Here's the interview...
Agent: It's in the balance because a lot of it happened very quickly last weekend without the player's real knowledge because he was on his way back to join Arsenal for pre-season training.
He had an extended time away, he was in Togo so I think to come back and find out effectively that, you know, you've been sold or sold in principle it's taken him time to reconcile himself with leaving Arsenal.
Leaving Arsenal's not an easy thing to do so it's not so much about Manchester City, it's about leaving Arsenal and he's, you know, the deal basically has been done. Everything's been agreed, he's got a work permit.
I think he wants to take a little bit of time out just to make sure it's the right thing for him.
Danny Kelly: What do you think the timetable for that decision might be?
Agent: Well Manchester City have been very patient of course.
Danny Kelly: Well they really want the player don't they?
Agent: Well they want the player and in an ideal world they would like him to have gone with the rest of the team to South Africa on Tuesday or Wednesday morning but I think that was a little bit hopeful given all that had to be done.
So I suppose now that that time frame has gone away we would hope something would happen this weekend.
Danny Kelly: And this is not about waiting for any other player to sign or anything like that is it, this is purely about Adebayor trying to work out what's best for him?
Agent: No there's no other players involved in this, there's no other clubs involved in this but of course football being football the longer it goes on anything could happen but it's not a matter of that.
There's no-one else involved. He's just, err, it's difficult. You reconcile yourself to feel as though you're in control of your own career all the time and then certain things happen.
You know he should take it as a big compliment, as indeed he has - there's so much going on at Manchester City. I think he probably thought that if he was going to leave Arsenal it would probably be for the continent.
So, it's a long term contract, it's a big commitment and he's got to go into it in the right frame of mind, absolutely committed and, you know, hopefully he will but we'll soon find out.
