Adebayor has an exceptionally bad agent
Adebayor’s agent has been hawking his client off to other clubs ever since Adebayor started scoring goals on a regular basis for Arsenal (the first claims I remember are from spring 2007).
There were noises in summer 2007 but nothing came out of it because none of the big clubs were interested, but by summer 2008 Milan and Barcelona took the bait and the result was a fiasco of comic proportions as Adebayor lied and gamed his way through every press conference doing his best to put pressure on Arsenal to sell him.
I don’t think Adebayor is a bad person – sure, he can do some stupid things – but his entourage has been nothing but trouble for him, feeding off his desire to be ‘great’ and consistently getting him into trouble with the Togolese Football Federation and Arsenal.
Most recently he refused to travel with the team unless the TFF president got on board the same plane. This isn’t your average conspiracy, this is a case of one person being manipulated by the people around him to the extent that he not only considers himself bigger than the national team but he also openly accuses the national footballing authority of planning to murder him and his teammates.
If there’s one thing Wenger can do for Adebayor this season, it’s to get rid of his hangers-on and get the boy some counseling.
I lol’d when I heard the thing about him refusing to board the plane, something along the lines of “if the plane goes down the president must be there”
Read the political history of Togo and its freshly ‘elected’ president and you may understand the picture a bit more clearly. And while you’re at it, do read about the hill of skulls…………….
Yes, and while I’m doing that, you read up on Wikipedia on ‘paranoia’ and re-visit the summer transfer saga.
I appreciate Arsenal fans getting behind him, and I would back him as well, but this isn’t about Adebayor, it’s about his ‘associates’.
Oh, do you need to read the article again? Might help re-reading the 3rd paragraph…
Trust me dude, I deal with paranoia in my profession(more than you could possibly imagine). Whatever his agent says, the fight between Adebayor and Togo didnt start yesterday and I dont think his agent has much to do in it.
PS. I’m not getting behind Adebayor, I sincerely hoped that he would leave and Bendtner would play more……………..
agreed that ade and togo have been at it for a while…