ono said:
The fact that people on here are referring to the Brazilian League as a joke pretty much sums up the intelligence of a few on here.
The 10-0 game was a cup match against a team in the 4th division of Brazilian football. Currently Santos are playing in the Sao Paulo State Championship which lasts for half a season, and it's a mixed bag in terms of ability. Then they play in the Brazilian Championship which is a strong league. Slower than England but technically very, very good.
The structure is very different to what it is in England. It doesn't make it 'Sunday League.' It's just different. The ignorance shown towards any league which isn't shown on Sky Sports is quite astounding on here at times.
As for Robinho, hopefully he'll get fit, have a cracking World Cup and come back a happy man. Either that or we get a good fee. He needed to play and the World Cup is of massive importance in Brazil. Unfortunately for him there are several Brazilian forwards who are on form and a few more who are close to re-capturing what they once had, so the fact he wasn't playing much at City was likely to prevent him from being on the plane. In an ideal world he would have stayed and won his place back, but he obviously didn't feel that was going to happen so he opted to move. The abuse he gets is sickening to be honest.
As a few have already mentioned, that is a
cracking post.
I had not bothered to get into the Robinho debate thus far as I found myself becoming too annoyed to post a coherent argument on him, as some of the abuse he gets is disgraceful and not fitting of City fans.
I have absolutely no issues whatsoever with the handful of posters who have posted negative thoughts about him
BUT managed to write sensibly about aspects of his game or his attitude. What I DO baulk at is the never-ending vitriol and incomprehensible slating of him from a rather large minority of idiots who clearly derive pleasure from slagging off our players. Some of the language used against him has been shocking and indefensible. Yes, we have our share of illiterate fools and we can stomach one or two of them sledging him because they are jealous and bitter non-achievers, but where do the rest of you derive this unwarranted hatred of him?
If we do end up selling him, fair enough. Let's just accept that it wasn't meant to be, but please don't hurl the abuse at him like you are doing at the moment. If it happens that way, why can't we just accept that 'it didn't work out?' He may well come back from the World Cup to find us in the Champions League and he may well come back and play to his full potential - how many of you can say with hand on heart that he is not an excellent player, who could contribute greatly to our success over the next few years if he is allowed to!
I believe that, with better players around him (as a consequence of getting 4th), he will flourish and captivate as only he can. The whinging and damning statements about his poor form this season really don't hold water, when you examine the injuries and actual number of occasions he
DID play. The boy is a confidence player and not every player responds to the same things. What drives Bellamy on and motivates him, does not necessarily have to correspond with what gives Robinho that lift. Some players need an arm around the shoulder and Robbie strikes me as being in this group.
If you are going to criticise, do it fairly and constructively. Claims like 'he's shit' or 'he's a b*****d' or 'he can't hack it' or 'lazy, shite footballer' 'let him rot in the reserves till the end of his contract' etc etc don't stand up to close examination and crap like that should be left to the 'Norwich' fans over in Trafford/London.
Instead of ranting and raving, let's have some sensible debate if you don't agree. Convince the others who think like me that we are wrong by having some substance to your point of view; don't just think that it suffices to say 'he's not good enough' simply because he is not sweating blood and tears for us every time he goes out onto the pitch!
