Good evening.
Gregg Stobart is a correspondent for Goal.com and as has been highlighted on the COYS forum earlier today, there are some interesting interesting suggestions by him in relation to this transfer saga via Stobart’s Twitter account, @gstobart.
The situation was relatively straightforward. Adebayor and City have a contract whereby he is due (let’s say) £175k a week.
So if somebody else wants to take him the player has a choice to either take a pay cut (if City are willing to sell him) or for City to subsidise his salary, the latter happened while he was loaned to Spurs.
It was said by a few (yes, including me) that he had signed. He’d agreed terms with Spurs and this was communicated to City. City agreed to continue to subsidise him in order to lessen their load for a player that wasn’t ever going to kick a ball for them again.
So at this point, Adebayor is all set to formally join Spurs.
Then we get this line about Adebayor not wanting his charity to suffer. But his charity wouldn’t beacause he’d be in receipt of the same monies that he was at City and while on loan, the partially subsidised £175,000 a week.
Stobart claims that Adebayor has now announced that he wants the £4M transfer fee which was set to pass from Spurs to Manchester City …to instead be handed …directly to him.
Which would in effect result in Manchester City letting him go ‘on a free’.
I understand that footballers want to keep their financial affairs low key as not everyone ‘admires’ the vast amounts of cold hard cash that they earn in return for kicking a ball about.
But given that so many elements of this tale are in the public domain, now is the time for Adebayor to – as they say in certain parts of the North of England – shat or get off the pot. He should step out of the shadows and make a statement and put the record straight.
The Spurs end of this were sewn up a good few weeks ago. City hummed and harred but decided as I say to cut their losses.
I believe that Stobart could well have got the goods on Ade here. If so, this ‘playing the charity card’ stunt is in poor taste.
Heard it several times so Goal are just re-iterating what has already been made known.
As I understand it City pay part of his wages in years 1 and 2, we pay a signing on fee which leaves him about £5.2 million short over 4 years and he has asked City to pay a donation to his charity to cover that amount.
Nothing has moved for the last few weeks.
Do you think his Charity account might be in Malta, in the name of ‘Rosie 2’
The long and the short, not to beat around the bush, and to put it into perspective… if we take him on, at whatever cost to us, what’s to stop him having another strop and not being bothered, thus, we would need to loan him, or sell him. I doubt we would end up being ‘quids in’, in the end! We need quality strikers up front before the start of the season, and Ade, I don’t think will deliver the goods.
Is Ade really that good? He can’t control the ball, he misses too many sure goals with his soft kick, and his energy level is unpredictable at best.
To top it off, 17 goals (many of them penalties) is not the production a championship team needs. Face it, Manu might not be Pav or Crouchie, but he isn’t RVP, Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Tevez, Torres, or ANY of the high scoring goal demons top flight teams have.
We need someone to score 25-30 goals. Manu it s not. Sign him and we still need a first rate striker.
No he definitely is very good. Very difficult for clubs us to get hold of class strikers. He is the best thing we have had since Berbatov. He was the most influential player in the % of our goals last season. I think 20% higher than anyone else.. there is an article somewhere on Newsnow about it.
I agree he is not like RVP, Rooney, Tevez..etc… but he is only a slither below them and where are we going to get one of those? Might as well secure Ade and then go for a Llorente, Levondonski (sorry, no idea how to spell it), Diamiao (sorry again)… the latter being my preference but either would be amazing.
After that we need a Modric replacement (obvy) then we should be okay. Right now we are looking a very thin team.
Quite worrying actually. I am sure it will be fine.
Ade as a striker is overated, most of his 17 goals were penalties or tap ins. Defoe also scored 17 goals but has been lergely ignored by spurs fans, his conversion rate was MUCH better than Ade. Unfortunately Ades height and weight made him more suitable as lone frontman. Wed be better off with Sturridge. At end of day chances must be converted, how many easy ones did ade miss….
Sturridge is pony. You think Defoe is selfish? Sturridge takes selfishness to a whole new level. Chav’s would piss themselves laughing if we took him off their hands.
Amen to that. Never been a fan of Sturridge, another Carlton Cole, give him a couple of seasons and he’ll be at QPR.
Yes I really really think Defoe is selfish
Very, very selfish..
He’s positively altruistic when compared to Sturridge.
I have a feeling that Liverpool are going to play a hand in this saga with us left with egg on boatraces
They are trying to shift Carrol to anyone who will have him in order to get Ade, even if they get him on loan, he would be free to cash in next summer in Russia or some desert playing football field!
Thats my 2p worth!!!!!!!!
I have a feeling that we are going 2 get andy carroll
Nonsense. Carroll is aiming for a Robbie Keane ending – Escaping from Liverpool back to the club who made him most famous, although in this case it’s Newcastle.