leighton said:
jimharri said:
So; you're saying that if the current situation with Ade wasn't happening, you'd still be questioning the whole loan scenario. Right.
Of course I would. Ade has done ok. Sadly we are paying part of his wages so another club gets the benefit of that player at a fraction of the cost. I just think that loaning for the top leagues should be done away with. IF the players want to play football they will move and will cut there wage demands to play football. At the moment its like the loan move is the easy way out for them to move and play regular football while still keeping the wages with both teams paying a part of the wages which is just wrong on so many points in my view.
It's a move that benefits both clubs and the player.
City had too many top quality strikers on their books (certainly prior to Tevez' Munich strop). And they had to start readying themselves for FFP. Something had to give. Problem is that Adebayor is on the kind of wages that only a handful of clubs in world football can afford. Spurs certainly aren't one of them. And although Real Madrid had a need for Adebayor in the second half of last season, they were no longer sufficiently interested last summer.
And though it's easy enough to say that a player ought simply to take a wage cut if he wants first team football, it isn't so easy in reality to kiss goodbye to more than £100K per week (as Adebayor would have had to do if he signed permanently for Spurs).
Without the loan system, Adebayor would have been training with City's reserves or, at best, sitting on the bench. And City would still have to pay his full wages. With him on loan, he gets to play first team football and City have made some necessary inroads to reducing their wage bill.