A good year for Adebayor

I have no doubt that Mourinho would have liked to have this season with Emmanuel Adebayor. Although not a top striker, the Togolese was liked by the Real coach and offered different characteristics to those of Higuain and Benzema. The who once was great cause of discord between Mourinho and Valdano, who said to remove the site came to Benzema and waited until the last breath to exhaust your options to continue at the Bernabeu, had not had too many minutes with the Madrid club seeing the Benzema performance and the parties that the bench has been Higuain, but surely that Setubal coach would have given precisase games in which a point different from what you currently have in Chamartín. But Florentino was not the work of giving effect to the option and had to return to Manchester City, where you do not want to come and where he had Mancini. The solution was a new assignment, this time at Tottenham, and the decision could not be more correct: Adebayor has caught a great year at White Hart Lane.

As the spearhead of the team and senior manager Redknapp to implement the good football in midfield spur of Modric, Parker, Van der Vaart and Gareth Bale, Adebayor has effectively met its goal by scoring 17 goals in 33 Premier League matches being top scorer in the team ahead of Defoe (11) and starting as a regular starter ahead of English and French Saha. The African attacker thus complete the second best season of his career in scoring, trailing only the 24 goals he scored in the 07/08 in the ranks of Arsenal. The truth is that Adebayor has never been just a scorer and his numbers are not those of a killer in the area, but this year has more than fulfilled that mission and has not been the only thing that has offered the London team: in addition to their goals has also eleven assists. The African striker is a player who knows partnership in the final meters.

In Togo, Redknapp has found that before the end could not identify in Defoe, Crouch, Pavlyuckenko or Saha, and has already declared he would love to continue to count on him for next season, especially considering that contracts with the City and will have no place in the Eithad Stadium. Tottenham has fulfilled its main objective this year to reach fourth place giving access to the previous Champions League, despite their participation does not depend on them but on what the Chelsea in the Champions League final. No doubt the Spurs go with Bayern Munich, as if Di Matteo Germans beat the English fourth place will be for the blues, sixth in the league, and Tottenham will have to settle for the Europa League this year and threw in the group stage as the primary objective was to enter the Champions League. It is the reality of the current European competitions: for economic reasons is more important to participate in the Champions League to win the Europa League.

We'll see what happens to Adebayor, who has also attracted interest from clubs such as PSG , A French league which already stand out with Monaco, and also sounds an operation by which the City would be interested in Cavani, Napoli. There are many options to Manolito revalued after a strong season.

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