Yeah what bothered me @ City was why he never fell out of favor. I thought he had a positive first year with you. Obviously some growing pains, which is common with all leagues but he played well.
Then it seemed your management was hell bent on signing players to keep him out of the lineup? Just seems dumb. Could have built around him and signed players to compliment him. Now he's gone, who will be next? Same thing happened with stephen ireland IMO. It's no way to build a team. You got to let players gel and add onto a good core, not just constantly go for big spending.
This is just a personal problem i have, that i see alll over world football. Money driving people mad
Basically what happened was this....
He did very well between Aug 08 - Dec 18. He scored 14 goals, which was great. Then he had a rape charge to deal with over an incident which happened (or probably didn't happen, if you get me) in a nightclub in Leeds.
He flew off home to Brazil, without permission and was fined. Can't blame him for doing what he did personally. It's a hard situation to deal with. For the rest of the seaosn he still played well but missed a little bit of luck and confidence went down a little. He still did ok, except for away from home where the whole team were a shambles - we couldn't keep the ball, and Robinho needs to be in a team who keep the ball.
The next season he looks good in the first 4 games, but then he fractures his ankle (iirc). Never really regains fitness, and is loaned out to Santos in order to play. Returns to form at Santos, does ok at the World Cup, but comes back to a City side that have improved and moved on. He'd still play some games, but i think he is better in Milan personally, to see the old Robinho. He'll be a start again.
hernanes
