Numerous articles in various papers today stating that Adebayor would be unwilling to take a pay-cut to seal a permanent move to Spurs, citing his obligation to his social work in Togo as one of the reasons. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/nov/22/emmanuel-adebayor-wages-tottenham-move?newsfeed=true Emmanuel Adebayor has suggested he would not be prepared to accept a pay cut to help his chances of a permanent transfer to Tottenham Hotspur. The Togo striker, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, feels revitalised at White Hart Lane and he would like to stay but his wages represent a stumbling block. He earns £170,000 a week, of which City contribute £100,000, and Adebayor pulled no punches about the importance of the money, a significant portion of which he channels back to Africa to fund community projects. Tottenham's weekly wage ceiling is around £70,000, although the midfielder Luka Modric hopes to drive it up to £100,000 in his continuing negotiations for a new contract. "We all play football to get money," Adebayor said. "I'm from Africa and I have to give something back to my community. You all know that I've been doing a lot of charity stuff without knocking at any door. I'm taking my own wages to do it and I will keep doing it until the end of my career. I will leave it [the talks about next season] to Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy and Khaldoon [al-Mubarak], the chairman of Manchester City, to find a solution between themselves." Adebayor scored twice in Monday's 2-0 home win over Aston Villa, which lifted Tottenham to third position in the table and maintained their eye-catching form; they have taken 25 points from an available 27. The goals took Adebayor's tally for the club to five in nine matches, all of them in the Premier League. He has not played any cup football this season. Redknapp believes that it is "not impossible" that Tottenham will win the title, with his optimism fired by recent results and performances, but Adebayor is focused on the bottom line of Champions League qualification, which he said was his brief when he signed. "If I didn't help the team to get into the top four, then I will have failed," he said. "Everybody had huge belief in me when I came here and I have to pay that back. "Manchester City are playing good football at the moment. They have a strong squad but don't get me wrong, if Manchester United are dropping points, I cannot see Manchester City not dropping points. They will definitely drop a point. "But I don't think our battle is to catch Manchester City. Our battle is to finish in the top four. That's what the manager told me before I came here. We have to keep our focus, keep going. Everything is on our side at the moment and at the end of the season, I hope we'll be where we want to be." Capital city bragging rights are one spin-off from Tottenham's lofty perch; only the Manchester clubs can look down on them. "Judging on today ... the way Chelsea are playing and the way we are playing, for sure we are better than them," Adebayor said. "But I have a big respect for Chelsea. They have can start now and win all of their games until the end of the season. We just have to look at ourselves, though." Adebayor, who counts Arsenal among his former clubs, says that he has never been happier in England and he credits Redknapp for helping to restore his confidence, which was shaken by his treatment at the hands of the City manager Roberto Mancini, who banished him to train with the youth team. "I've got my life back," Adebayor said. "It's always a pleasure to have a manager give you compliments. He tells me to go out and enjoy my football. I am having big fun with this team. In training, we are all laughing, I feel just like a baby and the results are following. The fans accept me because I am working hard for the team. If you are Tottenham fans, you will definitely love me because I am doing the job." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...cut-to-seal-permanent-move-in-the-summer.html http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...or-i-love-spurs-but-money-counts-6266257.html -------------------------------- Where does this leave us? Do we break the wage structure to sign him, and in doing so face the inevitable contract demands from the rest of the squad? Or do we think this is just a game to try to get City to subsidise his wages for a few more years?
Anyone know how long his contract with City is? He ain't gonna get £170k a week anywhere else. Maybe City have to pay up a proportion of his salary before selling him to Spurs.
He says he's happier with us than at anyother club in England. If he gets us 20+ goals this season I'm sure we'll see him being offered a contract to match our top earners, which could be close to £100k if Modric gets a new deal. I still don't buy that he's on £170k pw though, he wasn't that good when City signed him. If he decides he wants more I'm sure he'll get it elsewhere and we'll move on.
He probably is on that much money. When he signed for City they was handing out massive contracts and fees for fun and at the time he was a massive improvement on what they had.
I think if there's a deal to be done, HD, then it will probably involve City having to substantially lower their asking price to reflect the fact that we have to pay such high wages. In the end, the result is the same cost to us, overall. City, of course, get him off their books, which with the new FFP rules looming, they'll be eager to do.
He won't get 170k anywhere else but i think he'll stay at Man City and collect the dough.Meanwhile Spurs will have plenty of time to get another forward in.Money rules i'm afraid.Atleast he admits it.It's a shame as he's happy playing for us, but he's not going to give up 85k+ to stay.
At the end of the day he needs to realise that teams won't offer him a similar wage to what City did. I'd love him on a permanent deal, think he's been first class since signing and a signing like him would help contribute to keep the likes of Modric, Bale and Rafa from the clutches of big spending opposition and also raise our profile to attract any top stars we may be interested in. If, as he says, he's loving life and enjoying football at the moment then I'm sure earning something around £70k-£80k per week (what I'd roughly guess we'd offer him) is more than enough to keep him happy! If not, quite frankly he can f*ck off and stay in City's reserves when his loan's up. Personally for me it's a no brainer but footballers these days want more and more so it really does depend on what Ade values more.
I'm sure that we could structure any transfer with City so that he ends up with the same amount of money, but with it coming in the form of bonuses or some similar add-on. He's contracted til 2014.
The thing is, that Levy and the board will now be left in absolutely no doubt that we need a player of Adebayor's calibre in order to stay where we currently sit and compete on a consistent basis. If we don't pay Adebayor the money, we'll have to pay it to someone else, only we'll also likely to have to pay a hefty purchase fee as well.
Depending on how desperate City are to get rid, let's say we could Ade for in the region of £8m-£10m, a player like him would usually cost far more than £20m in the current market as if it was any club bar City, he'd be first choice, and so if Levy were to perhaps offer Ade a sum of something like £3m/£4m as a straight up signing bonus (thus making the transfer roughly £13m/£14m - Easily worth it for a player of his calibre) and then pay a wage that fits into our structure, that'd surely entice him... Wouldn't it? WOULDN'T IT?!
If we get CL footy next season, I cannot imagine why Ade would not want to continue playing for us, and I'm sure that Levy won't make the same mistakes as last time, by not investing the CL money back into the team. We should have done that last time. Then again, no one expected our four strikers to be so dire.
Well the rumour is that we agreed an option to buy Adebayor at the end of the season for £14m, but that they're prepared to accept £10m in January for him. If we were to offer him £100k pw, then the difference over the course of the remaining two and a half years of his contract would be around £9m. If we pay City the original £14m and get them to give him half of the £9m as a 'loyalty bonus', then we could give him the other half as a signing on fee. A ridiculously roundabout way of doing things, but it might suit all parties. Then we could sell him in the summer for £30m!
You would hope so,let's just hope Levy can work some business magic coz Ade will not be easily replaced.
Let's not count chickens blah blah blah. Let's first see how many goals he scores which is why he's here isn't it? Some have said that he's inconsistent so I'd just wait and see the proof before any offers are made. I know he's a favourite player but we all can have an opinion. Defoe's a fave but he might be off to QPR.
It's not about the goals that he scored, TMT. His overall contribution to the team is the most important factor and we've extremely hard to deal with when he's leading the line.
It's also the fact that the man is clearly a winner, like VDV. We need those kinds of players in our side.
