Re: Adebayor
Gone for nothing? Emmanuel Adebayor could leave Man City for free
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.
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 thta is how it's happening then fuck off Levy you tight fisted twat, cough up or fuck off.
