7 ootball – Football News

Ex-Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor revealed it was Arsene Wenger who asked him to leave as the club was no longer in a position to satisfy his wage requests, adding that if it was for him, he would have stayed a Gunner.

Adebayor was quoted as saying by the Evening Standard:

I talked with the coach and he told me I was one of Arsenal’s best-paid players, that the club was in the red, so maybe they wouldn’t be able to pay me any more – it would be better for me to go.

I asked him, ‘Is it your choice or the club’s?’ He answered, ‘It’s everybody’s choice, from the whole club’. I was pushed out!”

Everybody says Adebayor went for the money. I think a lot of people are wrong because Arsenal bought me for five or six million and they sold me three-and-a-half years later for £25million.

So people should know that it’s not me who wanted to leave for money, it’s Arsenal that forced me to go.

Emmanuel Adebayor, “It’s not me who wanted to leave for money, it’s Arsenal that forced me to go”