Manchester City Star Robinho Wants £33m Barcelona Move: “I Would Like to Play for Barca”
by Mr Neutral on October 15th, 2009 420 words | 18 commentsLet the speculation begin.
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Manchester City forward Robinho has heard nothing official regarding Barcelona’s latest reported interest in him but would relish the chance to play for the European champions.
Robinho was closely linked with Barca this summer and, although no move was forthcoming then, there has been continued speculation that the Catalan giants will try to take the former Real Madrid man back to La Liga during the January transfer window, possibly on loan.
“Of course I would like to play for Barca, who wouldn’t? We could have so much fun. It would be a pleasure to play next to (Lionel) Messi, to my compatriot (Dani) Alves, Xavi, (Andres) Iniesta, (Zlatan) Ibrahimovic… with all of them. They are a great team,” Robinho was quoted as saying by El Mundo Deportivo.
The Brazil international, who is currently recovering from an ankle injury, only joined City just over a year ago from Madrid for a British record transfer fee of £32.5million but the 25-year-old made no secret of his admiration for Barca or his desire to play for Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering side.
He continued: “I’ve played against them and I know their quality. But at the moment at the moment I can only do it (play with them) on the PlayStation. It’s an honour that a coach like him (Guardiola) speaks highly of Robinho, and rates me as much as I read he does.” (Press Association)
OK well what can you add to that? Robinho is being startling honest in these quotes and I guess it is down to Pepe Guardiola to make the next move and the question is, will he make it? Barcelona are managing just fine as they are in the attacking area of the field. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has smoothly slotted in and is scoring goals for fun (when isn’t scoring goals fun?).
The issue of the Man City man being a former Real Madrid man is not going to be a problem in the same way as Samuel Eto’o bridged that gap so can the Brazilian so again it only comes down to whether the Catalan side actually put in a serious bid.
In many ways Mark Hughes may think he can afford to let Robinho leave, after all he too has an embarrassment of riches up front and selling one of his many strikers may be a blessing in disguise and help prevent any potential disharmony caused by a star player sitting on the bench all season.
Watch this space.
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anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
MERCENARY!!
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
he has also come out on many occassion saying he is happy playing at city and wants to continue to do so
so anybody who reads too much into these quotes is very naive
he is brazilian, they talk a lot, and when a journo asks Robi a question he will answer them the same way he treats his life, like a little kid who just wants to be happy and play football
so i am not too worried about this. happy that he is still lighting up my club, cracking player to watch when he is on song.
if barca come up with 35million in january (highly doubtful) then its up to the club to decide whether to accept it
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Good for Robinho, he’s to good a player to be at an average side like City, should be at big team like Barca.
Spunking loads of cash does not create Class or History.
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
why do morons keep posting this nonsense about class and history ??
not that it makes any difference anyway
but city have a fantastic history
and the owners have conducted themselves with the utmost class an dignity in the face of purile bullsh1t in the media since they arrived
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
city sucks barca rocks
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
city have a fantastic history of being loosers
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
brilliant
RaNE - October 15th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
im surprized he knew who manchester city was to start of with
anonymous - October 15th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
RaNE, i bet he still doesn’t know who Northern Ireland are. Then again City are older than Northern Ireland aren’t they!
RaNE - October 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
yes, not sure how that is an insult though? seeing we are 31st in the world rankings above eygpt, nigiria and sweden who are all pretty good teams
anonymous - October 16th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Rane: Are Northern Ireland going to the World Cup?
Didn’t think so.
anonymous - October 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Calvo…
Unfortunately that wil always be the case for foreign players especially latin ones.
Even those that are at the “big 4″.
anonymous - October 16th, 2009 at 11:34 am
hello sir , if you can tell me your phone number i will call you on my line my own line is 08030800902
RaNE - October 16th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
haha ano… 9:18
i couldnt really care if we arnt going to the world cup we havent qualified in a long time either same with the euro championships but it doesnt really matter to me its all about supporting your country even i we dont qualify for 20 years or so
anonymous - October 16th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
all the worlds top players want to be part of either Barca or Real
...samlfc.... - October 16th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Robinho is more than likely the star of Man city in the same way Torres and Gerrard is to Liverpool, lampard and chelsea and Fabregas to Arsenal so Man city can’t afford to lose Robinho as he is their star player and he is one of the best players in the world in my opinion
But it seems that Barcelona are linked to everyone so Man city fans i wont worry about it.
Retryboy - October 16th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
The thing about having mega rich owners as we have seen at chelsea under mourinho is you can actually make players honour their contracts rather than being forced into anything. He has going for him in the fight for places that he would probably compliment any of the other strikers styles of play.
anonymous - October 16th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Welcome Home Robinho, wealcome to the Camp Nou