Adebayor Joins Crystal Palace

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Adebayor Joins Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace has completed the signing of Emmanuel Adebayor. The 31-year-old Togolese forward was a free agent after Tottenham released him in September, and has now agreed to a deal at Selhurst Park until the end of the current campaign. It is understood that representatives of Adebayor and Palace began negotiations just over a fortnight ago. The player has been undergoing training daily with a personal trainer and passed his medical at the South London club on Tuesday morning. He will be assessed by the Palace backroom staff on Wednesday. They will establish his fitness to feature in the Eagles’ FA Cup fourth-round tie at home to Stoke on Saturday. Adebayor has been handed the Number 25 shirt by Palace. “I will have a good chat with the manager to see where my fitness level is at,” Adebayor said in an interview with the club’s official website. “I have been working out every day and played a lot of games in Africa. It is not the same level, but the way I played it I played as if I was playing in the Premier League. Maybe Saturday, maybe Tuesday night, maybe next weekend, we will all know where I am.” The striker added: “Is it going to be hard? I don’t think so. I just have to get out there, play my football and enjoy myself again.” Adebayor was close to joining Aston Villa in the summer, but turned down the chance to play under former Tottenham head coach Tim Sherwood, and then a deadline-day move to West Ham also broke down. He was not named in either Tottenham’s Premier League or Europa League squads and, with just a year left on his contract,  he was released by mutual consent.

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