Manu the joker is no choker
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EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR has joked he will quit football — unless Arsenal win the title.
The Togo striker is so convinced his side will go all the way this season, he has even bet his shirt on Arsene WengerÂ’s Young Guns lifting the Premier League crown.
Adebayor, 23, said: “If we don’t win it, I will take my shirt off and call Arsene Wenger.
“I’ll say ‘Boss, I want to stop playing football’ because I have a lot of ambition and part of my ambition is to win the title.
“As a player if you don’t have an ambition, I don’t know why you are playing or what you stand for.
“I have a lot of dreams and ambitions with Arsenal and I know they will come true.”
Proving people wrong
Unbeaten Arsenal are three points clear of champs Manchester United with a game in hand — a position not many thought possible after Thierry Henry’s departure to Barcelona in the summer.
Without the French legend, most fans tipped them to struggle to even finish in the top four.
Yet ahead of todayÂ’s trip to Aston Villa, hotshot Adebayor says the Gunners have enjoyed proving people wrong.
And he admits the whole dressing room is already talking about repeating the 2004 ‘Invincibles’ campaign when Arsenal went a whole league season unbeaten.
He said: “Just a few months ago, at the beginning of the season, people said we are not even going to finish fourth in the league because Thierry Henry left.
“Now you see the same people on the TV say we are the favourites for the title and I just laugh.
“We have managed to convince them that what they thought at the beginning of the season was wrong. I am happy that people think we can win it but thinking is different from doing it — and I know we can do it.
“It will be very difficult because there are other teams like Chelsea, Man United and Liverpool who have all got good chances of winning the title.
“So we have to fight as we have done from the start of the season and then if we concentrate and listen to our great manager we are sure we can do it.
“All credit must go to the boss Arsene Wenger. I must say that even the players thought the season would be difficult for us because Thierry Henry was the key player who motivated us and gave us encouragement.
“Wenger advised us to just enjoy ourselves on the pitch and do a good job to prove to people that we can stand on our own without Henry.
“This idea and mentality is what has carried us through this season so far.
“We share the responsibility of Henry’s absence on each and every player’s head as we advise each other and encourage each other.
“We miss Henry and regardless of what happened he is a big player and a big brother to us.” -
i admire his ambition!
let's win BPL title for the sake of football!
save England by proving them dat we dun need overpriced players to win the league!
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if AW really sell him i laugh out loud
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but tnp stated adebayor not joking. so which article is true?
hat off for adebayor for having balls to put his career on the line!
wonder if any rival fans have the balls to bet if arsenal win the title, they quit support their beloved club n convert to gunners?