Europa League Squad

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PowerSpurs said:
Does anyone know why Dele Alli is in it? Does he not qualify as under 21 somehow?
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From UEFA's website

A "club-trained player" is a player who, between the age of 15 (or the start of the season during which he turns 15) and 21 (or the end of the season during which he turns 21), and irrespective of his nationality and age, has been registered with his current club for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons (i.e. a period starting with the first official match of the relevant national championship and ending with the last official match of that relevant national championship) or of 36 months.

Alli's only been registered with the club since January, so doesn't qualify.
 
Wow. So no Adebayor in either the BPL or Europa squads. Amazing - especially since there are only 21 in our BPL squad.

I mean seriously - how the hell do the club think it's OK to name ONE striker in both the squads? I'm getting to the point where I don't actually give a **** what Adebayor's done. This is ridiculous. People jump on the bandwagon and claim that he's always been trouble and he's lazy but frankly 95% of this is bollocks. It's a thing that's been repeated so many times that most people just think it's true for no very good reason.

Either the club need to come out and make it clear what the very, very serious misbehaviour of Ade's was and hence why he can never play for the club again or simply stop cutting their nose to spite their face. Because this is absolutely the most ridiculous position that I've ever seen the club put itself in.
 
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lennypops said:
Wow. So no Adebayor in either the BPL or Europa squads. Amazing - especially since there are only 21 in our BPL squad.

I mean seriously - how the hell do the club think it's OK to name ONE striker in both the squads? I'm getting to the point where I don't actually give a **** what Adebayor's done. This is ridiculous. People jump on the bandwagon and claim that he's always been trouble and he's lazy but frankly 95% of this is bollocks. It's a thing that's been repeated so many times that most people just think it's true for no very good reason.

Either the club need to come out and make it clear what the very, very serious misbehaviour of Ade's was and hence why he can never play for the club again or simply stop cutting their nose to spite their face. Because this is absolutely the most ridiculous position that I've ever seen the club put itself in.
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There must have been something exceptionally serious about the whole Stamina-gate saga, since all 3 ring leaders plus a 4th who passively assisted them in their dressing room 'coup' against the youngsters are no longer at the club - a term that can now be applied to Ade too.

You hear so many different tin hat conspiracies about what was or wasn't said during that spat, but the general consensus seems to be that it was the worst dressing room fallout we've had in donkeys years, and that Adebayor was the primary instigator, more so than Kaboul, Capoue or Lennon.
 
Citizen Kane said:
There must have been something exceptionally serious about the whole Stamina-gate saga, since all 3 ring leaders plus a 4th who passively assisted them in their dressing room 'coup' against the youngsters are no longer at the club - a term that can now be applied to Ade too.

You hear so many different tin hat conspiracies about what was or wasn't said during that spat, but the general consensus seems to be that it was the worst dressing room fallout we've had in donkeys years, and that Adebayor was the primary instigator, more so than Kaboul, Capoue or Lennon.
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It just seems odd to me that it was *so* serious that those involved were (partially) frozen out then sold, unable to ever play for the first team again and yet not so very serious that they cannot be sacked.

I can't think of a precedent but players surely can be sacked, no? Serious misconduct and the like? I know that clubs would barely ever want to do it but if, say, a player punches the manager then they can just be sacked like in any other job, no?

So if what happened was not *so* serious Adebayor cannot be sacked is it really, really necessary for management to utterly outcast a player like this? Surely part of strong leadership is to show that you can, once they've been punished, reintegrate dissidents into your team.

Why is Poch etc *so* unable to have Ade in the dressing room? It's a little worrying that such drastic measures need to be taken when a player or group of players don't toe the line. It speaks of a certain amount of leadership weakness if anything. Though I'm speculating of course - like we all are.
 
Of course there were those Leicester reserves recently that were sacked. But that seemed like an easier decision cos they were just young reserves and it was such bad PR for the club.

Mind you none of them were on 100+k a week! So in that respect the incentive to sack Ade is stronger.

Talking of which I wonder if somehow the club are saving money by not naming him in the squad. Could a large chunk of his wages be dependent on him actually being in the squad?
 
Adebayor's behaviour could be due to mental health issues which would give us some problems to solve.
 
The club would have chosen not to sack them in the hope of getting paid some money for them. It mostly worked, apart from Ade
 
True enough. I'd imagine 'breach of contract' is quite difficult to pin down for anything but the most outrageous behaviour, such as what the Leicester prats did. Sacking a player due to breach of contract leaves the club exposed to all sorts of court procedures with the player claiming that the sacking was unjustified and all wages are owed etc. You see the craziest bust-ups happening all the time - I mean look at the stuff Balotelli got up to at City - he even had a wrestling match with Mancini in a training session yet still wasn't sacked - partly because he was still just about doing a job on the pitch, but also because his wages would've been astronomical, he was at the beginning of his contract, and the club couldn't risk a counter claim in court for damages.

Keeping it quiet and simply selling them at the end of the season is probably the best solution, and it worked with the notable exception of our favourite striker.
 
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