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Roberto Mancini is taking his time before deciding whether to let Emmanuel Adebayor leave Manchester City this month.

Adebayor, 26, looked set to move on during the winter transfer window with the summer signing of Mario Balotelli having restricted the Togolese striker to just two Premier League starts this season.

Adebayor’s frustration surfaced earlier this month as the ex-Arsenal man was involved in a training-ground bust-up with team-mate Kolo Toure and Mancini has boosted his squad with the signing of Edin Dzeko.

But Balotelli is now sidelined with a knee injury and is set to be out for up to a month.

Mancini therefore wants to wait until near the end of the transfer window before deciding whether to let Adebayor leave – either on loan or in a permanent deal after Real Madrid were linked with a bid.

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has rubbished talk that he is interested in Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor.

Speculation has increased in recent weeks suggesting Spurs were keen to snap-up the former Arsenal striker, who is unsettled at Eastlands.

And reports over the weekend claimed that Man City could try and use Adebayor as bait in a £60million-plus move for Spurs’ man of the moment Gareth Bale.

“Absolute nonsense,” Redknapp told TalkSport.

“I’ve never made any enquiries for Adebayor whatsoever. I keep seeing in the papers that we’re after him. I’ve never ever asked about him or enquired about him.”

Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor (born 26 February 1984) is a Togolese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester City in the Premier League. He played in the same position for the Togo national team before he announced his retirement from international football on 12 April 2010. Adebayor previously played for Metz, AS Monaco and Arsenal, and was voted African Footballer of the Year for 2008.In January 2010, Adebayor was one of the players involved when the Togo national team’s bus came under a gunfire attack on the way to the African Cup of Nations in Angola.

Full name: Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor
Date of birth: 26 February 1984
Place of birth: Lomé, Togo
Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position: Striker
Club career: Sporting CL / Metz B / Metz / Monaco / Arsenal / Manchester City

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