FILE: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Brazilian striker Robinho ends his unhappy spell at Manchester City and returns to former club Santos

Record ID: 725228

  • Title: FILE: FOOTBALL / SOCCER - Brazilian striker Robinho ends his unhappy spell at Manchester City and returns to former club Santos
  • Date: 29th January 2010
  • Summary: MANCHESTER, UK (FILE 2009) (REUTERS) ROBINHO JUGGLING BALL AT MANCHESTER CITY'S TRAINING SESSION EXTERIORS OF MANCHESTER CITY'S EASTLANDS STADIUM
  • Embargoed: 13th February 2010 12:00
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  • Story Text: Manchester City's Brazil forward Robinho is returning home to his former club Santos on a six-month loan deal, the Premier League club said on Thursday (January 28).
    Robinho joined the big-spending club in 2008 for a British record transfer fee of 32.5 million pounds ($52.87 million) from Real Madrid but has struggled to hold down a first team place.
    "Santos will assume all of the player's contract terms, including wages and bonuses. Robinho will travel to Brazil on Sunday to begin his loan period," City said in a statement.
    City manager Roberto Mancini on the club website (www.mcfc.co.uk): "Robinho is someone who needs to be playing regularly and we wish him well for the period of his loan."
    The player, who left Santos for Real Madrid in 2005, won the Confederations Cup with Brazil last year but had feared a lack of first team action could jeopardise his World Cup hopes.
    Robinho struggled to make an impression at City under former manager Mark Hughes but Italian Mancini, who joined the club in December, had said he was keen for him to stay.
    Robinho is expected to earn substantially lower wages at the Brazilian club.
    "If everything works out well, Robinho could be a really cheap signing for Santos because we have a lot of partners interested in financially supporting Robinho's return to Santos," Santos press officer Arnaldo Hase said this week.
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