Assou-Ekotto happy to draw £40,000 a week for nothing

As we all know Benoit Assou-Ekotto is for sale and Tottenham made it clear in the summer he could leave on a free transfer.

Assou-Ekotto happy to draw £40,000 a week for nothing

Clearly something happened last summer when he was told by Andre Villas-Boas he would never play for the club again. Benny as we know is not a football fan, he only plays the game because it's something he is good at and the wages are good.

At Tottenham he is on £40,000 a week according to an article in the Mirror who report that Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers refuse to pay those sort of wags. There is nothing new in the article, he is still a Tottenham player, still drawing his wages and has a three game FA ban to serve. Back in 2012 he said he never wanted to play in the Europa League again as the competition was useless.

It has been clear to any fan for a while that Benny is at loggerheads with the club, especially after his tweet with a graphic suggesting as much. He appears to be intent on remaining at Tottenham simply to force us to pay him £40,000 a week while he does whatever he feels like.

The club it seems want nothing to do with him. His last game for the club was May 19th at home to Sunderland in the final game of that seasons Premier League, a game we won 1-0 thanks to a Gareth Bale goal. His contract could be rescinded by mutual consent but that hasn't happened and you have to assume that his agents have told other interested clubs that he isn't going to go anywhere until his contract is finished, that's what it looks like.

Assou-Ekotto spent last season on loan at QPR and was a quality player until January. When he didn't return to Spurs he was, to be blunt, hopeless for the rest of the season.

QPR fans will tell you he was totally disinterested and they couldn't wait to get rid of him. As with many a footballer Asoou-Ekotto only plays when he wants to, when he is motivated enough.

Daniel Levy insisted to Andre Villas-Boas that he reintroduce Emmanuel Adebayor into the first team squad, something AVB was dead against and only reluctantly allowed him to train with them. The club nor Assou-Ekotto have never mentioned what he did but Benny has not trained with the squad since.

The Cameroon international is keeping fit training in France and the recent picture above shows him doing charity work in what looks to be a Lille training kit.