Comments on: Why City shouldn’t be in a hurry to loan out Robinho

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:19:05 +0000

Against Scunthorpe, by my count he had 9 goal attempts, 8 of which were on target, and one of which was a cracking finish to a sublime move. Compare that to Benjani!

Not bad for someone who cannot yet be “fully match fit”. Perhaps only a little fine tuning is now needed.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:12:59 +0000

He doesn’t seem interested, because he gets slashed by the media and the City fans. It is as people forgot he scored 14 goals last season ending 3rd or 4th on the list and effectively being the top scorer for City. He also made a great duo and was responsible for improving Ireland by linking so well with him.

This season, people slash him, because he’s been unfit, lost his confidence and Bellamy has been playing exceedingly well.

He is interested and he does care. After all, when Everton got awarded a penalty kick, HE WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE! Also, at Everton, as the column says, everybody was playing crap. Did anyone else see how Bellamy got humiliated by Fellaini? Oh wait, I guess nobody did, even when Shearer made public fun of him by replaying the segment 20 times. No, people were too busy throwing sticks at Robinho for not being interested.

Get real people! He’s a star of a player, but you’d have to show you want him. Look at his goal at Scunthorpe. Not only was it a goal away from home, it was also in this cold weather, something you didn’t see from him last season. Did you also hear the “We’ve got Robinho” chants as soon as he scored? Did you see him run practically into the crowd? Did you see the relief on his face when he finally did score his first goal?

I bet, if you let him play against Man Utd, he’ll be doing is utmost to work for the team, knowing how important this is for City. He might not be your best player on the pitch, but with Adebayor’s fitness unknown and his head being afflicted by the tragedy and the FACT that Adebayor was NOT playing well at all before he went away and that Benjani is simply not a danger to Utd, you have no other player to place in that position.
A simple 4-4-2 set-up would do. You can play both Bellamy and Petrov and both Robinho and Tevez. You’ll have 2 central midfielders, Ireland, de Jong, Barry, Zabaleta, enough choice and you have your back four.

People just need to get off his back and instead get behind him. I can’t believe the City fans (some of them anyway) are joining the stickthrowing shown by the newspapers. The same newspapers that make fun of City when they get humiliated, read FA Cup last year.

By: gaz

gaz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:32:22 +0000

At last a decent artical concerning our Robbi, KEEP HIM!!!
we are in a semi final 2nd leg with the rags and a good chance to progress to the next round of the F.A cup 3-1 or 4-1 odds i guess? also pushing for the champions league place, i agree with albatross like kinky was worth a season ticket alone!
it is of no benifit to us to loan him out, why dont we try a loan swap deal for Aguero (that might be good buisness?) a fit Robhino is a match winner at any level…

By: albatross

albatross — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:54:40 +0000

I would add that, for me, watching Robinho play football is a privilege and worth the price of my season ticket alone: his sense of space, anticipation and skill levels are all characteristics of the few sides above us now and what our promising academy graduates need to work towards. Whilst I can’t see him staying now (there are undoubtedly issues around his mental strength), I am sure we would see a steadily improving Robi as the WC approaches and the weather warms up if he did stay.

By: BlueBarNone

BlueBarNone — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:54:07 +0000

100% spot on. Top article. Robbie will come good as soon as the transfer window has closed, his form returns and the weather starts to improve.

He will have no option if he wants to get in the Brazil squad for the World Cup. And if he has a good run in and World Cup we can assess the situation in the summer when we’d get a good return if we sell. Otherwise we have a world class player happy at the club. Win win.

By: Blue Blue Blue

Blue Blue Blue — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:45:10 +0000

He’s suffering from everyone’s level of expectation. Judge him by his own high standards and he’s no where near at the moment. It’s not an issue of his ability, more that he doesn’t look that interested. You can forgive a lot of a player that puts in 100% even if they achieve little for their efforts. We’d be mad to let him go, you don’t get in the Brazil squad by being cack. Come on blues get behind him!