Real Madrid left winger and Brazilian international Robinho (24) will not play for Barcelona as of this season, like had been rumoured over the last months (read more here).
English Premier League club Manchester City has yesterday officially announced the transfer of Robinho: "Manchester City have made a dramatic late deadline-day swoop for Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Robinho. The deal to bring the 24-year-old was completed shortly before the midnight cut-off point, and he has signed a four-year contract."
Manchester City is believed to have paid a transfer fee of 42 million euro° for the Brazilian winger.
pep's opinion:
this must be the most overpaid transfer of this summer. although i'm quite sure he'll be very succesful against the english defenders and won't be a bench sitter there.
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42 million euro =
65 million us dollar
33,5 million british poun
PEP with the new board taking Man city cabnet, u can expect a higher inflation in the market that the one happened when Ibramovic bought Chelsea, I believe this new trend in football (specially now with Arab gulf rich groups) hacking football clubs, this game will never be the same.
The best strategy for Fan based clubs like Barcelona is to keep focusing on youth ranks, and to work better on their scouting systems (what happened with the barcelona Scouting staff head recently is not encouraging).
This approach will insure keeping the great teams like barcelona with an edge over the ones that will be more rich, because the new trend of boards (mega capitals investors are known for being inpatient and want fast result, and like to buy big names and accomplished start rather than raising their own players).
FIFA must enhance regulations to protect the rights of clubs to benefit from their youth products.
Now regarding Robinho, though it may seem like a wierd transfer, but knowing the Arab gulf businessmen mentality (and I work with them), they put the target above the cost, if they felt they really need something, they think of how to get it, and not how much it cost.
secondly they plan to make the best impression possible when getting into a new project, and to be warmly welcomed by those who are envolved in that project, and no doubt this transfer will give them that!neither Man city members nor fans will complain after this transfer. Just came to think how that will efferct in Liverpool. If another Arab gulf group bought liverpool and a money fight started to take place, no one can imagine how far transfer prices will go, believe me i know what i am saying:)
For robinho he had two options, either to drag himself back to madrid hooked with disgrace, or move where he will be worshiped and where no doubt he was promised that he will be the corner stone for a huge project...it wasnt that hard to chooose.
Now the question is, will that projuct survive, because one last thing about such kind of groups mentality, they are welling to offer unlimited resources, if it worked they get excited and offer even more, but if in the short/middle term it didnt satisfy thier expectations, they just forget about it,as simple as that.
living in england i enjoy watching the Preimership and man citys new owners could at least make it a bit less predictable than it is now, it just a shame that in order for the balance of football to change these days you need mega rich businessmen to throw money away. i'm not saying robinho not a good player but 33 mil is crazy.
few teams seem to rely on winning things on merit anymore. it wont be long before nearly all clubs are like madrid and that will be a sad day for football. as ramzi said we need to buck the trend still and win things by merit ie youth players and well scouted players not 30 mil every time stars, but if the american, arab and russian businessmen keep seeing football as a business oppotunity then we, the fans no matter where your from, and teams like arsenal, will suffer. we need to keep it about football. it may sound naive but i really hope barca can show that you can be successful without capital driven businessmen who dont care about the club only the revenue it makes. barca is a proper football club and i hope it continues.
forca barca!
"if the american, arab and russian businessmen keep seeing football as a business oppotunity"
I don't think they really see it as a business thing. Abramovich has been losing a lot of money since his time at Chelsea. it's more like ahobby, I guess.
The owners of Liverpool and Man United probably are interested in making money but those aren't really the ones who are throwing most money on the market.
Anyway: if Abramovich finds another toy or the other owners want their money back, those clubs will pay for that, so you really can't see it being good in the long-term.
SJP well thats exactly why barcelona is my favorite, I am not a catalan, not even spanish (or may be for catalans its better to say niether a spanish:) So I cant talk about "my team" in that sense as some fans do. I support the sport side of this club because its really interesting how this team achieved all the glory being a fan based team without even sponsoring their shirts for money...while others stamp brand names on their boxers with a condition that they need to show it to the public every once and while.
What I like about this team is that through our history there were evil attempts to smash its presence, for a reason or another, but the super powers vanished and the team still stand to show that beautifull face! even if with a pain of loosing a poet here or a dream there.
What make this team special is that no business group will be able to buy it, because its not already owned by a currapted guy here or a foolish dump head there, it belong to the ones who love it, and who love never sell.
Sometimes i may hate catalan arogance for refusing some commercial prospects that may increase revenues, but again, that mentality kept the club in its special rank and those are the ones who achieved that for decades, so who am I to say "hey its ok to make some compromises", so I will be humble and respect their conserns that even if some comercial ideas may look safe and will not screw the over all mission, but sometimes it may turn to be the banana that the club slip on to that big mess u witness in the world of football.
And certainly I will not switch my support for this team to some kind of Franco B***ch club who ironicly named as the club of the century, sending a clear message that its not important HOW u won your titles, but that u won it! and let the "fair play" slogan go to hell!
well said ramzi, i'm not a catalan either but i love barca because it really is 'mes que en club'. no other team represents important values while at the same time achieving success in football, and making it all look damn good (most of the time!)
Indeed, Barca's structure is special. And as a soci, it is sort of "my" club. Long may it reign.
I think Robinho is going to have a rough time of it in the Premiership at first. Plays that are fouls in La Liga aren't even looked at in the Premiership. Once he gets over that, he'll be okay.
He's still the all-potential team, though. He's never become the player that everyone thought he would become when he came over from Santos.
Oh, in the "shoulda, woulda" file, I've seen two Newcastle matches and man, Coloccini looked good.
Did anyone really think he would come to Barcelona? No chance...
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