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Adebayor – Good Business for Spurs, Bad Business for City

It’s baffling news to me that Tottenham Hotspur are in talks with Manchester City over a potential loan deal for out-of-favour striker Emmanuel Adebayor. I can’t see any positive for Mancini’s men in allowing a proven goalscorer to join one of their main rivals in the league without recouping a single penny (and if you believe some reports they’ll still be covering a portion of his wages). I understand that Manchester City want to offload the 27 year old Togolese player as he does not figure in Mancini’s plans, but with no clubs showing serious interest from abroad the only wise thing to do is to keep him in the Reserves rather than join another Premier League side. It’s not like City need him off the payroll in order to balance the books.

 

It is obvious why a club like Tottenham would love to get their hands on Adebayor. His goal record in the Premier League is second to none. In his two and a half seasons spent at North London rivals Arsenal, Adebayor netted 62 times. In his first season at Eastlands he scored 14, and in his loan spell at Real Madrid during the second half of last season he scored 7 goals from only 9 starts. He doesn’t bring as much to a team as a Rooney or a Drogba, but with potentially so many creative players around him in the Spurs side, one thing he can do is put the ball in the net. If Harry Redknapp succeeds in recruiting Adebayor for his side then his goals could prove to be the difference between the White Hart Lane outfit who fell short of the all-important Champions League places last season, and pushing the top two or three in the league come the end of the season.

 

One theory in determining why Roberto Mancini and the Manchester City owners would be willing to let Adebayor go to Spurs would be that they don’t consider Redknapp’s men to be a threat to their title challenge whether they have Adebayor or not. And I wonder how Tottenham fans must feel about that. The only other theory might be that they believe Adebayor’s disruptive personality will have more of negative impact than positive on the Tottenham squad and will effectively sabotage their challenge from within. If that is the case; it is a very risky manoeuvre as I would back Harry Redknapp to manage any such situation.

 

Whatever the motivations for Manchester City allowing this deal to take place, the only party set to lose out is themselves – Emmanuel Adebayor will be back playing regular football and Tottenham Hotspur will get the goals they need in order to better their challenge from last season.

 

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