the end of the day, Adebayor is a privileged man. I feel no more sympathy for him than for any other stranger, and I expect him to be good at his job despite his issues. Millions of people have similar problems, or other problems reaching the same extent, but nothing close to the pay check or the relaxed life style. Count your blessings and get on with your life, that's what I say.

I wouldn't be surprised if he chose to communicate this now, hoping that it would aid him in finding a new club to play for. If he gathers a bit of general sympathy, maybe he hopes that a new club will find it easier to take a chance on him?

I agree to some extent and I am in no way an Ade apologist, but the trouble is some people are emotionally more complex or fragile than others, so I for one am gonna cut the bloke some slack for once and maybe if we all show him a bit of Spurs love, now we are all aware of the situation, we might see a positive reaction from him on the pitch!

 

[nipponyid]

we might see a positive reaction from him on the pitch!

Hopefully in another shirt and on a different pitch..His time is over at Spurs, we have to admit that and move on..

 

[shelfmonkey]

Hopefully in another shirt and on a different pitch..His time is over at Spurs, we have to admit that and move on..

Ok, just for the next three games then!

 

[Borks]

A safe home
A home in several countries in fact
Very high standard of living
A loving wife
A healthy daughter
Access to education for his daughter, as good as she would want
A stable job
A very little demanding job (compared to multiple other professions)
A very high income
A career which has seen some success
Access to insanely good health care
Access to safe and clean water
Escape from poverty
Presumably a healthy body, no terminal illnesses
The ability to afford extreme luxury
The means and ability to help other people

This is a very successful life, how are you not blessed under these circumstances?

If you work extremely hard to get to the top of your profession, surely you are rewarded with these things, not blessed?

Plus it may be a stable job but his career will be over in 4-5 years, then what?

 

[nipponyid]

If you work extremely hard to get to the top of your profession, surely you are rewarded with these things, not blessed?

Plus it may be a stable job but his career will be over in 4-5 years, then what?

He becomes the new face of Togo's Deal no No Deal..

 

[Main Man]

As terrible as all this sounds, I really couldn't care less about what issues he has back home.

I hope Poch reads this though and sorts him out once and for all because a fully fit and focused Adebayor is a bloody good player

 

[jezz]

If you work extremely hard to get to the top of your profession, surely you are rewarded with these things, not blessed?

Plus it may be a stable job but his career will be over in 4-5 years, then what?

Try a real job?
You know like go to work and not take the piss.
He's only on 5.2 mill a season.
Try 25k a year and the real world.
Come back and ask for empathy when most people do this for there whole life and have the same issues.

 

[Yidiot]

Adebayor, Adebayor,
He has many phones but his brother has more

 

[thinktank]

Adebayor, Adebayor,
He has lots of phones but his brother has more

Flows better.

 

[Flashspur]

You stupid fucking ****, fuck off! Beat it! Tell your story walking, ****.

You all right champ? That's a pretty aggressive response!

 

[nipponyid]

You all right champ? That's a pretty aggressive response!

Maybe he's a bit pissed off with our season?

 

[Flashspur]

A safe home
A home in several countries in fact
Very high standard of living
A loving wife
A healthy daughter
Access to education for his daughter, as good as she would want
A stable job
A very little demanding job (compared to multiple other professions)
A very high income
A career which has seen some success
Access to insanely good health care
Access to safe and clean water
Escape from poverty
Presumably a healthy body, no terminal illnesses
The ability to afford extreme luxury
The means and ability to help other people

This is a very successful life, how are you not blessed under these circumstances?

I'd argue that he worked hard for a lot of that. To say he is blessed is kind of well .... ignorant.