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Emmanuel Adebayor stalled on his Aston Villa transfer because he is still holding out for a switch to West Ham.

The Irons are in turn hopeful that a loan deal can be resurrected this month - despite the poor relationship between the two clubs and the bitter fall-out from the striker’s aborted Deadline Day move back in January.

Although West Ham are in the hunt for Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez they are still pursuing several other options as the Reds have so far been insistent that Hernandez will not be sold.

Mauricio Pochettino has today reiterated that Adebayor, in the final year of his contract, has no future at Tottenham.

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But Adebayor does want to remain in the capital and is hoping Levy would rather stomach a move for him to Upton Park than continue to paying him for another 11 months.

He had been expected to join Villa on loan last month after agreeing terms with Midlands club.

He had travelled to Villa’s Bodymoor Heath training ground and held talks with boss Tim Sherwood, under whom he worked at Spurs.

But while there were no problems with money with Villa able to meet Adebayor’s £100,000-a-week wage demands, the club moved on to other targets after he kept them waiting.

Adebayor’s move to West Ham was blocked by Daniel Levy eight months ago because, while the Spurs chairman was prepared to part-fund the player’s £100,000-a-week wages for other clubs, he did not want to do so for the Irons.

Furious Hammers co-chairman David Gold, who had urged supporters to wait up for the beat-the-deadline deal at the time, subsequently took to Twitter to deliver an icy blast at Levy.

He Tweeted: “No matter how hard you try there are people out there that you just can’t do business with.”

At Tottenham, anger erupted behind the scenes and Adebayor was frozen out from the first team after giving a TV interview confirming his move had been vetoed.

During pre-season he has been training with the Development squad after Pochettino made it clear he would no longer work with the first team.