If Adebayor is genuinely demanding we pay his contract in full before he moves (effectively asking to be paid twice for this season - once by his old club, and once by his new one) then it makes absolutely no sense to let him join another team in the same league.
If we have to pay him £5m quid whether he stays or goes, then he may as well stay and score goals for our reserves, rather than score goals for someone else's first team. As much as I'd like to see him leave the club, there's no financial gain for us to pay him the full amount of his contract.
Perhaps he'll be able to resurrect his career in Qatar or China next year. If not, I hope he puts this year's wages from Spurs into a decent pension plan, because he's rapidly making himself unemployable.