Adebayor: Get at City and they will crack

Posted Friday, April 19, 2013 by The Sun

Adebayor: Get at City and they will crack
PALS AT WAR ... Emmanuel Adebayor is ready to face his old team-mate Yaya Toure

EMMANUEL ADEBAYOR has told his Tottenham team-mates how to beat his old Manchester City pals on Sunday.

The Togo striker reckons the more pressure you put on Roberto Mancini’s players the more they start to crack... at each other!

Spurs host City in a clash that will have huge implications on the race for a top-four slot.

And as he plots the visitors’ downfall this weekend Adebayor, 29, has revealed the in-fighting that sparks in their dressing room.

Adebayor was a £25million City player for three years before sealing his permanent £5m switch to White Hart Lane this season.

He said: “If we put them under pressure then we have a chance to win, for sure.

“I was there and I can tell you whenever things are not going their way there will definitely be a fight or an argument on the pitch and that is how we can take them down.”

Mark Hughes signed Adebayor from Arsenal in July 2009.

But things turned sour for the striker when Sparky was sacked five months later and replaced by Mancini, who soon made it clear the frontman was not part of his plans. Adebayor insists he has nothing to prove to Mancini — or City.

He added: “Things happened at Man City but I’ve moved on. For me now Mancini is just a manager I respect like Arsene Wenger, like Harry Redknapp and that’s it. Everything stops there.

“I don’t have anything to prove to City, they are a sacred club. I have a huge respect for the players because some there I call family — Yaya and Kolo Toure, Vincent Kompany, they are very good friends.

“But do I have any pressure that says I have to beat Man City because of the way they treated me, because they bought me expensively and sold me for cheap? No.”

Spurs looked nailed on for a top-four finish. But after a run of poor results — that also saw them knocked out of the Europa League by Basel last week — they could be sixth by the time they face second-placed City on Sunday.

Adebayor said: “I think from the beginning of the season our target was to finish in the top four.

“Now we are out of the Europa League, we just have to focus on the league.

“We have six games to go. That’s what we tell ourselves in the dressing room — that we have six finals.”