Adebayor seals £5m Spurs return
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Spurs seal £6m Adebayor deal as striker makes permanent move from Manchester City
Deal me in: Emmanuel Adebayor is joining Spurs on a permanent basis
Tottenham have finally agreed a deal with Manchester City over the permanent transfer of Emmanuel Adebayor.
Striker Adebayor, who spent last season on loan at White Hart Lane, returns to London in a £6million move.
The former Arsenal man is set to become Spurs' highest-paid player, although he will be taking a cut on the £160,000 a week he was on at City.
Adebayor had three and a half years with the Gunners before joining City for £25m in 2009.
But he fell down the pecking order when Mark Hughes was sacked and Roberto Mancini took over as boss.
The Togolese forward was sent on loan to Real Madrid on loan in January 2011 before joining Spurs last summer.
As a former Gunner, he won over the fans with 18 goals in all competitions.
Adebayor joins new recruits Jan Vertonghen and Gylfi Sigurdsson as Andre Villas-Boas shapes his squad for the start of the Premier League campaign.
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6m is a steal for adebayor. he is worth at least 15m.
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The lucky train don't always come by, you have to have all the right ingredients at the right time...
He doesn't want to play for Mancini...
Mancini doesn't want him...
He has found happiness at Spurs...
City want to cut down on their wage bills...
He left a year to his contract at City...
Last chance for City to get anything before he walks free...
And, Spurs need a big name striker...
Agree he is worth more than $6m.
But all the right moment came together... He is willing to take a pay cut as he only left one last year on $160k. Willing to forego that with a sign on fee and a new 3, 4 years contract...
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Ade wages war
MONEY TALKS ... Emmanuel AdebayorTOTTENHAM target Emmanuel Adebayor is threatening to see out the remainder of his contract at Manchester City.
The striker, 28, is unhappy at being asked to take a £3million-a-year pay cut to join Spurs.
A close pal confirmed: “Manu is digging his heels in and I don’t think this is going to be sorted any time soon.
“He’s the sort of guy who will see out his contract rather than cave in.”
The two clubs agreed a £6m deal last week but Adebayor, who last played for City in December 2010, is stalling on the move because of the huge gulf in wages.
City paid Arsenal £25m for Adebayor in 2009 and he still has two years left on his £175,000-a-week contract at the Etihad.
Spurs’ offer of a four-year deal comes nowhere near so Adebayor, who scored 18 goals on loan at White Hart lane last season, is holding out for a sizeable increase from the Londoners or a big pay-off from City.
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terrible pay scale.
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Gone for nothing? Emmanuel Adebayor could leave Man City for free
Adebayor's potential move to Spurs collapsing over terms, leaves City facing a £12m loss on striker
Feeling blue: Adebayor was loaned out to Spurs for the season, but Man City can't seem to flog him
Manchester City are facing the prospect of handing Emmanuel Adebayor a free transfer.
And that would take the amount of talent written off by boss Roberto Mancini towards £90million.
The Blues are furious that, after agreeing a cut-price £6m deal with Tottenham for a player they valued at £12m, the move is collapsing over personal terms.
City were desperate to save Adebayor’s £170,000-a-week wages – and remove a major obstacle stopping them making a £20m raid for Arsenal’s Robin van Persie.
The champions told chairman Daniel Levy that they would accept a cut-price fee of £6m to help Spurs offer Adebayor a package close to the wages he earns at the Etihad.
City feel Levy has now backtracked – a move forcing them to examine the prospect of either allowing the former Arsenal hit-man to leave for free or giving him a pay-off to compensate him for the money he will lose on the final two years of his contract.
A City insider said: “It was felt there was two ways to handle Adebayor. Either we could ask for a fee in excess of £10m knowing we would have to spend perhaps half of that compensating the player for lost earnings.
“Or, by asking £6m, the buying club would be able to offer wages acceptable to Adebayor.
“Tottenham knew that was our intention. Now they want us to accept the lower fee and pay Adebayor off.
“Basically they want a player who scored the goals that took them to fourth place in the Premier League last season for nothing.”
Sunday Mirror Sport can reveal that signing Van Persie will remain an impossible dream while Adebayor stays.
Mancini has issued a thinly-veiled attack on the failure of City’s football administrator Brian Marwood to land his No.1 target.
But even if City doubled their initial £15m offer to tempt the Gunners, Van Persie will not join the same club as Adebayor.
The Dutchman still hasn’t forgiven his former Emirates team-mate for the stamp which left him nursing a head wound and earned Adebayor a three-match ban for violent conduct when City beat Arsenal 4-2 in an explosive encounter in September 2009.
Like City, Manchester United and Juventus will not meet Arsenal’s £30m valuation.
But Adebayor’s continuing presence at the Etihad is a stumbling block for City.
Merry-go-round: Adebayor and Robin Van Persie could both be moving clubs this summer
Mancini is unhappy that Marwood has been unable to offload both Adebayor and Roque Santa Cruz. But City have already lost more than £45m of the £431m they have spent in transfer fees since Sheikh Mansour took over the club in August 2008.
They have also lost another fortune subsidising wages to compensate for the loss of earnings once a player leaves the club, either on loan or permanently.
Santa Cruz, a £17.5m buy from Blackburn, is available for free but clubs are reluctant to match the £90,000-a-week wages he will earn in the final year of his contract.
If he and Adebayor leave for free, that will wipe another £42.5m off the players Sheikh Mansour has bought.
Kolo Toure, a £16m buy from Arsenal, can go for £5m. And £16m Nigel de Jong will leave for free when his contract runs out next year. Robinho, a £32m marquee signing who arrived when the Abu Dhabi United Group took over, was sold to AC Milan for £15m.
Craig Bellamy joined Liverpool on a free after costing £14m, while £12m Wayne Bridge will have his £90,000-a-week pay subsidised while on loan at Brighton.
Keeper Shay Given joined Aston Villa for half of the £6m he cost from Newcastle.
But Jerome Boateng was sold for a profit. He cost £10.5m from Hamburg but moved to Bayern Munich for £12.4m.
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if the owner can spend 1b on buying the club and player transfer, whats 12m to him? short change.
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It's not that they can't afford it's cos they are unwilling to lose money for nothing now mah... And every penny lost will reflect on their account which won't be nice reading when the fair play rules start to take effect...
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City now want to control their spending liao. Player like him will not be needed at City and why bother paying him to stay for nothing. Waste his time and waste club's money.
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Adebayor decided to take a pay cut
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That is because City decided to pay him his next 2 years in advance that's why he is willing to go...
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city is really dam stupid wor
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Cheap transfer fee for a player that good
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united should sign him
