Ummm What????

Yes, very much so Corey. Both Sevilla and Palermo publically praised us this summer for going after their players through proper channels.

I just don't like the word "Fag" on the uniform. Other than that, yea he is fucking traitor.

Alessio, are you not a Juve supporter?

Real Madrid is culpable. Let's see, you finally break into the first team and then your club decides to use you as a makeweight for their superstar signing? I'd be pissed off too. And maybe Robinho didn't go to City for the money, maybe he went because in the last 24 hours that's the only club that presented an acceptable offer to Madrid and he wanted to to get the hell out.

Madrid and United have increased my disdain for them this summer with their illegal bullshit transfer dealings, which of course they get away with. Calderon+Ferguson are the two biggest hypocrites in the world, even moreso than Blatter.

While I'm sad to see the talent leave, after what's developed this summer, I think this might have been the best possible outcome for Madrid. One of the things that characterized Madrid last season was its team unity, and that was clearly the difference between the La Liga Champs and the 3rd place team. With that team harmony likely to carry over to this season, with relatively few transfers or changes, Robinho was the biggest threat to our locker room - and it sounds like he was likely to be a formidable one. Chelsea, a team we're much more likely to be in competition with in the future, wouldn't pay the 40 million euros we were asking, Man City was. We got a return on our investment and got rid of a problem player. In this case, that's probably as good as we can get.

John - I don't think we're complaining about the other clubs' behavior in this case. There are very clear differences between CRon to Real, and what ultimately was Robinho to Man City. Both Ronaldo and Robinho stated publicly that they wanted to leave, Manchester United refused (and I don't wholey disagree with them- if you sign a contract, you can't really complain about having to see it through) whereas in the end, Madrid respected Robinho's wishes. They weren't willing to sell him to Chelsea, because Chelsea wasn't willing to pay the asking fee. When Man City met our asking price, then we said goodbye to Robinho (I think Man United will ultimately regret not taking 100 million Euros for Ronaldo - in my opinion, he's definately not worth that much).

What we're complaining about is a player that still had a lot of potential acting childishly and disrespectfully to our club. In the end, Corey's (hilareous) response was just a funny way of showing that dispite our (Madridistas) disapointment, a player who shows so little respect for a club and such plainly greedy motivation is better off gone. And I thought that a purposely childish message of good riddence (that picture is priceless, c'mon!) was a witty riposte to Robinho's clearly childish behavior.

no doubt corey, its about the money, Wagner Rebeiro is the Brazilian Jerry Maguire and Real Madrid went back on their word several times last year to SHOW ROBINHO THE MONEY!!! I honestly think the money thing could have been worked out, but what happened and it was clear watching ROBINHO's crazy press conference is that he felt disrespected by MADRID management and it became personal. As a man, I completely understand where ROBINHO is coming from. If you give me your word that you are going to renew my contract and you don't, and then over the summer while I'm away and you try to bring in another player of similar caliber and then when the deal doesn't fall through you all of a sudden decide that "hey don't we still have ROBINHO, lets just renew his contract and then get rid of him later". ROBINHO, for all his issues, is intelligent enough to know that he is getting hustled by people who don't really value his contributions to the team, so he basically said "you trying to f*ck me-Calderon, Mijatovic, Raul & Corey(lol), I think I have a better plan = f*ck YOU!!". Only time will tell whether going to the WORLDS RICHEST CLUB in the world MANCHESTER CITY(believe it or not) is a good thing for ROBINHO, I can already guarantee that it is not a good thing for REAL MADRID. I'm going to go on record right here, early in the season and make a prediction - we will finish 3rd in LA LIGA and lose in the same knock out stage as last years CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. THANKS ROBINHO FOR 2 LA LIGA TITLES!!! HALA MADRID!!! NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT DE LA RED & the DUTCH OVEN CONTINGENT!!!

alright i don't get this, Real's main transfer policy is to offer players of other clubs large amounts of money if they agree to play for Madrid, even if the club that owns the player does not want to sell. So now that it happens the other way its unacceptable. didn't Madrid go all out to unsettle C. Ronaldo with offers of a multi million dollar paycheck, even wen Man U were saying they would not sell him. If a rich club offers Robinho a large paycheck if he signs for them. then by Madrid's own operating standards, neither the player nor the club that he signed for are wrong.

yeah, this really is getting rather ridiculous. The EPL is going to the dogs. If these owners do pull out (and most of them seem fickle-minded enough to do so, case in point Thaksin), these clubs' finances will implode. Looking forward to it...

For all concerned, I dont care if you attack me personally, otherwise I wouldnt be in this business. But if you can dish it out you better be able to take it also.

The Robinho matter, which still is fresh in my head, is one of the things that J has spoken about so well in many of his posts on the modern game. Robinho wanted more money from Madrid, then didnt want to be included in a swap deal, then he wanted more money, then he wanted to move to a big team in the EPL after his agent raised hell in the press. What did he get? A big paycheck at a mid-table team, regardless of the new ownership. He clearly went for the money, its as simple as that. Why would a player who could have transfered to Chelsea all of the sudden sign for Man City?

This kind of transfer market activity, which is fairly EPL-centric, is ruining the modern game. Ernest Bouwes, a Dutch contributor to ESPNsoccernet.com wrote a great article on this very issue on the site, check it out. If teams with wealthy owners (24 hours into their regime, right?) are the future of this game, I dont want to be a part of it. Ill just keep supporting the constantly underwhelming Buffalo Bills in the communist-like nature of the NFL.

I'm not mad because Robinho left, I'm mad at Calderon and Pedja, for all the incompetence they've shown during this transfer period. The last minute offers for Villa only show the lack of comunication and planning at the top of the club, and that's all Calderon's and Pedja's fault, and just shows how imcompetent they are.

I also think it was time that we got a taste of our own medicine: that whole "strategy" to get big time players to come to Madrid (Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham) was developed by Florentino and his team, and is the same that Robinho used (ask for a transfer publicly, threaten not to play, etc, etc).

Take care everybody, and Jay, don't be mad at Corey, he's obviously very upset by this fiasco, but he'll come around....

HALA MADRID

yah!!!we got rid of the pesetero.nd jay,mate v ain't got no love lost for robinho.the club is bigger than any player.robinho would have got that fat ass contract if he had behaved well.he was offered 5.5 mil€. if he wants to xchangeone of the biggest clubs in the world for midtable mediocrity for $500,000 more he is welcome to whore himself out.so don't stop by , jay.we r not robinho-istas here.we r madridistas.nd personally i would have liked him more at chelsea just to have a distinct possibility of heaping abuse on him if chelski ever came to the bernabeu.pity,that ain't gonna happen.but corey,mate,do a better job on d photoshop next time mate.d black lines r a bit 2 much.nd u fulfilled my wish by not wishing the gigolo best of luck.
p.s. d grammatical mistakes are completely intentional.

The vaunted 10 should go to sneidjer when he returns...other than that, good riddance. And we didn't give him to anybody we'll EVER see in the champions league. Man city is like the LA Clippers, have fun watching the lads across town win those honors (a trophy? Hahaha! Player of the year? Even more hilariousness!). By the winter transfer window, I'm guessing that money will be going towards a new striker.

Bye bye u thumb sucking, money gready ass. Man City will never win the premiership or any title for that matter even the Carling cup. Money cant buy u trophies! As long as Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and lets throw in Tottenham as well continue to dominate. Coz for every superstar Man City plans on buying those clubs already have the players and more importantly the money to strengthen their squads as well. Just shows that all Robinho wanted was money and not what he always said he wanted which was winning trophies and becoming the best player in the world. Which will never happen at Man City. Enough about that fool. Anyone think that the number 10 shirt will be vacated or given to another player? Im hoping De La Red will be given that number.

I think Robinho hav no chioce but just go. After what he has said, he can't be here no more, it's finished.

and moving to city is not that bad, considering they hav a new owner, a rich one(and ofcourse richer than Roman Abramovic). No doubt with their spending power they will be a European top club soon.

and it's also a good move for real, too. I see no way Robinho could stay with us.
Also he will destroy harmony in the club. Selling him is good choice, and sell him to city is better than chelski. We've got more money, and we shows that nobody is bigger than the club. and we demonstrate that Chelski can't do this to us, force us to sell Robinho to them is Silly.

Calderon and Pedja hav done quite well, not only this but also what they've done in past 2 year.
but i don't thing they'd lead a club like madrid.

my last post...

i dont mean to attack you personally, corey. i just got irritated by your sentiments on one of my favorite players (yes, his attitude could be better, but hes one exciting player to watch.) this was the first time i ever posted on this blog and i only read this blog sparingly because i wanted to follow robinho a little bit. but now that he's gone and now that i've discovered that you like to make a big fuss about typos when you need to worry about your own grammar (like knowing the differences between their/they're/there), i wont be stopping by anymore.

in the future, just try to think about this kind of situation from the player's perspective. he's a 24 year old KID, felt that he fell out of favor with the coach, felt alienated by the front office, and was offered a shit-ton of money to take his grief elsewhere and start fresh. don't act like REAL has never siphoned a player by putting a load of money on the table. just try to be a little more reasonable next and post with a little more maturity...

and before the spelling/grammar police arrest me, i shouldve typed "would phonetically MAKE sense"... or perhaps "would make sense phonetically" if the former is not your cup of tea...

it's good to know you got your panties in a tangle over a clear typo. it wouldve been one thing if i spelled it "sarrcasm" or "sarkasm" or something that would phonetically made sense. (wow, youve made me de-evolve just for the fact that i had to explain that.)

anyhow, i guess you didnt hear about the new ownership in town at man city and the fact that the abu dhabi group has enough money to buy roman abramovich ten times over. i would think twice on whether the best man city can do is a carling cup title in the coming years...

Corey - I understand completely what you are saying and equally what others with regards to the "business side" of the modern game. While that is true, it equally doesn't make it any better and aspects of the sport disappear from generations of players. In the end we all lose because the heritage of the sport gets robbed and once its gone, future generations never know what they miss. For some, that's already happened.

I agree with Gaston. All have their faults in this.
-Real Madrid were wrong to use him as 'trade bait' for CRon or sit for too long on a contract extension before his ego got too big such that he was asking all sorts of ridiculous amounts.
-His agent is clearly a greedy bastard interested only to squeeze every penny possible out of the situation
-Robinho himself was acting like prima donna: asking for a fat ass contract, expecting star treatment ('I wanna be the best in the world but I can't be that here')

Robinho and RM lost out on this one: Madrid will now have to rely on Arjen 'The Glass Man' Robben as its lead winger and Robinho will lead his team to glory! The Carling Cup! Wohoo! (good one corey)

how can someone give up madrid for for man city, MAN CITY for gods sake.... what has the world cup to

welcome to the business side of football

all parties are at fault

real madrid is to blame for alienating him, robinho's agent is to blame for making such big demands, robinho is to blame for acting childish and unproffesional

Bring him to Barca

That much hate means there was some man-love between you and him at some time ... :D

6 year olds usually cant spell sarcasm right, much less spot it when someone is using it, so point well taken. If I was Robinho, I would play for Real Madrid my whole career as he has a chance to win titles with them. Manchester City will provide him the platform to win the...Carling Cup maybe?

And he would have gotten close to that money, if not more, if he had not thrown tantrums and created huge scenes with his agent all summer. Real were preparing a large offer for him, but it never got to the table due to his whining. Man City got a player who only showed his promise in flashes, but more often then not showed that he is exactly what his goal celebration denotes, a baby.

corey, grow up. this is the business side of football and you act like it is so shocking that someone would say yes to that kind of money. would you not do the same thing in robinho's shoes with that kind of money on the table? and what kind of photoshopping is that?? are you six years old?!? boy you really proved a point and struck so deep that robinho is regretting his decision already (sarasm).