Samba star admits his dissatisfaction to friends and journalists

Barcelona-based newspaper Sport today reveal Robinho’s unhappiness at Manchester City.

During his recent trip to Brazil, it is claimed that the player admitted to friends and journalists in confidence that he is deeply dissatisfied with the time he is currently having with the Premier League and the Brazil squad. (Presumably, he now realises that football journalists aren’t the best people to privately confide in.)

Apparently, Robinho has not found a favourable environment in which his skills and dribbling talent can thrive. Aditionally, he is said to be concerned by the competition from Carlos Tevez and Emmanuel Adebayor at City, and his fight to win a place in the national squad is being hampered by strong criticisms from certain sectors fo the Brazilian press.

Naturally, Sport bring up the possibility of a January transfer window departure: 

“The player is determined to take his career in a new direction, which does not necessarily mean having to leave Manchester. However, depending on how things evolve over the coming months and offers to take over the table, no one doubts that a move during the winter could happen. He did at Santos and Real Madrid.”

In the true spirit of Spanish journalism, there are no quotes in this story, nor anything that really suggests any foundation in truth. We suspect it is simply a case of a Barcelona-based newspaper printing what they think Barcelona fans would like to read, but this will do nothing to silence the whispers of Robinho’s imminent departure to La Liga.