Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor maintains he was "pushed out" by Arsenal over the summer.
In an interview with French TV, Adebayor said: "I talked with the coach (Arsene Wenger) and he told me I was one of Arsenal's best-paid players, that the club was in the red, so maybe they wouldn't be able to pay me any more - it would be better for me to go. I asked him: 'Is it your choice or the club's?' He answered: 'It's everybody's choice, from the whole club'. I was pushed out!"
Denying the claims from Arsenal fans that only greed drove him to move to City, the African said: "Everybody says Adebayor went for the money.
"I think a lot of people are wrong because Arsenal bought me for five or six million and they sold me three-and-a-half years later for £25million. So people should know that it's not me who wanted to leave for money, it's Arsenal that forced me to go."
He added: "My relationship with Arsenal has broken in two. I wanted to stay. It's true that I didn't score a lot of goals last season, but I was often injured."
