Is Adebayor kidding?? Plus some other stuff...

Morning everyone, hope you're all well and hope that some of you managed to catch the game this morning. My internet in the woods isn't good enough to get ArsenalTV online, I looked for some minute by minute thing but had no luck. I'll have more on the game and the players in the game, which include new hard man Vermaelen and our man Tomas Rosicky, tomorrow. I like to imagine that he came on as a second half sub and scored 27 goals.

There's a lot to speculate and we can do that tomorrow, today we're reserving for Adebayor. I had a huge long blog not long ago but my shitty woods internet deleted it all and so a few punched pillows, a walk and 500 kick ups later, here I am writing again.

Adebayor's fee has been agreed and Man City and Arsenal seem to be on fine terms but Adebayor is holding up the move because he wants a 3.3 million dollar loyalty bonus for not handing in a transfer request this summer. Is he kidding? I wish we could tell him to fuck himself but it's a clause in his contract and no doubt his agents and lawyers will fight tooth and nail for that money.

The whole thing is ridiculous. We went through it with Ashley Cole, who met with Chelsea illegally before the move happened. No he didn't hand in a transfer request but what's the difference, he spurned the move on and negotiated a deal when he wasn't supposed to and what happened to him for that? Nothing, except for the boo boys and a generally unpopular existence, but does he care about any of that, I'm guessing not. He's laughing in his mansion with his hot wife, while they float around their 0-gravity room drinking cocktails watching jeopardy.

There is something similar with Adebayor with his agents offering him up to clubs, very openly over the phone. You might think that sort of thing is interchangeable with a transfer request but I'm sure it would cost a lot of time and money to fight for that. Now I'm not sure what the hold up is exactly, surely Ade could go onto Man City and worry about his loyalty bonus another time. If there is some type of thing that holds the move up if the money doesn't change hands then there's a little more to it.

If he holds out for the money and we don't give it up and that means he has to stay at Arsenal then we've got a bit of a situation. He'd be stuck at Arsenal. He's already cleared out his locker and apparently said goodbye to all the boys so I doubt his return would be popular among the players. Wenger would surely bench him, the way he did with Lehmann after his press conferences where he called Almunia crap. He wouldn't get the outrageous pay raise (170,000 pounds a week) his agents have convinced him his talent deserves and when he did see some playing time, he'd be boo'd until he was deaf. However, we would be stuck with a sulky, selfish, extortionate fallen star who we have to pay 80,000 pounds a week to sit on the bench and pout in training.

At this point fuck him. I'd say the easiest solution is the quickest and so we should give him the smallest amount of money his agents and lawyers will let us get away with and punt him onto Manchester City and put that money to good use by buying a center mid.