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Redknapp confirms Adebayor talks

ESPNsoccernet staff
August 17, 2011
Emmanuel Adebayor spent part of last season on loan at Real Madrid © Getty Images
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Tottenham are in talks with Manchester City over a move for striker Emmanuel Adebayor, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has confirmed.

Adebayor has been told he has no future at City, after the £38 million arrival of Sergio Aguero, and Tottenham are known to be interested in bringing the former Arsenal striker back to North London.

Redknapp hopes to seal a move for the striker soon, saying: ''The chairman is talking to Man City about the player but where they [the negotiations] are at, I genuinely don't know.''

The Togo international fell out with City boss Roberto Mancini last season and the Italian has made it clear the £25 million striker has no future at the club.

Spurs and City have been in negotiations for some time over a possible deal, with Adebayor's reported £170,000-a-week wage packet proving to be the only real stumbling block.

Adebayor spent the second half of last season on loan at Real Madrid, where he scored twice against Tottenham in the Champions League quarter-final first leg clash between the two teams at the Bernabeu.

During that match Spurs fans chanted abusive songs at the former Arsenal marksman, but the player himself said this summer the songs would not put him off signing for Redknapp's team.

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