Mancini urges Adebayor to leave

He was only on loan at Tottenham Hotspur last season. He is still a Manchester City player. So the 4th place that Spur won last season was partly funded by Manchester City as Adebayor scored 17 goals for them.

1 or 2 weeks ago, i read and hear that spurs had bought Adebayor from City..the status of Adebayor in Spurs now is not on loan but permanent.. the news make me confuse

They agreed a fee of 5.5 millions but Adebayor is not prepared to accept a big salary paycut so he reportedly asked for the 5.5 million be his compensation for him to move. The deal is still hanging. My prediction is that Spurs will eventually get him by making an improved pay package for him. It is not easy to get a 17 goal striker anywhere for just 5.5 millions.

I actually believe loan spells are different from actual contract moves. It is akin to renting a house compared to buying a house. When you are in contract with the club, there are youngsters who talk to you, take your advise and look up to you. In a loan spell, players know that you are there for the short time, so though they respect you and may come for an occasional advice, they understand that the player is not going to be around for too long. So I would not really read too much into it. Cheers! Ram

He was taken in to score the goals. He did well. Since Spurs wants to sign him permanently, they must be liking what they saw of him last season.

Adebayor was not 'disruptive' when he was playing for Real Madrid and Spurs. He served both clubs well although these were just loan spells. It shows that he could deliver even if the environment is not prefect for him. Having to move from club to club may not be what he could control. I feel that he is a decent striker who can score at least 10 goals a season. He will see the reality that his salary could not be supported outside Manchester City if he still wants to play football. But is it right for Manchester City to chase away publicly a player without compensation when he still has a contract to run for another 2 years?

Emmanuel Adebayor is a striker with a decent scoring record: Arsenal 46 goals in 104 matches (0.44) Man City 15 goals in 34 matches (0.44) Real Madrid 5 goals in 14 matches (0.35) Hot Spurs 17 goals in 33 matches (0.52) It is professional football so naturally it is all commercially driven. It is simple to get rid of the money in the game - No more professional football. Go back to being amateur status - football players can not receive money to play. They have to play the game because they love the game. So now we know why Everton and Arsenal have not won many silverwares. All the professional football clubs have to be run professionally. If they spend more than what they can afford, too bad, they should fail. They would fall by the wayside. But there are also successful clubs who use 100 millions to buy a player because they have just earned 200 millions. And by adding the new player, they will make 250 millions next season.

I think that when they bought Adebayor from Arsenal, they did not have the re-sell value in mind as at that time, Manchester City was anxious to get good players to join them to make them a force that is capable of competing at the highest level in the shortest time possible. If they did not pay astronomical transfer fees, the clubs would not have sold. If they did not offer high wages, the player himself would not have wanted to join. So they had to do what they did to assemble a decent team. At that time, players who joined them were seen as gold diggers. Some players were reported to have said that they knew only the red shirt team from the city of Manchester. Since they won the League last season, I think they are now established. Joining them now will mean having the caliber and being ambitious as well as getting good pays. What a change of perception in just 3 seasons. Money talks and hard work pays.

And if he thinks he's got a better use for money than Manchester City have, he's probably right.

I think he will eventually leave for Spurs or another team. He is a prolific striker who can guarantees at least 10 goals a season - a player that is worthy of paying millions for by the ambitious teams, to stay up or to get that extra push to reach Europe. But the market rate for such a player is about 80,000-12,000 per week now.

I look at this from the perspective of a worker. His boss wants to sack him but is not prepared to pay him compensations. His boss found him a new employer but he has to take a heavy paycut. So he negotiated trying to get a better deal. Why must he move at their terms just because they don't want him anymore? No chance of playing, not even in the reserves, is a weapon that may force Adebayor out. That shows the fragility of a player's career. He is a top player and he gets that treatment. We can imagine what the lesser ones will get.

It was not my fault that the company wanted to pay silly salary to recruit me in the first place. If they did not pay me that kind of salary, I would not have come to work for this relatively unknown company in the first place. Now the boss thinks that he does not need me anymore and just tries to get rid of me without paying me compensations? Don't forget that there is still a signed contract that runs till 2014! What do you mean that 'he can't dedicate to the club'? Do you mean that he should ask "how high?" whenever he is told to jump? If he still wants to play football for the next 2 seasons, he should leave. But there is a difference in being pushed to leave and to leave by his own accord.