Barry Conlons wig said:CheesySmoker said:Everyone on this forum who is quick to jump on the i hate Robinho bandwagon and slag him off (i'd say about 80%) saying things like; he is a waste of money, mercenary etc need to stop down and think about what he has brought to the club apart from his brilliant footballing skills
Fair enough his performances of late have not been up to his own standards but he has done a lot more than that although you may not realise it
IMHO without Robinho we would be much futher behind than where we actually are now. Robinho was just what we needed after the takeover to show our new ambition, when we signed him it put us on the map. clubs are being taken over all the time nowadays and nobody really see anys change after a while, ok our circumstances were already slightly different given the amount of money involved but signing robbi immediatly after the takeover instantly showed we mean business.
He was our top goalscorer last season and lets be honest, it wasnt a brilliant season so without him we might not have even finished in the top half, not very terrific prospects for the newly crowned richest club in the world. Hughes january signings were all good and definately helped but you cant really say that any one of them was taking us to that next level of superstardom, which is partly what we are looking for.
When summer came and people like Barry, Adebayor, Toure and Lescott joined the club they were all saying how we were going places and im pretty sure all of them mentioned the purchase of Robinho as an example. I may just be being Naive in thinking they came for more than just a fat pay packet but, no disrespect to any other signings made in the first season from the takeover, can you really imagine one of our summer signings saying that the signing of relative unknown people like NDJ were really showing our ambitions of becoming a title winning side?
I think the purchase of Robinho has sped this clubs transformation up by at least a whole season. and btw, he is clearly suffering from low confidence GIVE HIM TIME!
go easy on me boys and girls, im ill!
we know your ill, ill in the fucking head, hes a lazy twat... i dont think one person on here doubt his ability, putting it to good use can only be done by the man himself, and hes faltered at every hurdle.
Simplesssss
Spot on. What are you thanking him for?! 140k a week for doung fuck all. Im not saying he's shit, he's clearly world class if he puts the effort in, but instead he hardly turns up every game and seems to be laughing at us. He's a lazy bastard and il be glad to see the back of him. We need the old "If you dont want to play for us, fuck off" attitude