‘My first choice was Tottenham’ – Emmanuel Adebayor wanted Spurs switch before Real Madrid loan & insists he would still consider move

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Emmanuel Adebayor has admitted he would consider signing for Tottenham if they were interested in him.

The Togo international has been on-loan at Real Madrid from Manchester City since January but he says he would be open to a move if Spurs came calling in the summer, despite his Arsenal connections.

When playing against Tottenham, Adebayor experienced chanting from sections of the White Hart Lane crowd about his parents – which the striker later branded as ‘ractist’. Nonetheless, the striker admits that he did not take them seriouslym, but urged fans to deter chanting of this nature.

“I heard about the chants and I felt so bad because before joining Real Madrid, my first choice was Tottenham,” he told the BBC’s Football Focus.

“I would go there and sign for them. Maybe those fans were furious because I was scoring against them. Maybe they were thinking like that because Adebayor was taking them out of the Champions League and ending their dream of getting to the final.”

“When I heard the songs I didn’t take it seriously,” he added. “I didn’t take it in a bad way at all but it was bad because people today have to realise that we are footballers. Today we play for this club and the next day we might end up playing for them.

“Fans have to try to control their emotions, as we do as footballers,” he added. “They have to tell the fans: ‘please, try to control your emotions. We are all human beings’.

“What is the point in going into a stand and singing a song that you know is racist and then going out into the street and saying to me: ‘I’m not racist, come to Tottenham’.

“Football is a game. Don’t get me wrong, there is money and other things in it too, but it’s still only a game.”

Spurs have recently embarked on a campaign to stop anti-Semitic chanting at their games with help from the Kick It Out group as part of a zero tolerance policy against racism at White Hart Lane.