“I would like to see one Arsenal fan who worked somewhere for £10 and was offered work elsewhere for £30 to say they would refuse. Yes, they offered me a very fine contract and I have signed it.”
May 6th 2009: “Arsenal put me where I am today – they made me one of the biggest strikers in the world. I have to pay them back. How am I going to pay them back? Make them win trophies. That is what I am here for and I have to fight for that. Next season, 100 per cent, I am an Arsenal footballer.”
May 26th 2009: “I am very happy playing for Arsenal, and this is what I always say. At the end of the day you just get bored of this – people read these things and then the fans will boo you for what you never said, but again I repeat that I am very happy here. This season I have given 100 per cent of what I have, and I’m looking forward to coming back next season and trying to achieve things. I don’t care what we have to do to win something – we have got to do whatever it takes to bring trophies home.”
July 5th 2009: Asked by Observer Sport whether Adebayor would be leaving Arsenal, Adebayor’s representative, Stephane Courbis said: “No, no.”
July 13th 2009: Adebayor in talks with City
July 16th 2009: Adebayor stalls on offer of £150k a week contract.
“When someone offers you that kind of money, it is a big attraction to people nowadays,” said Ferguson. “That is the reason they have gone there. At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.”
D’oh.
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it is kind of funny how the major news papers are reporting this as breaking news!! the whole world knew when Adebayor and his agent requested for a United move, and now they are reacting as if this si the first they have heard of it! hypocritical cunts!
Scott, could you give a link to the quote from Ferguson. I hadn’t heard that before, and would like to read more about it. He’s a good striker, but Eduardo is much better in my opinion, so if they can keep him fit, then they might not even need to replace Adebayor.
I’m not sure about the rest of you guys, but I’m sort of hoping that we will be challenging for the title with Arsenal, instead of Liverpool or Chelsea (or City … … … yeah right). I enjoyed the seasons when they were challenging us year in year out, even if they did win the league, it was a good rivalry (a little violent at times, but that just added to the accomplishment come the end of the season).
But citty is the gratest club ever, with the greatest support worldwide, oh shit it´s the other team in the town, just like that wanker robinho, let them come, let them come and well show them..let them come!!!! Put a big stick in their asses!!!
Right Anon. They are trying to dump this on Fergie’s lap.
“I would like to see one Arsenal fan who worked somewhere for £10 and was offered work elsewhere for £30 to say they would refuse. Yes, they offered me a very fine contract and I have signed it.”
But you have to ask yourself how much can a man spend in a week.
If you earn £80k per week its a nice tidy sum. I can’t imagine come Friday he has spent all his cash and is praying for pay day.
Now if you love your club as his says and someone doubles your wages you have to wonder what you can do with the extra cash. It’s not like he needs it, it’s just greed.
You left out the bits with him talking about Milan and Barca. Nobody except City wanted him at what he was asking. He’d fit in nicely there though, with all the money grabbing cunts.
costas.thats how big we are.newspapers know that if they wnt to sell copies united headlines are a must.most of it is crap though.
I’m sure Ade will blossom under Mr Hughes’ direction, just like Robinho…. wait a minute, Robinho was rubbish last season….
He wanted to go to any BIG club but money decided upon Citeh
They will just keep spending and spending and spending ant they will become ‘big’ for a while – but then… The Sheikh’s get bored and leave the club with an impossible financial position…
To be honest I would not wish that on any football club but it looks inevitable
That’s why us Arsenal fans despise the man so much. He’s scum and belongs at City or Chelsea, nowhere else.
Yes, Tony Starks…. it would be dreadful if the new owners pulled out and left the club with massive debts….. worse still, if they put the club into massive debt in the process of buying it….
As for Adebayor… only Shiteh could spend 25 mill on an obnoxious African bigmouth too thick to learn the offside rule. He will break down what little attacks they make, bearing in mind they have no defence or midfield worth speaking off, disrupt their dressing room and they won’t be able to get rid when they get fed up of him as the greedy overated prick won’t be wanted elsewhere, especially at those wages. In Fergies own words they have been ‘sold a virus’. Can’t believe the arrogance Shiteh fans now have on these blogs….. like they are actually going to do something….
test 123, cant seem to post a comment in the topic above this 1….
I truly feel for Arsenal fans on this. He is trying to compare his need for more money to that of an average fan. How moronic is that? Don’t worry guys. With comments like that, he is at the right club now: Mercenary City.
He missed yet another sitter last night, against Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa
Sounds like Ronaldo… except Adebayor has 0% talent and every Arsenal fan would agree that the guy is a waste of space.
I think Arsenal will sign Huntelaar!
Adebayor was hankering for a move all season. He wanted Chelsea, United or Milan but in the end I expect none of them came in for him and he was forced to look at other options. But if he can’t motivate himself to perform playing in front of 60,000 people on a regular basis, competing in quarter finals and semi finals of cups, then I don’t see how City can motivate him to perform. Adebayor nearly reached the summit of world football but he’s lost it all now.
MAN CITY have acquired a failure. In Adebayor, City will get 12 goals this coming season, then he will get lazier. Get off loaded to either Hull or Bolton. Just wait and watch him fail, complain, and move with your money.
A TOTAL FAILURE at your team.
Robinho’s comments today are also good for a laugh
“I can help Manchester City become as big as Real Madrid. It might sound ambitious but that is the intention of the club.
“We are going to try to be Premier League champions this year. If not, the top four certainly. In five years, Manchester City will be very strong, a big name in European football like Real Madrid and Barcelona. I will be in Manchester for five years to help it happen.
Even if it rains, it is not a problem for me.”
I know some local lads City fans, who truly know that Adebayor LIED through his arse (when he eventually signed for City AFTER Milan, Man United and Chelski REFUSED him) and he cried “Oh but truly Man City was always my 1st choice.” Sure we all believe you Ade-LIAAAAAAAR lol. Man City fans WITH A BRAIN know the players they are getting are the TRULY greedy fucks, who will always follow the money salivating all the way. Those kind of players are truly named mercenaries. But if City believe they will improve their team, then they have to do that and put up with it for now.
As for Ade-LIAAAAAAAAAAAR blaming the Arsenal fans for driving him out, what a bare faced cheek. Same thing with CARLA Tev who said “As far as I know, I was kicked out of Man UNited.” How these players come up with this shit, and truly believe it themselves, well it beggars belief eh?
“Even if it rains, it is not a problem for me.”…what a jerk…
But when we talk about money…
July 26th, 2009
City Striker Desperate For United Or Chelsea Move After Leaving Arsenal
“I would like to see one Arsenal fan who worked somewhere for £10 and was offered work elsewhere for £30 to say they would refuse.”
THIS IS TRUE! Money is not the most important thing, but for every man is the most important…
Ronaldo did the same…
Happy he joined city otherwise he may have joined united. i would love to see united play strikerless but not sign adebeyor. the most fucking striker i have ever seen.
Oh the City players keep lie lie lying along, along,
Yeah the City players keep lie lie lying along, along.
We all came to the Man Pity, but NO not for the money,
We tell you all so honestly, it was just for the trophy.
So the City players keep lie lie lying along!
Oh some City players believe they’re Galacticos,
That into Real Madrid and Barcelona, they’ll grow Oh ho,
They just need John Terry, Lescott and then Torree,
Kings of Europe they’ll then be, oh how fucking deluded.
But the City players keep lie lie lying along!
Does City players have daily meetings w/ owner on how big there going to be?…mark my words Ade will be at Blackburn in 2 yrs. lol
He tried to leave last summer and we didn’t let him go, the result was a poor season from him due to a lack of effort and he became hated by the fans.
We wanted to sell him this summer and like its already been said, everyone knows he was offered out to Chelsea and United and the likes of Milan. That was how much we wanted rid of him, when have you ever know us to offer players to other big English clubs like that? That no big clubs wanted him says everything. That City are prepared to pay him 150K a week says everything.
Never before have we been so glad to see the back of a player.
I think Arsenal are much better off without him. I personally think Arshavin and Van Persie are much better than Adebayor. I can’t believe he’s that stupid to compare his wages to a normal fan. He doesn’t have to worry about money, your lifestyle won’t change much if you earn 80K a week or 150K a week. I think City are making a big mistake in their signings, they should rather look for young talent rather than just sign money grabbing mercenaries.
ade in manutd team neveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, he wont even fit in our 6th choice striker. ofcause in wastelands. i can strike better than ade and tevez available for 2k a week. LOL
I think the Goon’s right, the fact that he was offered to clubs who were actually in the running for the title speaks volumes. Fergie was right, he is a virus and United or any othe big club wouldn’t want anything to do with him. We will take O-dog on a free though….Thank you very much.
He is such a gobshite and I for one am so happy we got rid of him. We have rid ourselves of a greedy disruptive influence. People like Van persie and Arshavin have more talent in their little toes than this idiot who after one good season was comparing himself to Henry.
He belongs to City – I’d love to see him on the bench forever. May his career slide into anonymity.
Gooner77 – Hello mate. I’ve said that Van Persie is more of a threat in front of goal than Adebywhore, the problem is he is always injured, otherwise he easily has 25-30 goals in him. I think you have done well to get rid of that overrated cunt and have got a good price for him. He has a massive ego and thinks he is world class.
I hope to fuck Arsenal don’t sign the Hunter… I don’t think he will help much with their neat play and build up, but with the amount of chances they create if he just sits in the box he would score shit loads for them. I’ve heard Gooner fans talk about how it took Ade 5 chances to score one, well I bet the Hunter would get 2 or 3 out of those 5 chances… It could be a great deal for them.
The thing is Adebayor isn’t worth the money City are willing to pay. They are stupid for signing him because–as he as proven at Arsenal and with the Togo national team–he is poison and not a team player. Adebayor has shown that he is a player of very poor character, he really only had one great season for Arsenal and was mediocre this past year, he is lazy and Arsenal has done a great bit of business by selling him for way more money than he is worth. City is going to demonstrate that you can’t simply buy success and will finish middle of the table again this year; because in reality they are signing up a lot of players like Adebayor and Tevez who are talented but have shown their poor character in the media by bad-mouthing their previous teams and generally behaving like spoiled children.