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.
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He is a Brazilian with dazzling skills and a locker full of spectacular goals.
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But next time they chant his name after another woefully inadequate performance away from Eastlands they should consider a few figures.
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Robinho has been at City for 29 weeks today and his cost to the club so far has been £9.7 million.
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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).
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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.
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But his contribution so far works out at more than £800,000 per goal – and only two of them have come away from home.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Yet with the figures involved the forward should be falling over himself to do more for the club, not the other way around.