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Emmanuel Adebayor - Officially gone \o/
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Armenia Spur
Steven Caulker
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Whats not to like about Big Bad Ade right now? He's banging em in, acknowledges the crowd who once abused him to high hell with a salute and he hates the goons!
Whats not to like about Big Bad Ade right now? He's banging em in, acknowledges the crowd who once abused him to high hell with a salute and he hates the goons!
Re: Official - Adebayor
Mythbuster: Emmanuel Adebayor is unmanageable
The Togolese striker has fallen out with a number of his managers in the past but has found a new lease of life under Tim Sherwood and is leading Spurs' Champions League charge
On a Saturday afternoon in July 2011, Emmanuel Adebayor was kicking his heels in his Cheshire home, frustrated at being frozen out of the Emirates Marketing Project squad that had travelled to Dublin for a pre-season tournament.
He decided to jump in his car and head down to Leicester, where Real Madrid were playing a friendly at the King Power stadium. The striker had just spent six months on loan at the Santiago Bernabeu, where he scored eight goals in 22 appearances, just nine of which were starts.
Adebayor sat in the stands, watched the Spanish giants win 2-1 and headed down to the visitors’ dressing room, where he greeted his former team-mates before sharing a hug and 10-minute conversation with Jose Mourinho.
No doubt, part of that discussion would have involved Adebayor begging for Madrid to sign him - and if you listen to the Togolese, the move was only prevented by internal politics at the Spanish club.
Shortly after completing his initial loan spell to Spurs in 2011, Adebayor said: "Politically it is always difficult. There is not just one man deciding.
"If it was just Mourinho, for sure I would be in Madrid now.
"We have been in contact throughout all the holidays and he gave me the go ahead to go to Tottenham and I am very happy to be here today."
As Mourinho prepares to face Tottenham on Saturday teatime, much of his pre-match thinking will revolve around how Chelsea can stop Adebayor and boost their Premier League title prospects.
Adebayor has been in remarkable form since being welcomed back from the cold by Tim Sherwood in mid-December following the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas. The 30-year-old has scored eight goals in 12 league appearances under Sherwood and provided three assists.
From training with the youth team, Adebayor has become the most important player in the side and one of the leaders of the dressing room at White Hart Lane. He is almost single-handedly carrying Tottenham at the moment, and is directly responsible for more goals under Sherwood (54%) than Gareth Bale under Villas-Boas (38%) or even Luis Suarez for Liverpool this season (46%).
The general perception of Adebayor is that he is more of a liability than an asset; unpredictable and impossible to control or manage.
But is that really the case? Or has he just been horrendously mismanaged at points in his career?
Sherwood, Mourinho and Harry Redknapp all found a pretty simple formula to get the best out of the player.
Last week, after scoring twice against Dnipro to fire Spurs to the last 16 of the Europa League, Adebayor said: "I want to say a big thanks for the new gaffer, who came in and gave me my confidence back, gave me the stage to play on."
Confidence. That’s all it comes down to with Adebayor - make him feel empowered, tell him he’s special, massage the ego and you can bring out the best in one of the most talented strikers in the league.
"I would say Harry is similar to Mourinho because of the way he treats players and gives you confidence," Adebayor once said.
"That sensation when Mourinho said: 'Adebayor we know you are creative, we know what you can do on the football pitch' and he said 'go out there and enjoy yourself - I cannot tell you go left or go round because you know what to do on the football pitch.'”
Sherwood has taken a similar stance - the arm around the shoulder, make him feel important.
With Villas-Boas there was a clash of both egos and personalities, and the end result was that Adebayor scored just eight goals last season before he clashed with the Portuguese during pre-season and found himself training with the youth team.
Villas-Boas, like Roberto Mancini at City, simply refused to indulge Adebayor. In the end, the Portuguese’s treatment of the forward was one of the reasons he lost his job following a humiliating 5-0 defeat to Liverpool in December.
Of course, Adebayor is no angel. After scoring 30 goals for Arsenal in 2007-08, he fell out with the club the following season over a new contract and was sold to City in July 2009.
He frustrated Wenger with his attitude while he also had a poor relationship with his strike partner Robin van Persie.
Adebayor has never attempted to hide his attraction to money - much of which is reinvested in charities back in Togo - to the extent that he even threatened to sit out his contract at City before completing a permanent switch to Spurs in 2012.
He is Tottenham’s highest earner, the only man in the squad on more than £100,000-a-week, but in the last two-and-a-half months, at least, he has delivered the results. He is paid for goals and under the right manager that’s exactly what he will produce.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2014/03/06/4663806/mythbuster-emmanuel-adebayor-is-unmanageable
Mythbuster: Emmanuel Adebayor is unmanageable
The Togolese striker has fallen out with a number of his managers in the past but has found a new lease of life under Tim Sherwood and is leading Spurs' Champions League charge
On a Saturday afternoon in July 2011, Emmanuel Adebayor was kicking his heels in his Cheshire home, frustrated at being frozen out of the Emirates Marketing Project squad that had travelled to Dublin for a pre-season tournament.
He decided to jump in his car and head down to Leicester, where Real Madrid were playing a friendly at the King Power stadium. The striker had just spent six months on loan at the Santiago Bernabeu, where he scored eight goals in 22 appearances, just nine of which were starts.
Adebayor sat in the stands, watched the Spanish giants win 2-1 and headed down to the visitors’ dressing room, where he greeted his former team-mates before sharing a hug and 10-minute conversation with Jose Mourinho.
No doubt, part of that discussion would have involved Adebayor begging for Madrid to sign him - and if you listen to the Togolese, the move was only prevented by internal politics at the Spanish club.
Shortly after completing his initial loan spell to Spurs in 2011, Adebayor said: "Politically it is always difficult. There is not just one man deciding.
"If it was just Mourinho, for sure I would be in Madrid now.
"We have been in contact throughout all the holidays and he gave me the go ahead to go to Tottenham and I am very happy to be here today."
As Mourinho prepares to face Tottenham on Saturday teatime, much of his pre-match thinking will revolve around how Chelsea can stop Adebayor and boost their Premier League title prospects.
Adebayor has been in remarkable form since being welcomed back from the cold by Tim Sherwood in mid-December following the dismissal of Andre Villas-Boas. The 30-year-old has scored eight goals in 12 league appearances under Sherwood and provided three assists.
From training with the youth team, Adebayor has become the most important player in the side and one of the leaders of the dressing room at White Hart Lane. He is almost single-handedly carrying Tottenham at the moment, and is directly responsible for more goals under Sherwood (54%) than Gareth Bale under Villas-Boas (38%) or even Luis Suarez for Liverpool this season (46%).
The general perception of Adebayor is that he is more of a liability than an asset; unpredictable and impossible to control or manage.
But is that really the case? Or has he just been horrendously mismanaged at points in his career?
Sherwood, Mourinho and Harry Redknapp all found a pretty simple formula to get the best out of the player.
Last week, after scoring twice against Dnipro to fire Spurs to the last 16 of the Europa League, Adebayor said: "I want to say a big thanks for the new gaffer, who came in and gave me my confidence back, gave me the stage to play on."
Confidence. That’s all it comes down to with Adebayor - make him feel empowered, tell him he’s special, massage the ego and you can bring out the best in one of the most talented strikers in the league.
"I would say Harry is similar to Mourinho because of the way he treats players and gives you confidence," Adebayor once said.
"That sensation when Mourinho said: 'Adebayor we know you are creative, we know what you can do on the football pitch' and he said 'go out there and enjoy yourself - I cannot tell you go left or go round because you know what to do on the football pitch.'”
Sherwood has taken a similar stance - the arm around the shoulder, make him feel important.
With Villas-Boas there was a clash of both egos and personalities, and the end result was that Adebayor scored just eight goals last season before he clashed with the Portuguese during pre-season and found himself training with the youth team.
Villas-Boas, like Roberto Mancini at City, simply refused to indulge Adebayor. In the end, the Portuguese’s treatment of the forward was one of the reasons he lost his job following a humiliating 5-0 defeat to Liverpool in December.
Of course, Adebayor is no angel. After scoring 30 goals for Arsenal in 2007-08, he fell out with the club the following season over a new contract and was sold to City in July 2009.
He frustrated Wenger with his attitude while he also had a poor relationship with his strike partner Robin van Persie.
Adebayor has never attempted to hide his attraction to money - much of which is reinvested in charities back in Togo - to the extent that he even threatened to sit out his contract at City before completing a permanent switch to Spurs in 2012.
He is Tottenham’s highest earner, the only man in the squad on more than £100,000-a-week, but in the last two-and-a-half months, at least, he has delivered the results. He is paid for goals and under the right manager that’s exactly what he will produce.
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2014/03/06/4663806/mythbuster-emmanuel-adebayor-is-unmanageable
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
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Kingdawson
Banned
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I liked that a lot:lol:
I liked that a lot:lol:
Enter the Pitbull
Luke Young
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#sexybeast
#sexybeast
Cochise
Steve Carr
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He did exactly what we needed from one of our front line. When Eriksen was popping up centrally Ade was pulling off to the left wing area and at other times dropping deep and starting moves like we used to see VdV do. This in turn saw Paulinho turn up in the box on a couple of occasions.
He did exactly what we needed from one of our front line. When Eriksen was popping up centrally Ade was pulling off to the left wing area and at other times dropping deep and starting moves like we used to see VdV do. This in turn saw Paulinho turn up in the box on a couple of occasions.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
glorygloryeze
Jack Jull
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After Ade's penalty miss (and the fact that apparently since he's been brought back only Sturridge has more PL goals) is there a chance Ade's form will really tail off until the end now?
We know he is very much a mood player and I wonder if I should steer clear of re-installing him into my FF team (sold him recently after those two weeks out with injury and toyed with putting him back in for the Sunderland game argghhh...)
Thoughts?
After Ade's penalty miss (and the fact that apparently since he's been brought back only Sturridge has more PL goals) is there a chance Ade's form will really tail off until the end now?
We know he is very much a mood player and I wonder if I should steer clear of re-installing him into my FF team (sold him recently after those two weeks out with injury and toyed with putting him back in for the Sunderland game argghhh...)
Thoughts?
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I'd agree with this, he's still putting in a shift but he's not looking quite the handful he was on his return to the team.
I'd agree with this, he's still putting in a shift but he's not looking quite the handful he was on his return to the team.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
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Him and most of the rest of the team.
Had it been Ade making some of the ridiculous mistakes that other players have made in recent months I'm sure it would have been attributed to Ade's poor attitude.
I don't think it was ever fair to expect him to keep up with his whirlvind early performances, very few players put in performances like that every week and even at the start those performances weren't around every week I thought.
Him and most of the rest of the team.
Had it been Ade making some of the ridiculous mistakes that other players have made in recent months I'm sure it would have been attributed to Ade's poor attitude.
I don't think it was ever fair to expect him to keep up with his whirlvind early performances, very few players put in performances like that every week and even at the start those performances weren't around every week I thought.
Superhudd
Simon Davies
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Always someone else's fault hey Ade!
Don't know whether to laugh or cry at that.
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Always someone else's fault hey Ade!
Don't know whether to laugh or cry at that.
