He is Adebayor; today is his 28th birthday, and as a Tottenham player, he returns to face his old club. However, Adebayor's return has nothing tender about it forever. Before the game, Arsène Wenger said in an interview that he would never accept Adebayor back, much less re-sign him like earlier cases with Jens Lehmann or Thierry Henry: "Selling a player and then buying him back is meaningless. Once you make a decision, they have to go. We have our strikers—Chamakh, Gervinho, Robin van Persie."
Why did King Henry, wearing a Barcelona shirt as a guest, receive the warmest welcome at the Emirates Stadium? Meanwhile, striker Adebayor was bound to get "you can't accept" boos from 60,000 fans as a birthday present? All of this isn’t Arsenal being capricious; it’s because there are good memories associated with the Togo striker. In his early days as a Manchester City member, cheekily playing against Arsenal, Robin van Persie's wild celebrations when scoring goals were erased from Gunners' fans' memory. As an Arsenal-trained bully in those painstaking Feng years, Adebayor was absolutely one of the greatest disgraces in this club's history after Mikael Forssell.
Although Ray Parlour, in a Sky Sports News interview, defended the former star passionately: "He didn’t do it, it was just a performance, but if someone keeps insulting you and you’ve had enough, you’d do that too. This is what happened, I believe everything will be alright, Adebayor has the ability to handle this." But this doesn’t reduce Arsenal players’ hatred towards Adebayor, because just a week ago, Arsenal suffered defeat in the Champions League at Milan, and Adebayor still pushed forward, deliberately provoking Gunners' loyal fans with contempt for his old club. He even required back-talk putting LinPang “mind their fans.”
The Emirates Stadium wouldn’t let boos painfully hurt Harry Redknapp, who since joining on loan, has seen Togo repeatedly perform well, scoring 11 goals in 23 Premier League games for Tottenham, and also assisting 11 times, placing second in assists. In 23 games, he created 22 goals for the team with high efficiency. This forced Old Ray to include him in the first squad. Not only that, according to sources from The Daily Mail, because Adebayor has become a mainstay for Tottenham's upward momentum, White Hart Lane views 8 million pounds from Manchester City as a completely reasonable buyout price for the player's salary to join us.
And so, in the North London Derby, the former Arsenal No. 25, now Tottenham's No. 10, came back to the Emirates Stadium once all-powerful, carrying a gun into battle, challenging his old master.
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