Adebayor In Talks With Besiktas

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Turkish outfit Besiktas say they are hopeful of signing Emmanuel Adebayor after lodging an official bid for the Tottenham striker.


Adebayor has been told he can leave Spurs this summer after a miserable campaign last season, in which he managed just five goals in 25 matches.



Spanish side Atletico Madrid and Italian giants Inter Milan are both known to be keen on the striker, but it is Besiktas who have made the first move.


According to their sporting director Ahmet Piper, the club are in talks with Totteham and have lodged an offer for Adebayor in the hope of completing the ‘dream’ signing.


‘It is certainly true that we are looking at Adebayor,’ said Piper.


‘We have made a serious bid, and that in turn has given us an idea of what Tottenham want for the player.

‘Negotiations always take a long time, but I hope we will get a chance to have a meeting soon.

‘Making a big signing like this would be a dream.’

It is thought that Besiktas’ offer for Adebayor was around £3million, but Spurs are keen to get closer to the £5million they splashed out to get him from Manchester City last summer.


Adebayor has previously expressed his desire to stay at White Hart Lane, but would move if he was handed a significant pay rise.


http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/04/besik...ver-dream-signing-emmanuel-adebayor-3868907/?
 
Drifter said:
Adebayor has previously expressed his desire to stay at White Hart Lane, but would move if he was handed a significant pay rise.
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I think Spurs should keep him until the end of August, he'll play out of his skin to impress other teams and get a transfer. Then he'll revert back and can repeat that process again next season......
 
Defoe isn't good enough to be a starting striker + Kane looked to be poor in the U-20 World Cup so they'll need to get 2 strikers if Adebayor leaves. If Villa and Damiao came in and they managed to get most of what they bought Adebayor for it will be a good summer.
 
Probably the most overpaid player ever. How he got the reported wages he's been on for the past 4 years is ridiculous, he's fecking shit.
 
Castia said:
Probably the most overpaid player ever. How he got the reported wages he's been on for the past 4 years is ridiculous, he's fecking shit.
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The big wind-up is that he's not shit but he doesn't give a flying feck.
 
If Sneijder hadn't moved there last year I'd say Turkey was about to be introduced to a whole new level of "not one feck given".
 
Pink Moon said:
He's pretty shit, too, to be fair.
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When he can be bothered he is a beast of a player, he can't keep himself motivated to keep that level up and the thing that really drives him is money. He was shit all season for Spurs and then at the end was putting in big performances because he was playing for a contract again.
 
Was an absolute beast once upon a time (at Le Arse), as good as Drogba at his best. Thought he was a dead cert to become world class. Some bad career decisions have cost him.

Fowler, Anelka, Torres, Adebayor ... Strange how it turns out sometimes,
 
Wasn't there a time he was subject to a £30m bid from Milan?

It's amazing how footballers can go from hero to zero in such a short period.
 
Teams should sign him on a 6 month contract and then release him. He only plays out of his skin when he's still on his honeymoon at a new club
 
I made a post in here inteded for the Wimbledon thread :lol:

On topic, is Turkey becoming the destination of choice for slightly-older strikers who can still offer something? Drogba's there, of course.
 
peterstorey said:
City paid £30M for him.
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City don't count given they fact they overpay in every way possible. And they bought him a year after the Milan interest...when the star quality had started to diminish. And Milan at the time were still regarded as one of Europe's finest which was the actual emphasis.
 
JazzG said:
When he can be bothered he is a beast of a player, he can't keep himself motivated to keep that level up and the thing that really drives him is money. He was shit all season for Spurs and then at the end was putting in big performances because he was playing for a contract again.
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good post.

the "hes shit" argument is nonsense. Sounds like some old fart in a pub shouting at the tele on his own....
 
He's been one of Wenger's best finds. Scored a bunch of goals for us and got good enough for us to make shit loads of money. Then spent the next few years pissing off a host of cnuty clubs with his antics and draining them of money they could have really used elsewhere.

Excellent.....apart from that goal celebration for City.
 
We bought him for £5.7M, bulked him up by 25lbs and made him into a PL centreforward who could score 25 goals a season. As Wenger said: 'Sometimes you put in a lot and get little back'. Mind you we got £30M and he's been a cnut everywhere else.
 
His performance against Chelsea (return leg) still shows he can be a good player when he wants it. Too bad it only happens once every 100 matches
 
ISSYNAZAR said:
Wasn't there a time he was subject to a £30m bid from Milan?

It's amazing how footballers can go from hero to zero in such a short period.
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TBF, that one good season said more about Arsenal's 'functional' midfield than himself.

Any striker could have thrived on the service provided by Hleb, Fabregas and Rosicky.
 
Guy Incognito said:
TBF, that one good season said more about Arsenal's 'functional' midfield than himself.

Any striker could have thrived on the service provided by Hleb, Fabregas and Rosicky.
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True, Greedy is certainly not a clinical striker. But that wasn't his game, it was his relentless running, his physicality and his movement that were they key to making him a quality player.

I remember Rio Ferdinand came out and said he has been the hardest striker for him to mark for the above reasons.
 
cesc's_mullet said:
True, Greedy is certainly not a clinical striker. But that wasn't his game, it was his relentless running, his physicality and his movement that were they key to making him a quality player.

I remember Rio Ferdinand came out and said he has been the hardest striker for him to mark for the above reasons.
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I think most football fans (even many City fans) were disgusted by his sprint to the Arsenal fans section of the Etihad to celebrate scoring a goal. That was absolutely sickening man & he'll be forever remembered for that in my book. Scumbag doing that to a great football club, or any club for that matter!

Shit what happened to the Togo team bus though (the shootings). Wouldnt wish that upon anyone & sickening that anyone would have to endure that situation. You dont get over that very quickly, if ever!
 
Red Hand Devil said:
I think most football fans (even many City fans) were disgusted by his sprint to the Arsenal fans section of the Etihad to celebrate scoring a goal. That was absolutely sickening man & he'll be forever remembered for that in my book. Scumbag doing that to a great football club, or any club for that matter!
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I'm a lot less incensed by that than by him fecking about and fecking off after Wenger made him into a top striker. Arsene is usually very generous to the departed (even van Cuntie) but as he said of Ade: 'Sometimes you put so much in and get so little back.'
 
Yeah but he's made up for it a bit by fecking off sp*rs fans for a couple of seasons and wasting loads of their money.
 
JazzG said:
When he can be bothered he is a beast of a player, he can't keep himself motivated to keep that level up and the thing that really drives him is money. He was shit all season for Spurs and then at the end was putting in big performances because he was playing for a contract again.
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When you take into account the sheer poverty some players come from, like Adebayor and Tevez, you can sort of understand why they have the attitudes towards money they have.
 
Yeah and we got £30M for the wastrel. But he should've stayed and helped us win stuff and made himself a legend.
 
That'sHernandez said:
When you take into account the sheer poverty some players come from, like Adebayor and Tevez, you can sort of understand why they have the attitudes towards money they have.
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Not really. If you come from a poor background you should appreciate when you have enough money to live far more comfortably than people who you grew up next to. Then think about loyalty and who helped you get there.

Tevez I have more sympathy for, since he's in hock to Kia & co. He is just used as a money-making machine by others.
 
peterstorey said:
Yeah and we got £30M for the wastrel. But he should've stayed and helped us win stuff and made himself a legend.
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Mad aint it?!

£30m for him is something else & i find it hard to believe that he felt he was wronged some how, even though he pretty much doubled his wage by jumping ship. I also recall what a wanker he was at Arsenal, when he threatened to retire from football if Aresenal didnt win the League that year. We're all still waiting & praying though!
 
Grinner said:
He annoyed me at Arsenal though...horrible first touch and offside all the time.
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You reckon? I always thought his touch was superb. Cant comment on the off-side view, that would do anyone's head in though. Inzaggi - now there's a lad who was always off-side. You'd think he never actaully knew the rules going by his rediculous off-sideness. What was it that Fergie said - "he was born in an off-side position.." :D
 
peterstorey said:
I think that was (accurately) aimed at me Red - I had a lot of fat finger trouble with a one-line post.
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Oh right - cheers Pete. My bad :lol:

Grin should really quote someone every now & then - atleast we'd know who he was slagging, instead of folk makin a bollocks out of one's self like i did. That was my Father Ted moment right there :D

So, these fat fingers Pete - is there a cure, or are you just wearing boxing gloves?

You & Grin being the resident Arse fans on here - are you's at odds, dick measuring etc..?
 
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