Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is ready to outbid Manchester
City for Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger opened the door to selling Adebayor
at a fans Q&A last night.
“I don’t want to go into any individual assessment of who we
want to keep and who not, at the moment, and normally Adebayor is
part of our plans for the future,” he said.
“And, if I feel that a player should go, or could go, why not
sell him to one of the other top four?
“It’s unusual but we sold Ashley Cole to Chelsea and we bought
William Gallas, so you can never say I never do it, because I’ve
already done it.”
Wenger also admitted a deal to sell Adebayor for £30m to Milan
almost happened last summer. Instead, he stayed and signed a new,
£80,000-a-week contract.
“I believe he has been disturbed at the start by a little bit of
bad feeling from the fans because he was close to leaving the club,
and it unsettled him a little bit,” he said.
Wenger also hinted the whole story about what happened with
Adebayor a year ago had yet to come out.
“I cannot tell you all the truth about what happened behind the
scenes,” he said.
A source close to Abramovich admitted last night to the
Daily Star: “If Wenger is ready to sell, Roman will go for
him.
“But if Arsenal ask too much, he will not pay it.”
