Emmanuel Adebayor has made a blistering start to his Tottenham Hotspur career, scoring 3 goals in his first two games for them. The much maligned centre forward is looking to get his career back on track after a bad spell at Manchester City.
He looks like a man on a mission and he is out to prove himself to those who doubted and criticised him and questioned his love for football. In his first two games for Spurs, against Wolves and Liverpool, he looks hungrier than ever before and a shadow of the player he was a year ago.
Adebayor had a difficult summer after being made to train with the reserves at Manchester City and told he wasn’t in their first team plans at all. He was sent on loan to Real Madrid for the latter half of last season, but despite scoring 5 goals for the Spanish giants, they decided not to turn his loan into a permanent move.
So after his dream move to Real Madrid faded away the big Togolese striker had a lot of thinking to do over the summer and the way he was treated by Man City looks to have made him more determined to rediscover his best form.
After Man City put Adebayor up for sale, there weren’t many teams interested in signing him. But it was finally Tottenham who gambled on him, albeit on a season’s long loan. At first Tottenham fans were sceptical about the signing of a former Arsenal player, but on the other hand they were pleased to have signed a player who has a habit of always scoring against them, having scored 10 goals in 15 matches against them, so Tottenham’s plan was, if you can’t stop him, buy him,
In just two games he and Jermain Defoe look to have formed a great partnership, scoring 5 goals in two games between them. If Adebayor can fire Spurs back into the top four with his goals this season, not only will he earn a permanent contract at White Hart Lane, he could go down as the signing of the season.
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Did the very same thing at City for the first few weeks, then went into decline.
Fickle.
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Indeed we have, we capitilised on the players discontentment with Man City. He does realise that we are not a rich club (that can splash the cash) & is quiet content at Spurs.If his stay with us for the season is successful, it would add to his ego – just to get back at Man City to satisfy this.
Weren’t all of our signings last summer (Gallas, Sandro, Van Der Vaart) all hailed as the signing of the season at various times by various observers?
Yeah, mate. Harry’s fantastic. I’ll be gutted when England call.
Harry had nothing to do with these signing. He doesnt know one player from his dog. Levy and the scouting team deal with the signing. All Harry does is say in what position he wants someone. I for one will be glad to see the back of a manager that 7times last yr had 2keepers on the beach rather than use ressies. See the back of someone that keeps slagging the fans off and see the back of someone who gets upset with a player and then excluds them from the team
A fantastic signing. Spurs look far more potent with him in the side. Other player around him suddently look more threatening. This was a fantastic move by Harry, I only hope it becomes permanent. Do we want a stricker that scores goals and causes the opposition all sorts of trouble? Yes we do, and now we have it. Ta ta Pav!
Again, a fantastic move by Daniel Levy that Redknapp will get credit for.
Whiskey, Tango, Fox?
LMAO, well Harry had nothing to do with the signing, he wasn’t even aware that Levy signed him when we announced it on the website and before a game.
Yeah, he was on Sky and they pointed it out to him. Pointed out he was in the stands. Harry didnt have a clue. Just like VDV. With Sandto, he didnt know anything about the player, just the fact scouts had looked at him and Levy was trying to get him. Be nice to have a manager that knows about new players and not just ones he has had in his team in the past
Remember Mido anyone? Adebayor’s history is littered with beginings such as this and endings that are always tearful and extremly painful. One years loan I’ve not no qualms with but a longer term contract, not a chance! We’ve bought time and I hope Pav goes back to the Siberian Salt mines and we purchse a couple of decent strikers on maybe even get Adebayor for another season… on loan
Yes, whereas Mido had played for Top clubs, I believe 6 by the time he came to Spurs. Adebayor only has Monaco. Le Ar5e, and Citeh. The loan move to Madrid and now to Spurs happened based on a new manager at Citeh who wanted his own players – Balotelli.
Adebayor should do very well for Spurs, his style suits their play. As for the move to Madrid, it didn’t happen because Mourinho didn’t want him. It never materialised because the powers that be wanted a marque name, and because Citeh wanted more than they thought he was worth.
I agree bye bye Pav he seems to have lost his love for Spurs.. As we fans have fallen out of love with him lol.. DIVORCE looks likely
Spurs fans were never sceptical, they realised that the team needed a centre forward with touch, aerial ability, hold up play and an eye for gaol and that he would provide it and he has.
And because Crouch was/is pants.
Exactly I think Adebayor looks gret and has always been great but if you compare him to Dzeko or Aguero the thing that lets him down is attitude, he doesnt like competition and has to be the main man.
I agree with your Crouch comment, I think he made our team look alot worse because Parker, Sandro, Hudd, Modric, VDV, Bale, Krancjar, Pienaar and Lennon form the best midfield in the league and any striker would look good with those supplying him, so in essence im saying our midfielders suit Adebayor perfectly, and Crouch didnt suiot them at all, he is at the right club now though
we could look back at the psb (keano) signing, big talent, scored goals and showed flashes of brilliance but could never really settle before cartwheeling into whl, setting his roots and playing some of the best football of his career.. mmm maybe ade is also looking for somewhere to lay his hat and he is more than welcome! COYS
Just waiting for Harry to revert to the negative 4-5-1 he holds so dear as the buffoon still can’t see that it cost us top 4 last year. A manager is paid to MANAGE and that means making tough decisions (such as leaving VDV out for the sake of the team).
Incompetent self publicist!
We have been playing 451. Defoe has been playing extremely deep. Check out the stats over the pitch. Very little difference in team positioning than when Vdv plays.
Did you watch the 2nd half against Liverpool? VDV was brilliant on the right of our 4-4-2. We morphed into a fluid 4-3-3 with Parker, Modric and VDV playing beautiful one touch football. Probing, looking for the pass to unlock the defence with Bale, Ade and Defoe in front of them. Admittedly there will be tougher games where we can’t play like this but with Walker improving every week we finally have a RB with pace, flair and ability to overlap VDV and drag the defence wide to allow him to go on one of his trademark jinking, probing runs inside. Harry and Levy are a great partnership, down with the haters.
Come on you REAL Spurs fans!!!
lol..you mean against 9 man Liverpool you were able to bully them…Guffaw.
i suppose the first 25/30 minutes Liverpool were great were they? they had 9 men for a reason…because they couldn’t cope with spurs
We bullied them before the sending off. We should have been 4 up in the first 20mins. If you are going to comment on something. Make sure its something you know about.
Very good player, would love to see him at Spurs beyond this season. But face facts he will not dropo his wages by 70k a week.
Yeah Steve, Spurs under Redknapp are a negative team, good one that…
On to Adebayor, great signing, if we bought him last year we would be in the Champions League this year, wish it was more than a one season loan, we need to keep him fit as Pav is dross and the rest of the strike options not up to much without Ade to hold their hand.
Is he really that much of a trouble maker ? I mean at Arsenal he enjoyed a great run, hit a patch and the fans turned on him. He was great at City until the Togo incident.. He seems level headed enough in his interviews.
I think Ade has finally found a proper home for himself where he can express himself. He did really well at Arsenal with good, skillful players around him. At city he was one of the first major signings and didn’t perform after being there for 3 months. They then sign a whole array of strikers and he was rotated. We all know he has a big ego and needs to be appreciated by fans and team mates and he has this now at spurs. He is our main man, the man we have never had before in his position and the team are thriving off this. it poses the question: Why of why did we not try and get him last year when he came out and said that he would sign for us? Signing him is not a masterstroke he was the only big name player in his position that wanted to join us. It will be a masterstroke if we can sign him on our wage structure for a reasonable fee.
Parker was the signing of the season. Pav would have scored all the goals that ade did and played just as good.
He is on loan and could hardly be considered as a signing. But the real signing HR and DL have achieved was that of Scott Parker as the midfield now looks immaculate.