Wake up Emmanuel!!!

agreed on the wages front there Ox...

Reckon its wishful thinking on my part but got a feeling he will come back and either score or set up many goals...reckon he will work well with the new messiah Holtby...as i said wishful thinking

Yidmarks replace Parker with Sandro and i think thats our strongest line-up full stop...oh and maybe Kaboul for Dawson aswell

Adebayor needs to come back and start scoring goals.... not to save or rescue our season but his own. So far he has been poor. Now he has a chance to show he is the player he thinks he is. COYS

I think he's just trying to impress the point that he gave his all at the tournament amongst the criticism the team took. I wouldn't take it too literally.

i'm sure he feels emotionally flat after being knocked out in the QF's... I know we need him as our only other striker is injured (as though we didn't all know that!) but I can't help thinking it might have been better to loose him for another week, have him score the winner in the final and come back a hero and filled with pride. What we're getting back is someone who sounds like he needs anti-depressants. Think of your wage Ade, that should cheer you up mate. I know it would certainly cheer me up if it was my wage!

when were these comments made though? probably straight after playing 120 minutes. as the captain what is he actually saying other than I gave it my all?

How dear he be tired

well said tommy

I for one am still a fan. Yes he's been a shadow of the player that turned our attitudes towards him last season but- (has been said over and over) no pre season injured after a couple of games etc.... He was playing with Defoe in a different role,not that it's an excuse for a pro footballer to not perform. But hopefully as already stated, him up top on his own with Holtby (oh my god could have knocked one out over what i've seen so far!!) in behind a la VDV could kick start his Spurs career again. Lets show our support for the big man even though i along with the rest have agonised at his inability to hit a cows backside with a banjo this season! His ability to hold up and generally bully defenders is something we have missed in the last few so come on Ade lets start by putting them geordie tab smerkers back in their place COYS!!!!

Let me suggest what is really exhausting. It is the media taking every little sentence that a player says or a manager and making it the central theme for an article. Now we are doing it also. People say things which are stock phrases. Most have no meaning beyond that moment in time. Please let's not have a hundred comments on how lazy Ade is and how little he contributes in games. Give it a rest.

Mix and Guernman are closer to the truth - his comments were made after playing 120 mins in 30 degree heat and he wanted to convey that he had given his all!.........hopefully!

This is such a non-story.

He had better wake up

I don't and never did think (Ade & Defoe) the two of them on the same pitch together worked, after all when Ade was playing on loan for us he was the main striker and Defoe was on the bench, Ade brings a lot to the side, when his on his game, he has good movement, creating space for others, only problem was when he did this Defoe was standing in his way. Again we have 13 games to go, like i mentioned with regards to Scott Parker, Ade needs to step up a few gears, he worked well with VDV, let judge and jury decide once he has the chance to play with our young VDV aka Lewis Holtby, you never know in football, these two together could be something very special, I don't for one minute think Ade plays football to look a complete twa7, some say it's the money, well he don't need that, his most likely got plenty, what he needs is some TLC and goals.

Ade need's to get his arse in gear. It's time he started his season with us now. No EXCUSES!!. The fight for 3rd is on!

Latest reports are of Adebayor slating Didier Six publicly. Basically saying he (Adebayor) is the main man and cant do everything. There is still the pre ACN issue to sort out regarding AVB stance on him attending the ACN. Adebayors comments were he was going to see Levy on his return. Don't like this man. Don't like his wages, don't like his attitude and don't like the fact he knows and we know we are now reliant on him. Should never have signed him and it will all end in tears.

FRIENDLY INTERNATIONALS, please don't let any of our players get injured, i hate these games.

This is where Ade's season starts for me, match sharp, fit and gets to start in the position we bought him for, no Defoe gives this team what I've wanted since Ade signed. If he plays gets gobby and plays ***** until the end of the season then he can ***** off!

jacobslad it is a bit of a worry however Ade has not been horrendous, only a little disappointing. He knows he needs to convert goals and I suspect when he signed there was a few in house rules that were put on him from the top. Ade is a player who does not like management, he does however love glory, self glory and the crowd when they cheer him. A player of this nature is hard to control yet easily motivated. i'm not sure of the stats but I believe we played pretty poor during the Defoe and Ade combo and as usual our fans hack at the players. Players hear it and perhaps we should cheer our 'mercenary' like other clubs do theirs...

The acn this year what i have seen which is enough as been slow and a grind to watch it is that poor.the last few were right and good to watch.as for ade ,swap lifes and he will know what it is like to be tired 24/7 and still cant sleep.grow up shoutup and score goals what he is paid to do or stay in africa !

"The coach was not a help," the Tottenham Hotspur forward said. "Me, I was on the pitch, so I couldn't do his job and mine, I couldn't coach and play. I tried to do my best, but he didn't help us." "You've seen that I give the best of myself. I speak in the dressing room, I'm a leader, I'm the captain." Well said Egobayor, and welcome back.

strongest 11 means nothing, it's a league + cups not one single match

He'll be fine....and should be up for the Newcastle game, given he scored 2 goals in last seasons encounter. Hopeing to see...Holtby, roaming around Adebayor.....similar to VdV and Crouch.....vs Newcastle. Won't be a easy one, after Newcastles impressive win vs Chelski'. Fingers crossed no injuries this week.

Seems to me Ade is a complex character to read. At this moment in time we actually need him more tha he needs us and he will know that. Question is will that be good or bad for us? Last season he needed us because he was playing for a contract, this season he has the contract and has played less well. Are the two things connected? Who knows with him, but a fired up Ade playing well is a handful and we need it badly now through to the end of the season.

I agree, dissappointing comments from Ade, but, I think the tournament is still fresh in his mind and it's just dissappointment on his part that Togo did not proceed further. Hopefully he will be back in training by Thursday and his international playing will have sharpened him up for the rest of the season and put the goal hungry beast back into his belly. If there is a time to step up to the plate, it's now. We need to keep pressure on the 3rd place and ALL the players need to give 110% for the rest of the season..COYS

Glad to see some positive comments about Ade, on his day he is one of the best strikers in the league. If we get behind him for the next few games i'm sure he'll come good. We are about to enter a tricky run of fixtures and with BAE, Kaboul (if he ever returns from injury), Parker and Adebayor all relatively fresh we could get a few good results. It's the business end of the season and we are well positioned. Performances haven't always been that great but we still haven't played our strongest team (I agree with Yidmarks but with Sandro and Kaboul for Parker and Dawson). Hopefully this means there is so much more to come. There are a lot of doom and gloom comments on here sometimes (ok, all of the time) but I can honestly say that this is the most excited I have ever been as a Spurs fan.

Exhausted? He didn't start his season until mid-Septmber. He's been away with Togo for 3 weeks when he's played 4 games which is no more than his colleagues here have played in his absence. He has no excuse for being tired unless of course the weight of his head means he gets more tired than the average human being as he has to carry it around on his shoulders. Exhausted my arse. Try a real job for 40+ years and then tell me you're tired in your mid-20's on over a £100k per week. before your retire into the lap of luxury at the age of 34. Fecking footballers! Rant over.

Carew glenalough yid might just do the job to buzzel opposite defenders to let others score !

Two basic thoughts:

First, one shouldn't take completely at face values what one says at moments of great disappointment. The man had just lost an important match for his country on a late goal on a poor pitch and in a match with a sketchy referee. This result after a contentious lead-up to the cup competition with negotiations with his federation and country. And this after an experience with his national team in Angola in which some bandit political group has attacked the team bus and killed and wounded teammates in front of Adebayor. One might interpret his words in the context of this lengthy series of horrors and disappointments ending in a disappointing loss in the quarter finals.

Second thought: Adebayor has a history that suggests that he is a very complex man. I wrote on this site against taking him on loan from Man City two summers ago. Many disgreed with me then, saying that we should not forego getting on loan a player of such obvious skills, but I wrote that I worried about his history of becoming alienated from previous clubs. We all knew about that history. Well, he came and he shone for the most part in his season on loan here. Statistically he had the best season for a striker that Spurs have had for a long time. People write about Berbatov as our best recent striker, but Berbatov never has a season statistically as good as Adebayor had last season (he he was jobbed by poor officials on a couple of offsides calls made in error, which would have led to even more stellar statistics). He played well off the ball, be came back on the pitch in support of his mates, and looked everything to good citizen. I wrote on this site that I may well have been wrong in my words of caution against his being brought on.

So, on the strength of his stellar performence, our club took him on, we changed from a loan and made him ours by contract.

And nothing has been the same since. We can debate about what caused his diminished performance since signing on with us as ours, in place of being a loanee. He arrived after the training period a bit out of shape. He never quite got into shape. He has played a different role than in the first year here when he was sole striker up front. This time he played with Defoe in a partnership that most of the time seemed to get in the way of both men on the pitch. (I'm not at all clear that this lack of coordination was Adebayor's fault, it may well have been more down to Defoe, but that's best left to a different thread.) He has looked less energetic for the most part this season than last. His first touch never has been his strength and that's seemed even more the case this season that last.

The one match where he seemed to come out "with all guns blazing" this season was at Arsenal, where his personal history gave him amplified motivation, and he left us in a lurch with an early red card (which seemed overly harsh to many, but he did take a great risk with silly aggressive play that led to the card.) Since then, he's looked even more out of sorts and lethargic.

So finally, we must recognize again this history as a complicated fellow. Should we indulge this a bit in the wake of his African disappointment? Perhaps send him to a posh spa for three days to recharge his battery and get daily massages with sexy masseuses and twice a day mud batchs? Of should should our coaches shout him awake in a brutal introductory training session. I'm sure many supporters would prefer the later, but wouldn't anything in that direction only drive him deeper into alienation? A luxury spa, you say? Popplycock and worse. But perhaps this complex man would respond well to a bit of ostentatious love on his return. Perhaps he needs to be seduced and coaxed. Perhaps with some sweet talk when he returns to London, we could coax something resembling the on-loan Adebayor. Beats me. The man is one complex fellow who needs something special to be special.

One needs some patience, I think, after signing this man on, and he won't respond well to a place that castigates him. Great him warmly since he's here whether we're all thrilled about that fact or not. (Or, abandon all formations that use a striker and start playing some del Bosque inspired formation with the name I dare not utter yet again.)

Peace and love, me bredrin.

We absolutely need to beat Newcastle Saturday morning to put pressure on those around us. Looks like Cech is out. If things fall our way, 3rd is not out of the question. If our playersperform to their abilities, we will be in there. COYS

Sorry for the couple of typos in that screed.

it seems that we had agreed a fee for leandro before the brazilian club changed their mind at the last minute. certainly AVBs comments suggest that he feels aggrieved by the situation and reading between the lines I believe that he probably spoke to the player quite a bit and was let down at the end. The fact that Leandro publicly thanked spurs for the interest is very unusual and suggests that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes than we know.

He's only played 810 premiership minutes in total this season, which is about 9 games. I think if we are to see the best of him, it would help if he was leading the line rather than supporting someone like Defoe.

To whom was your question about gullibility posed, big c?

Total knobhead Not you my man .

spurspanther thinking the same about you

Whose more important ? NO I in T.E.A.M

http://news.yahoo.com/frustrated-adebayor-lets-rip-coach-six-053555651--spt.html

Yidmarks i agree with that team 100% although when fit and on form Sandro & Kaboom are immense players and would surely fit in. Will we have Ade back for the Newcastle game? And if not will we ever see Harry Kane be given a chance? And if not then what's the point of having him? He looked unready for his chance last season when he played although the guys so young still. He's obviously a talent & better than Obika... Why then isnt he even on the bench?

How many times have you played in Africa? You have no idea what you are talking about. A pathetic attempt at an article.

TK he's referring to Guerman's post about us agreeing a fee for Damaio..... As for Ade he's actually played 4 games in 12 days, and I do think his comments were after the game and not in general, I reckon AVB will put him on light training this week in order to be ready for Saturday, hopefully I will get to watch Spurs without Dempsey on Saturday!!!

Guernman don`t like your Oreos ? love em

DISGUSTING to think the premier league has 20 teams in it and only 16 of them are below us, what is going on AVB, I bet that's ENIC's fault, then again i could shell the blame on Levy.

I like Dempsey but he is not used right ,hell never be the greatest centre forward but he links up play well .
I don`t think Defoe plays well with anyone .Great squad player but he`s not a game plan player .I`d play Bale of Adebayor & stick Holtby with the superb Dembele .Holtby can be our Modric ,at least i hope so .

big c what about your favourite premiership player of all time Roy Keane? Did he ever have problems with his national team during a major tournament for poor preparation? What was his solution? What did he say about his manager Mick McCarthy at the time? phucking w*****, **** coach **** player or something like that..

lol...your not wrong there.......Nope dempsey a average player, poor first touch. He thinks forward before he has the ball under control, too much. No pace....reasonable football brain....he ain't getting any younger. Holtby roaming round Addy' for me.....like VDV did with Crouch. Last season, VDV dropped too deep, too often. This did allow modric to spring forward, but Modric not such a good finisher as VDV. Holtby..looks like he can a younger version of VDV, espec' when the young VDV was a striker in the German / Dutch leagues.

Roy Keane is in the top 5 of the EPL`s best ever players (imo) .
The difference is Roy Keane was a born winner & settled for nothing less .You can`t even put Adebayor & Keane in the same sentence .Arrogance is great if you deliver ,but deliver you must .
Adebayor v Keane ? Keane had the trophy cabinet to expect the best & be over critical .(But he was wrong )

The first time Adebayor touches the ball at WHL, the supporters at the grounds should greet him with a loud cheer, and do the same the next several times he touches the ball. To do otherwise can only encourage any tendency to go into a funk. Encourage the best in this complex man if you expect the best. Slate him off early and you encourage the worst in him. If you love our Spurs, encourage the man. Cheer him on. Don't slate him off.

Adebayor, he's our man,

he can do it,

we know he can.

OOOOOOOOWOOP!

Guyver But did Keane have a bad attitude everywhere he went ?

Guyver not mine he woudn't, these "MOST people" you speak for, could you provide a list? addresses and DOB not required.

BIGC agree mate swap Dempsey for Holtby he will link up play faster, better and do more work breaking down the oppo possession high up the pitch, it's so obvious it hurts

Tot'..yep' i see all that.......4,4,1,1.....i think is the best overall football system...and has been used by Sir Alex, for last 10 years. BUT.....cos' our players seem good at drawing fouls...and we are crap at corners....i'd like to see spurs trying 3 centre backs..2 wingbacks...3 central mid'...and 1 / 1. But i do Like Ekotto..thus 4,4,1,1..is also fine by me.

Oh I thought you expected me to run around the internet copy and pasting 100's of quotes.

top'.....dempsey doesn't do anything fast....falling over, the exception. He getting old.....i know the feeling...lol

yep' Big C'..i agree, Addy' needs a Haircut and shave......

Yep'..spurswho / tot'....but make him shave his hair off.( by ribbing him)...i.e..let him know who is the boss, before you put him into the side.

82, yes I have noticed that about him, he falls over, his skill set, a good buy for us me thinks..not!!

good one huddersfield........

Tired! Seriously, he has had almost a whole season off !

Luckily he is a footballer, would not make it in the real world ! COYS

If we want to be nasty to anyone, be nasty to me, not Adebayor. I cannot do us harm by being unmotivated on the pitch or by showing passive aggression when feeling aggrieved. But Adebayor has shown a tendency towards moodiness, and making him feel wanted and welcome when he comes back is more likely to motivate him in the direction we want than would be treating him like an outcast. we know he doesn't respond well when he seems to feel that way.

So, better to take out frustrations of the Old Knobhead than to boo our players on the pitch.

Let me die for their sins, but castigate not the returning prodigal.

lol at the grandiosity of the image!

TK I doubt very much that Adebayor reads Vital Spurs, and no matter what people say about him on here, whenever he puts on the shirt, he will always get 100% support from the Spurs faithful

"He will always get 100% support from the Spurs faithful " ?

Respect is a 2 way thing .Players who put 100% in ,will always get 100% support ,whilst they wear that Spurs shirt .But they themselves must do their part .

Always said it and haven't changed my mind about Ade is is not the right man for Spurs and we should not have signed him. He has too much going on in his head to be consistent for a club. We need players that don't have so much baggage who don't need their egos massaging players that want to play for us and players that will fight for the team. waste of money, poor decision whoever made it when they signed him. I don't actually think he is actually that good. His hold up play and first touch is woeful. His goal scoring is not prolific either at times. He has this knack of doing well for a season then everything becoming complicated. We should have known that and realised we had that from in when on loan and second season would follow suit to how he has been at previous clubs but we didn't we got sucked in imo.

Now we have to probably play him unless Dempsey and new boy Holtby can deliver. Each game the longer we go without scoring with Dempsey on the pitch the more likely Ade will need to be on it. Unless he gets straight into scoring we are going to come unstuck for getting goals. We have to massage Ade ego if we want to get the best out of him even if it is fake. I want him to go in the summer and I want at least two new strikers brought in with Defoe as back up, if he is not happy with that role then get three new strikers and lets get on with it. Either way Ade needs to go in the summer.

"Always said it and haven't changed my mind about Ade is is not the right man for Spurs and we should not have signed him. He has too much going on in his head to be consistent for a club," thfan.

Yes, but he's here whether you want him here or not. I advised against taking him on loan in the first place, but here is is, and now the question concerns how to get the best out of him while he's here.

It does us no good to spite the man. We spite our own face when doing so, as said Saint Eusebia in the 1100s as she warded off rape by Viking raiders.

I have to say, I think that the home suport needs to give a lot more. Our traveling support are awesome and I respect each and every one of them. I feel that away the fans pull the team along to something whereas at home it seems that the fans want to be impressed before they go out of their way to support. I still sense a lack of support of AVB and that, to me, is somewhat unkind. We are 1 point out of third in a season where most expected us to be lucky to get 6th. People should be dancing in the streets, or, at the very least, jumping out of their seats from the get go. WHL can be incredibly intimidating. Sadly that goes both for the home club as it does for the away club. If we want CL and cup success, teams need to know that any visit to WHL will be one of the worst of their season. Just my 2 cents worth. Cheer on Adebayor. Cheer on Bentley. We're going to need all of tem to perform to ability if we are to get 3rd. COYS

Interesting thought that we ever will have a chance to cheer on Bentley! Who knows?

But we do know how sensitive a fellow Adebayor seems to be, and the lad needs to be soothed not booed if we are to get the best out of him. Perhaps we would be best served to have him move along, but he's ours now and I'd rather the Adebayor with 17 goals and 11 assists in a year rather than someone moping on the reserves or playing without enthusiasm on the pitch. At his best he's a marvelous player to have. We begged for a striker, and we have one who on his day is world class. Let's encourage him to play that way.

Bentley? If he does ever play for us again, let's hope for the best, not for the worst.

Total knobhead---Boooooo... I fell so much better...;)

I don't believe as City would have sold him within the PL at any event. He'd have been a huge risk, but he does tick all of the boxes except the distraction one. Doumbia is the dirrection I'd go now and I'd do it the second thewindow opens. If we wait for the Cavani, Suarez, Falcao madeness to play out the market will be out of control. City, PSG, Bayern, RM all looking at the upper end strikers and I would not be surprised if Chelsea didn't get their wallet out as well. COYS

alee...THFC and OL's...websites.....i suggest.

Thanks, I just dont want to get tickets and end up with the frogs inadvertently if I get them from OL

We hope lennon does well for England, tomorrow. I didn't like Cappello's handling of Arron.

Somehow Adebuyor has to raise his game but he is a class above many of the 5-10million so called bargain players suggested sometimes on here.

This season Lennons been close to his 2009 form, he's also played more mins than any other Spurs player, I hope he can keep it up for the rest of the year.

A question for all you guys who are critical of our scouting system (or lack of).... Who identified Holtby?. AVB?, Levy?.. Just curious because the lad has brought a bit of a spark to the team. Seems a snip at 1.5m, could potentally have been a freebie in summer. Similarly perhaps we could identify a striker in summer?

shedboy2 Ade needs a kick up the arse and nothing more. If he doesn't perform or can't be bothered chuck him in the reserves for a couple of months or so, that will make or break the lazy git

Ade needs a good kick up his arse nothing more. If he can't be bothered to perform chuck him in with the reserves for a couple of months or so, that will either make or break the lazy git.

"Ade needs a good kick up his arse nothing more. If he can't be bothered to perform chuck him in with the reserves for a couple of months or so, that will either make or break the lazy git," chrishove123.

This is the sort of thing that I include in cutting one's nose to spite one's face.

As Yidmarks said above, our very best team is actually available with Holtby and Ade. I think Ade plays better as a lone striker.

Welcome to the 4-6-0 train to glory, Madaboutspurs.

At this stage I think Obika has the better build to survive int he premiership. Ane still looks a little light weight. Hope at least one of these lads goes on to be a solid performer for us!

Ade needs some man love. and affection.. as in last year Harry style & spurs fans... then we can see the Ade we know he can be...... TK. 4-6-0 ? 4-5-1 will be our shape in Newcastle game..Ade infront of Lewis, the old vdv & ade system. Enjoyed TK's brief history lesson.. COYS

Total knobhead This is the sort of thing that I include in cutting one's nose to spite one's face. No it isn't, because if he isn't performing then he won't be playing in the 1st 11 SO he has to be sorted out and rather than have him sit on the bench as a superfluous sub who won't perform he would be better off playing in the reserves to keep his fitness levels up and make him regain that sharpness he had, ALSO it sends out a message that this is truly a meritocracy and that AVB won't pander to the can't be bothereds of the squad. I said in the first place we shouldn't have bought him as he would revert back to his normal useless self once he was under contract. We were warned by all and sundry, even Citeh fans warned us off him. NOW we reap the non benefits of having a lazy selfish git on the team who can't be arsed to perform now he has his contract and a fatter bank balance..

Bernio, nothing I have seen from Ade/Defoe indicates that i will be any different to any other partner Defoe has had in a Spurs lineup. Ade with Holtby behind is the way to go. Defoe on as impact sub to run at tired defences. COYS