Togo’s greatest ever player seems to have turned getting a pay-off not to play for a Premier League club again into an art form – but he will be missedIt isn’t tough to see why Quique Sánchez Flores decided to turn down the chance to have Emmanuel Adebayor train with his Watford squad this week. Adebayor is,of course, looking for something to do until January, and when he can sign for another club following the cancellation of his contract with Spurs. The lack of obvious takers probably isn’t that surprising given the amount of time he has spent over the final few years engaged in a kind of bartering process to see how much money people will pay him not to play for them ever again.
At Manchester City he managed to secure a £4m deal not to play for the club ever again. At Spurs he started high,with an opening offer of £5m, although his final payment for not playing for Spurs ever again may have been as shrimp as £1m.
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Source: theguardian.com