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Robinho to Barcelona

Wednesday, 06. 10. 2009  –  Category: Barcelona, La Liga, Manchester City, Premier League

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Robinho apparently wants to do one to Barcelona

In a move bound to please the faithful at Eastlands, Robinho has suggested that he wouldn’t mind playing for Barcelona:

“So far, there have only been speculations, there is nothing concrete and I haven’t received any offers.

“The only thing I can say is that Barcelona are a great team and everybody would love to play for them.

Nice.

The story might get a little more interesting if City’s purported interest in Samuel Eto’o is true.  While player swaps very rarely come off, if both clubs have interest in players at the buying clubs, then this might create some basis for negotiation.

What makes it slightly dubious is that there doesn’t seem to be any interest from Barca, Robinho seems to be just trying to drum up interest from Barca.

Guardiola has identified a need to add depth to his squad, and Robinho would certainly do that.  He could play across any of Barca’s front three.  What seems a lot more likely is that Barca will spend the bulk of their transfer budget on Franck Ribery, they are also in the market for full backs, centre halves and a defensive midfielder, so spending another £30 million on another forward doesn’t seem entirely sensible.

What is going to be interesting to watch is how Mark Hughes deals with this issue with his star player; whether Robinho will have to suffer any consequences as a result of shopping himself out to Barca.

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