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The Man City striker Emmanuel Adebayor is insisting that he never wanted to leave Arsenal, and claims that it was Arsene Wenger that made the decision for him, and he wants Wenger to admit it in public.

Adebayor said in an interview on Canal Plus (A French TV station): “It was because Arsene didn’t want me anymore. If Arsene has a big heart we can go on a TV show to have a debate and he will never say I told him I wanted to leave the club. Read the full article here

The Man City boss Mark Hughes is set to name a strong team to play the Arsenal youngsters in this weeks Carling Cup quarter-final match, and insists he will have no problem picking Emanuel Adebayor to face his old club again on Wednesday.

Arsene Wenger has already said that he will be making changes for this match, but the team is facing a third defeat in a row as Mark Hughes is going all out to win a trophy this season.

Adebayor was given a three match ban after the last meeting between the two clubs for nearly causing a riot, but Hughes doesn’t think that will affect him this time around. Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor can’t stop talking about his old club. I thought after he acted like a twat in the match against Arsenal, and was banned, he would stop spouting his mouth off.

No chance! Now he reckons that Arsenal won’t get into the Champions League next season, and that Cesc Fabregas would be the first to leave if that happens.

He said: “I think players like Fabregas will look to leave if they are not in the Champions League, but my focus is all on City now. Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor was let off with a fine for his over-zealous celebration after scoring for his new club, Man City, in front of the Arsenal fans.

The FA explained that the reason he was given a suspended ban was because they took into consideration the “extremely provocative nature of the abuse he received”, and the FA Chief Executive Ian Watmore went further and declared that the chants were “hostile and abusive” and should be stamped out.

“There are areas of chanting that go beyond what’s technically illegal, like racist or homophobic chanting, into what I think of as vile chanting. Read the full article here

Everybody has talked about Emanuel Adebayor leaving Arsenal for the newly-rich Man City and saying that he is a money-grabbing mercenary who would do anything for a few more quids in his pocket, but very few people accused Kolo Toure of doing the same.

Well now Toure has come out and admitted that he did it for the money

“All I know is that I can look at myself in the mirror and say I did the right thing [moving from Arsenal] because I deserve it,” he said. Read the full article here

The Man City striker Emanuel Adebayor is still maintaining his innocence over the stamp on Van Persie, despite accepting the charge of violent conduct from the FA.

He was asked if he had any regrets over the incident, and was quick to deny any fault on his side: “I am sorry Robin got hurt, but I can’t regret something I did not mean to do,” Adebayor said.

“Anybody who knows me knows I would not set out to hurt anybody and I would especially not mean to hurt an old team-mate. Read the full article here

The Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has come out in favour of Emanuel Adebayor, saying that he was only reacting the the Arsenal “idiots and nutters” who were abusing there old player all the way through the match.

“I’ve got no time for people kicking anybody or being violent on the pitch and he was wrong to run the length of the field,” Redknapp said.

“But it’s very difficult when you’re getting abuse through the game like he was. It’s not celebrating a goal that cause riots, it’s idiots who want to start riots.
“What did Adebayor do, really? If I had been standing there and we had been giving him grief all game, I would probably say: ‘Fair play.’ Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed that he was shocked by the attitude of Emanuel Adebayor towards his old team last weekend, but thinks that he will grow to realise how much the club actually did for him in the future.

Wenger bought Adebayor from Monaco for just £4m in 2006 after he had scored just 18 goals in 79 appearances for the French club, and turned him into one of the most sought-after strikers in Europe, and he just cannot understand why his protege has turned against the club that has done so much for him. Read the full article here

The Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was busy giving his thoughts on different things before taking the plane to Belgium and i’m sure you are all dying to know what he’s thinking!

First of all he was asked if the rumours that he was going to offer William Gallas a new contract as he has forged such a good partnership with Thomas Vermaelen. He replied: “I will assess that in December,”

“But they both look comfortable together, Thomas and William.

“It’s like you have a guy who scores many goals and the guy who provides the assists. It’s always difficult to know who makes the other one good.” Read the full article here

The Man City captain Kolo Toure has put the boot into his old team-mates at Arsenal for the way they treated Emanuel Adebayor before and during Saturdays game at the Eastlands, saying they all snubbed him before the game started and then picked on him during the match.

But he agreed that Adebayor was wrong to celebrate like he did in front of the Arsenal fans, but again it was because he was being jeered throughout by the supporters, while Toure himself was being applauded!

“I am astounded because he has received blows from all the Arsenal players,” Toure said in the Sun. Read the full article here