parklane1
Tony Galvin
One of the reasons he never became a world class player was injurys, in 14 seasons of first team games he only averaged 23 games a season.
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Emmanuel Adebayor - Officially gone \o/
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One of the reasons he never became a world class player was injurys, in 14 seasons of first team games he only averaged 23 games a season.
90291Spur
Paul Walsh
Adebayor, stirring it up!
Emmanuel Adebayor: Tottenham can profit from fractious Emirates Marketing Project
• 'Emirates Marketing Project is a sacred club but we can take them down'
David Hytner
The Guardian, Thursday 18 April 2013 22.30 BST
Emmanuel Adebayor has highlighted what he believes to be the fractious state of Emirates Marketing Project dressing room, a tension he claims can rise to the surface in "a fight or an argument on the pitch" at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker spent 18 months at City, after his £25m transfer from Arsenal in July 2009, and he rubbed shoulders with plenty of strong personalities, although many have since departed the club. Adebayor feels that Sunday's Premier League game is "decisive" for Tottenham's Champions League hopes and he believes that his team can profit from the fallout if City were to be frustrated.
"We are playing in front of our fans, we'll give them everything, put Emirates Marketing Project under pressure and then for sure, we have a chance to win because I was there and whenever things are not going their way, there will definitely be a fight or an argument on the pitch," Adebayor said. "That is how we can take them down."
Adebayor scored 14 league goals in his debut season for City but his relationship soured with the manager, Roberto Mancini, who replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009. Adebayor spent the second part of 2010-11 on loan at Real Madrid before joining Tottenham, initially on loan, but he maintains that he does not "have anything to prove" to City or Mancini.
"Emirates Marketing Project is a sacred club," Adebayor said. "I have a huge respect for the players. I've got players there that I can call family – Yaya Touré, Kolo Touré, Vincent Kompany. It's going to be important for me to prove how good I am but I don't have any pressure that says I have to beat Emirates Marketing Project because of the way they treated me, because they bought me expensively and sold me for cheap.
"Mancini? We are all human beings. We are all adults. Things happened in Emirates Marketing Project. I cannot tell you what happened and what did not happen. For me today, I move on. He has moved on. I wish him the best of luck. For me now, Mancini is just a manager I respect, just like Arsène Wenger, like Harry Redknapp and that's it. Everything stops there. I have to do my job for Tottenham."
The club, who are anxiously waiting on the availability of Gareth Bale after ankle damage, have endured a rocky ride in recent weeks. Their previous match was the Europa League quarter-final second leg against Basel last Thursday, when Adebayor missed one of their penalties as they lost the shootout, while they have taken only four points from an available 12 in the league to imperil their push for a top-four finish. Adebayor is determined to inspire an upturn against City.
"This will be the decisive game for us," he said. "If we win, the confidence will be back, definitely. We will have a chance to finish in the top four. From the beginning of the season, our target was to finish in the top four. Now we are out of the Europa League, I cannot say it is a good thing but we have to focus on the league. We have five games to go and we tell ourselves in the dressing room that we have five finals. We have to play them as finals and if we find a way to be in the Champions League, for us it's a very good season."
Emmanuel Adebayor: Tottenham can profit from fractious Emirates Marketing Project
• 'Emirates Marketing Project is a sacred club but we can take them down'
David Hytner
The Guardian, Thursday 18 April 2013 22.30 BST
Emmanuel Adebayor has highlighted what he believes to be the fractious state of Emirates Marketing Project dressing room, a tension he claims can rise to the surface in "a fight or an argument on the pitch" at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
The Tottenham Hotspur striker spent 18 months at City, after his £25m transfer from Arsenal in July 2009, and he rubbed shoulders with plenty of strong personalities, although many have since departed the club. Adebayor feels that Sunday's Premier League game is "decisive" for Tottenham's Champions League hopes and he believes that his team can profit from the fallout if City were to be frustrated.
"We are playing in front of our fans, we'll give them everything, put Emirates Marketing Project under pressure and then for sure, we have a chance to win because I was there and whenever things are not going their way, there will definitely be a fight or an argument on the pitch," Adebayor said. "That is how we can take them down."
Adebayor scored 14 league goals in his debut season for City but his relationship soured with the manager, Roberto Mancini, who replaced Mark Hughes in December 2009. Adebayor spent the second part of 2010-11 on loan at Real Madrid before joining Tottenham, initially on loan, but he maintains that he does not "have anything to prove" to City or Mancini.
"Emirates Marketing Project is a sacred club," Adebayor said. "I have a huge respect for the players. I've got players there that I can call family – Yaya Touré, Kolo Touré, Vincent Kompany. It's going to be important for me to prove how good I am but I don't have any pressure that says I have to beat Emirates Marketing Project because of the way they treated me, because they bought me expensively and sold me for cheap.
"Mancini? We are all human beings. We are all adults. Things happened in Emirates Marketing Project. I cannot tell you what happened and what did not happen. For me today, I move on. He has moved on. I wish him the best of luck. For me now, Mancini is just a manager I respect, just like Arsène Wenger, like Harry Redknapp and that's it. Everything stops there. I have to do my job for Tottenham."
The club, who are anxiously waiting on the availability of Gareth Bale after ankle damage, have endured a rocky ride in recent weeks. Their previous match was the Europa League quarter-final second leg against Basel last Thursday, when Adebayor missed one of their penalties as they lost the shootout, while they have taken only four points from an available 12 in the league to imperil their push for a top-four finish. Adebayor is determined to inspire an upturn against City.
"This will be the decisive game for us," he said. "If we win, the confidence will be back, definitely. We will have a chance to finish in the top four. From the beginning of the season, our target was to finish in the top four. Now we are out of the Europa League, I cannot say it is a good thing but we have to focus on the league. We have five games to go and we tell ourselves in the dressing room that we have five finals. We have to play them as finals and if we find a way to be in the Champions League, for us it's a very good season."
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Guardian fudge up. The telegraph has the same quote with 6 games in it - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...g-out-with-each-other-says-Spurs-striker.html
Sky Sports News also fudged up the other day. Doing a feature on the race for CL places, they showed us as only having 5 games left. Duh!
africanspurs
Justin Edinburgh
agreed
NaijaSpurs
Les Ferdinand
He is a taco. Considering how brick he has been all season he has some nerve saying that. How fudging idiotic could he be?
Armchair Expert
Vedran Corluka
Ay yeah, the old player says something in the press = were bound to lose now argument 
How come that never works n the opposite direction when Chesney or Frimpong and Wheelchair mouth of about us?
What a load of crap.
How come that never works n the opposite direction when Chesney or Frimpong and Wheelchair mouth of about us?
What a load of crap.
What do you consider 'idiotic' in his comments?
If anything - he's trying to rile up the fans on their side instead of the usual mongs booing by half-time
wheres AVB on that list of managers he respects
Presumably he was referring to past managers only
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
No problem with that at all. If you take the penalty miss out of the picture I think Ade has definitely upped his game in the last few outings, and just maybe this fighting talk is a sign that his head is finally focused on the job. I had almost written him off until those two games but I really hope he redeems himself in the the run in, as should all Spurs fans. He has 6 games to prove to us that last season was not just a once off and a good performance in this match would sway a few undecided voters back into his camp.
Robspur12
Nick Barmby
Well he didn't have to talk to the journalist at all did he? Everyone knows what they are about. Perhaps his energy would be better spent on the training pitch learning to trap the ball properly and shooting with some power!
I always imagined you'd be one of the last people here to turn on Ade
Ay yeah, the old player says something in the press = were bound to lose now argument
How come that never works n the opposite direction when Chesney or Frimpong and Wheelchair mouth of about us?
What a load of crap.
I don't think anyone's suggesting that we will definitely lose.
It was just a brainless thing for Ade to say, regardless.
You think a journo asked Ade specifically about Emirates Marketing Project's team spirit? Even if that did happen, Ade didn't have to respond as he did. Discretion being the better part of valour, after all....