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- Adebayor last played for Tottenham at Manchester United on March 15
- The Togolese striker last played for Manchester City five years ago
- Adebayor turned down a move to West Ham but is still earning plenty
Emmanuel
Adebayor will pocket a total of £5.25million by the end of June next
year earned from not playing for football clubs, if he does not join
another side.
Spurs are still paying him £100,000-per-week, which will continue until the end of his contract there, which runs until June 30.
As
part of the deal which took him to the club in 2012, Manchester City
also agreed to remunerate him for the £75,000-per-week wage cut he took,
which the club claim they paid him a final settlement for last year.
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Former Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor (left) was recently pictured wearing a Spurs kit back in Togo
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Adebayor salutes then-Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood (right) and his assistant Chris Ramsey in April 2014
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Adebayor - here infamously celebrating in front of Arsenal fans in 2009 - last played for City five years ago
EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR FACTFILE
AGE: 31. NATIONALITY: Togo
Metz (2001-2003): 53 appearances, 19 goals
Monaco (2003-2006): 115 apps, 26 goals
Arsenal (2006-2009): 142 apps, 62 goals
Man City (2009-2012): 45 apps, 19 goals
Real Madrid (2011): 22 apps, 8 goals
Tottenham (2011-15): 106 apps, 41 goals
Manchester City refute claims the figures are this high and insist the settlement is significantly lower.
But Sportsmail understands
unless Adebayor finds a new club, he will have earned in excess of £5m –
a staggering sum – from clubs he no longer plays for.
The striker was released by Tottenham in September after not being included in their Premier League or Europa League squads.
Manager
Mauricio Pochettino made the decision at the end of last season that he
no longer wanted the player at the club. The 31-year-old surprised
Spurs coaches when he was offered the opportunity to continue training
with the first team but opted to attend sessions with the younger squads
instead.
Adebayor chills out at his home in Togo as he waits for offers from Premier League clubs
Adebayor, pictured posing with some personalised chairs, would prefer to play for a London club on his return
Adebayor relaxes with his gold laptop back home in Togo in another recent Instagram post
Adebayor
had the option to move to West Ham on transfer deadline day, but
refused to leave Spurs, who were willing to pay a percentage of his
wages, unless they paid him £5m.
Since
being released by the club, he has been spending time in Togo and
Ghana, happily picking up his wages posting pictures of himself lounging
by pools or posing sat atop classic cars.
‘I figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it,’ he wrote underneath one image. He is certainly doing that.
The Premier League's 26th highest goalscorer of all time (left) has been polishing his skills while in Africa
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