Adebayor’s Mouth is Open Again; Manchester City Game Thread

By: Martin | September 12th, 2009

Adebayor decided to remind us all of why we sold him today ahead of the game by saying that any fans who booed him during his tenure with Arsenal are “not real fans” and “tomorrow they will support Liverpool.” He just doesn’t get it, does he? The relationship between supporters and players is just that–a relationship. If the player respects the clubs and treats the fans well, he will be treated well in return. If he’s constantly looking to go somewhere else and insulting the fans by giving far less than his best in important matches he won’t be treated well. As Paul McCartney said–”in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” Showing your displeasure at a player who obviously has no love or respect for the club doesn’t make you not a true fan–far from it.

He also pops off at his old partner/nemesis St. Nick, saying that Bendtner “had it easy” and wasn’t willing to work hard to make himself a better player, and will never be a good player because of his attitude. Considering that Nicklas scored one fewer goal than Ade last year, this would also seem to be an implicit admission that he himself is not very good. Most humorously, he claims of his and Bendtner’s bust-up during the Tottenham game last season, “Nicklas showed me the finger. I am sorry, you cannot show your partner the finger.” Heh.

Anyway, onto the actual game. Lineups are in:

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Gallas, Vermaelen, Clichy, Song, Denilson, Fabregas, Diaby, Bendtner, and van Persie.

Manchester City: Given, Richards, Toure, Lescott, Bridge, Wright-Phillips, de Jong, Barry, Ireland, Bellamy and Adebayor.

Bit of a surprise to see Diaby in there ahead of Eduardo–we basically have four center midfielders in there, so we’ll see who plays out “wide”–my guess would be Denilson on the right and Diaby on the left.

As always, feel free to leave your comments and thoughts on the game in the section below.

Come on Arsenal.