Man City Sign Robinho!!

[Rocker]

Manchester City have beaten Chelsea to the signing of Brazilian forward Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record transfer fee of about £32.5m.
Chelsea have been chasing the 24-year-old but City have captured him on a four-year deal with a late bid.
"I am absolutely delighted to get the opportunity to work with such an incredible talent like Robinho," City boss Mark Hughes told the club website.
"This is a real statement of intent as to the ambitions of Manchester City."
City made the audacious attempt to sign Robinho on transfer deadline day after earlier agreeing to a takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group.
Hughes added: "I have said that in order to compete with the best teams in the Premier League we have to be in the market for players of this calibre, and Robinho is undoubtedly one of the best players in the world.


"I am really looking forward to introducing him to the rest of the squad, and to the City fans at the earliest opportunity."
Robinho took the unusual step of calling a news conference on Sunday to again state his desire to leave the Bernabeu club.
He appears to have been unhappy with Real and their willingness to sell him to fund a failed move to sign Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United.
"We have sold Robinho for reasons of a human nature and for sporting reasons," Calderon told Spanish television station Veo.
"The fact that he has accepted an offer from Manchester City says that he is not going for sporting reasons.
"It's an important sum of money. It's not the objective of Real Madrid to sell players, neither do we need the money, but for reasons of human and sporting nature, it has been decided this is for the best.
"It's a decision agreed by all the coaching staff, who understand it is best for the player and for the club.
"(Coach Bernd) Schuster thought until yesterday that he could recover the player, but that has not been the case.
"Every time I have spoken with him he was very sad, crying and asking to leave Spain. Real Madrid are more important than any one player.
"He's a great kid, but badly advised."
Chelsea had been favourites to sign Robinho but Real apparently refused to sanction a switch for him to join them as they were upset at the Stamford Bridge club's conduct in the matter.
Robinho could now make his debut for City in their next league game, which is ironically against Chelsea on 13 September.

Credit: BBC Sport

[Nige]

What a joke! He was desperate to play for Chelsea yesterday

[Admin]

Have to agree 100% with you here Nige, only two days ago and maybe even yesterday, Robinho was stating how he wanted to move to Chelsea and now he has signed for Man City.

Looking foward to seeing if Man City can become as big and the owners aren't just all talk though.

[Nige]

They were saying before they'll be trying to sign Cristiano Ronaldo for £135m!!! That is just hilarious, who do they think they are? It'll take a lot for players who actually want to play to go there. Guys like Fabregas & Torres who they want too aren't going to go to a second rate club for the money. They'll end up signing players who are around 29/30 and are only interested in getting a retirement fund