Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says Emmanuel Adebayor will be given as much time as he needs to get over Friday's gun attack in Angola.
Adebayor has flown back to Togo on the insistence of the Prime Minister for three official days of mourning.
He will then technically be free to fly back to England. There have been some rather crude suggestions that City are trying to rush Adebayor back in time to face Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday evening.
Blues officials insist that is not the case and in any case, Mancini wants to establish Adebayor is mentally fit enough to play before he even considers it.
"I am very sorry for him," said Mancini. "I will just wait for him. When he comes back I will speak with him and let him decide when he wants to play. That will be OK with me."
