It raised a couple of eyebrows at the time, but not too many. Emmanuel Adebayor was well into Phase B of his latest career move (the sulk) so was surplus to requirements, and Manchester City just wanted rid. Thus when Tottenham Hotspur offered the player a route out (with City predictably helping out with the wages), it seemed the best deal for all.
Or maybe not. Now, it’s all looking a bit awkward. Now, it seems that Manchester City have loaned a player to a club competing with them for the title – and I doubt this is how Roberto Mancini saw it panning out.
Ideally, Mancini and the board at City would have wanted rid of Adebayor permanently – a transfer fee in from another club, preferably abroad, to take him off their hands. The problem was, as is often the case with City’s deadwood from the past couple of seasons, his wages. A half-season loan at Real Madrid had gone fairly well, but they had little desire to sign him up permanently – it was more a case of bridging a gap for a while due to injuries, Higuain especially springing to mind. Adebayor made all the right noises publicly about wanting to remain in Madrid, at times almost begging for a move to go through, his commitment extending to even cutting his hair. The guy was serious.
But it wasn’t to be. Real Madrid had moved on to pastures new, and Adebayor needed to find somewhere else. If you’re one of the best players in the world, the huge wages that came with you would not be a problem, but he isn’t (good as he is), and this limited his options. Not surprisingly, enter Harry Redknapp, stage left. Harry thought Adebayor was a ‘triffic player, but the wages would never be met by his chairman, and as we all know, Harry doesn’t get involved in transfer deals.
City were faced with the prospect of another Tevez situation – an unwanted, big-name player hanging around the reserves sucking money out of the club, casting a bed smell over the training ground. After all, there was no way back to the first team for Adebayor – once Mancini falls out with a player, they are history.
A year-long loan deal to Spurs wasn’t ideal, but at least it would take some of the wages off City’s hands, and would get him out of the club for the time being – but more importantly, did Mancini and the board think Spurs were not a threat?
With or without Ade Spurs are not a threat to the two title contenders. Ade is a good player, but not wanted at City because he is too lazy.
Tevez from united to city?
Emmanuel Ade cant just match the current crop at City. Let him enjoy his first eleven at Spurs than scrumble for one at mighty city.
Lmao, not one Manchester City fan in their right mind would ever want Adebayor back at City, despite the goals he has scored at Spurs he is still a lazy player who will never have the ability to get any club to the top FACT.
You just hate Manchester City and people only have to look at your previous FFC to see that.
Muppet!
Adebayor is the one who made the mistake. He couldn’t handle not being the biggest player at city. Thats what happens when you play for a mega team. He was a bit player at Madrid also. Now he is at a smaller club and gets regular football. Big fish in a small pond is a good analogy I think. And before all the spurs fans get on my case for saying Spurs are small, I mean it in the squad sense. City have at least 2 & sometimes 3 BIG players for every position. I actually think spurs have a great team and good luck to them.
Adebayour can’t play against City, but he can take points off Utd, Chelsea, arsenal and Liverpool. So he’s sort of doing City a favour, and also reabilitating his transfer value somewhat.
Tevez from Utd to City the biggest mistake. Me nah tink so. He has been the premier league’s highest scorer over the last 2 seasons he’s been at City. From the “Welcome to Manchester” billboard on, he put City on the map.
Photo of Tevez, arms outstretched. Ex-Nike Marketing executive does a bit of photoshop. One billboard rental. Cost? less than a grand. Value? Priceless.
It went viral, and became iconic. I just did a google image search on “welcome to Manchester” and got 102 million results in 0.34 seconds.
City will recover Tevez’ recent wages, at the very least. Sheik Mansour loaned Silvio Berlesconi the money to buy Endemol (“Big Brother” production company, which is why AC Milan will give us most of our money back for Tevez (like they did for Robinho).