Port-Gentil (Gabon) (AFP) – Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor will return home and ponder his options after his country exited the Africa Cup of Nations on Tuesday. The 32-year-old former Arsenal, Manchester City, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur forward has been without a club since leaving Crystal Palace at the end of last season. Despite that […]

Lome (AFP) – Veteran striker Emmanuel Adebayor was named in Togo's 23-man squad for the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday despite being without a club since the end of last season. The 32-year-old former Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham star was released by Crystal Palace at the end of the 2015/2016 campaign after seeing […]

Lome (AFP) – Togo skipper Emmanuel Adebayor on Sunday mourned the "great loss to African football" of Stephen Keshi, the former Nigerian international and coach who died from a heart attack at the age of 54 earlier this month. Crystal Palace striker Adebayor was playing in an exhibition game in Lome organised to pay homage […]

Emmanuel Adebayor has joined Premier League side Crystal Palace until the end of the season, the club announced Tuesday. "Crystal Palace are delighted to announce the signing of striker Emmanuel Adebayor until the end of the season," said a statement on the club's website. Togo striker Adebayor, 31, was released from his contract at Tottenham […]

Watford manager Quique Sanchez Flores has refused to rule out a move for Emmanuel Adebayor and hinted he would welcome the arrival of the former Tottenham striker. Adebayor, a free agent after the final year of his contract at Spurs was terminated in September, has this week been linked with a move to Vicarage Road. The […]

Emmanuel Adebayor has been released from his contract with Tottenham by mutual agreement. Adebayor had not been included in the club's 25-man Barclays Premier League squad for this season or given a squad number. A statement on Spurs' official website on Sunday morning said: "We can confirm that we have reached a mutual agreement with […]

Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood has refused to rule out reviving a deal for Emmanuel Adebayor. The Tottenham striker had been in talks over a loan move with Villa – and been given a tour of their training ground – but the deal has stalled. Sherwood worked with Adebayor at White Hart Lane and had […]

Emmanuel Adebayor has revealed he contemplated suicide "many times" over a family feud which he claimed culminated in a knife being held to his throat by one of his brothers. Tottenham Hotspur striker Adebayor has published a third lengthy post on his Facebook account in order, he says, to respond to claims made by some […]

Mauricio Pochettino admitted his Tottenham side labored to victory in their Capital One Cup semi-final first leg against Sheffield United – and defended his decision to name Emmanuel Adebayor as his skipper. A second-half Andros Townsend penalty was all that separated Spurs and their League One visitors, with the tie very much still alive heading […]

On Thursday, I argued that interim Tottenham Hotspur manager Tim Sherwood should not count on Emmanuel Adebayor, the temperamental Togolese Striker, for Sunday’s match against Southampton.  But Adebayor turned in a performance fitting of a star player whose team was badly in need of a result. He ran his socks off and scored twice to […]

Spurs have scored only six open play goals in twelve Premier League matches and while the side has feasted on European opposition in the Europa League something is badly wrong domestically. Andre Villas-Boas spoke after Sunday’s humiliating defeat against Manchester City about possibly moving to a 4-4-2 formation to suit Emmanuel Adebayor. AVB prefers a […]