Beyonce-loving striker shows some loyalty a day too late

Emmanuel Adebayor has today told Arsenal’s official website that he owes the club for making him a star and won’t be going anywhere this summer.

However, The Spoiler can’t help but feel the Togolese striker has done things in the wrong order - choosing to declare his love for AC Milan again yesterday on the eve of arguably the biggest game of his Arsenal career and then vowing to stay at the Emirates after it has all gone wrong.

The master of the mixed message said:

“Arsenal put me where I am today. They made me one of the biggest strikers in the world. I have to pay them back.

“How am I going to pay them back? Make them win trophies.

Nine days remain until Mark Hughes starts his spending spree

With the transfer window drawing closer, the tabloids have desperately been searching for names that they haven’t already linked with Manchester City. But rather than rationing themselves to one rumour a day they have thrown all the new names into the mix at once as a special Christmas present to their loyal readers:

Kolo Toure to Manchester City
The Sun have declared Toure as Manchester City’s top £10 million January transfer target based on the fact “he seems to have been made the fall guy for his side’s stuttering season and is now behind William Gallas, Mikael Silvestre and Johan Djourou in the pecking order.” The Spoiler is baffled by this logic considering he has started more league games that Silvestre and Djourou this season and was arguably Arsenal’s best player against Wigan before picking up his latest injury.

The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: The only reason Wenger would let Toure go is if he has decided he is too injury prone and that seems unlikely.

Mark Hughes wants another four players
The Daily Mail claim that Hughes will spend £40 million next month on Marcos Senna, Wayne Bridge and his former Blackburn players Roque Santa Cruz and Craig Bellamy.

The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: Would that be good value for money?

C-Ron after £170k a week after showing dog-like allegiance to club

According to The Daily Mirror, Cristiano Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes is in the process of negotiating the Portuguese an additional £50,000 on his weekly £120,000 pay packet, which would make him the best paid player in the Premiership (Robinho only gets a measly £160,000 a week).

Ronaldo is just 18 months into a contract that is supposed to keep him at Old Trafford until 2012, but Mendes insists the star needs further remuneration as a reward for his “loyalty”. Put differently, Ronaldo should be rewarded for the fact that Manchester Utd strongly resisted the Real Madrid advances, and that Los Blancos are now no longer interested in him. A little convoluted, non?

The new deal - which appears far more like a golden-handcuffed deterrent than a reward - would need to be confirmed by 2010, when the Portuguese man-o’-sex can snake off to another club using the Webster ruling.

So, should Fergie and co reward the tricky winger for actively attempting to leave sticking with the Red Devils, or should they spend the extra £50,000 a week (£2.6m a year!) on someone who might actually show some devotion to his club? Votes and comments below, por favor…

Santa Cruz wants to join Robinho at Manchester City

Back in August it appeared almost certain that after an incredible debut season in England where he scored nineteen league goals, Roque Santa Cruz would leave Blackburn for either Arsenal, Manchester City or Manchester United.

However, ten days before the transfer window slammed shut, the Paraguayan ended all speculation about his future by signing a new four-year deal with Blackburn, announcing that he felt he owed the club for helping him get his career back on track:

“It is important that when the club has done something good for you, that you do something good for the club. I signed a contract because I’m sure it is the right choice.”

All those cynics who said that there was no loyalty left in football were silenced once and for all. Or so it seemed. Imagine The Spoiler’s surprise this morning when Santa Cruz declared: