He's cost City £800,000 a goal and travels worse than cheese in a spacesuit – happy 29th week of fleecing City, Mr Robinho

Manchester City fans idolise Robinho because he is a genuine world class player and he joined their club.

• He is a Brazilian with dazzling skills and a locker full of spectacular goals.
• But next time they chant his name after another woefully inadequate performance  away from Eastlands they should consider a few figures.
• Robinho has been at City for 29 weeks today and his cost to the club so far has  been £9.7 million.
• That is his £160,000-a-week wages plus a portion of his transfer fee based on his length of service and contract (which is how the club’s accountants work  these things out).
• Now the supporters may not care if City are getting value for money because the  club’s owners are among the richest people in the world.
• But his contribution so far works out at more than £800,000 per goal – and only  two of them have come away from home.
• Robinho also hasn’t scored since the end of last year, yet he is still given  the star treatment whenever he does City a favour by turning out for them.
• Is it any wonder he slopes off like a baby when things don’t go right and he is  substituted, like he was at Chelsea on Sunday?
• Manager Mark Hughes doesn’t want anyone to make a big deal of the disrespectful  way Robinho disappeared after getting hooked, nor the time is allowed time off  that no-one else in the squad seems to get.
• Yet with the figures involved the forward should be falling over himself to do  more for the club, not the other way around.