Adebayor challenges Wenger to live debate!
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ADEBAYOR CHALLENGES WENGER TO LIVE DEBATE
City star says he never asked to leave
ADEBAYOR: Insists he never asked to leave ArsenalEMMANUEL ADEBAYOR has challenged Arsene Wenger to a live TV debate on the REAL reason he left Arsenal.
Gunners boss Wenger sold the big Togo striker to Manchester City last summer for a massive £25million.
Wenger has always maintained Adebayor was sold because the player had asked to leave.
But Adebayor insisted: "It was because Arsene didn't want me anymore. If Arsene has a big heart we can go on a TV show to have a debate and he will never say I told him I wanted to leave the club.
"He'll never say that. He knows it full well. I respect him enormously, and he knows that, but the most annoying thing about the whole story is when people say I wanted to leave for the money.
"If I had really wanted to, I would have left two years ago for the money and gone to Milan or Barcelona."
His sale to City was clothed in tales of dressing room bust-ups and a bitter feud with Gunners' team-mate Nicklas Bendtner.
But in an interview with French TV channel Canal Plus, Adebayor added: "I read that it was me who was the troublemaker in the changing rooms. That's unbelievable.
"If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life."
Adebayor was branded "mindless and malicious" by Gunners striker Robin van Persie after stamping on his head during City's 4-2 triumph earlier this season. He also ran the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of the Arsenal fans after scoring.
The two clubs meet again at the Emirates on April 24 and Adebayor admitted: "It will be 90 minutes of hell. The fans will will boo me, insult me, because, until now, they haven't understood why I left. I'm the bad guy."