Either way, how can it be that the striker jostling with your defenders is on the same wage bill?
What actually have here is a player who received a pay-off to leave City, then agreed to receive that money in instalments over the two years that remained of his original contract.
Sources at City insist Adebayor's original salary was not as high as £170,000 a week. They say it was more like £140,000 a week.
When Adebayor's move to White Hart Lane was made permanent in August 2012, Sportsmail understands Tottenham agreed to pay him £101,000 a week.
Not wishing to take such a big pay cut, Adebayor's advisers then negotiated a pay-off with City. It is understood that is in the region of £4m paid in instalments over the two years — or approximately £40,000 a week.
As well as being something of a legend in his native Togo — there is a foundation in his name — Adebayor is described as an astute business man. At one stage, it has been suggested, he had a business that provided the guards for Togo's prisons.
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