Robinho Chooses Manchester City Instead Of Chelsea...

Real Madrid agreed to sell the Brazilian to Manchester City for a fee believed to be around 32.5m pounds. Robinho signed a four-year deal with the blue half of Manchester.

I am in a state of shock. You know I actually feel sorry for all my fellow Chelsea fans. A great manager comes along, brings in a great player like Deco, and plans to bring in another player with quality like Robinho. Then the whole deal falls through due to Real Madrid's refusal to sell Robinho for less than 25M.

Having given it a little thought, I must applaud Mr Kenyon and Mr Abramovic for not giving in when it seemed easier to just pay the overinflated asking price.

Then again, I must say it is fittingly ironic that Chelsea missed out on a player as the result of ridiculously over zealous spending on the part of an ambitious billionaire.

At the speed City are developing, it looks like they are the new Chelsea. I wonder how far City will go this season, but I'm sure I won't be the only one. Liverpool and Arsenal might be looking over their shoulders and finding it hard to challenge for fourth spot this time around!

Ten years ago they were in Division Two, and now they have an exciting young team that is going to get better and better.

Chelsea must be gutted, they mugged us over for Shaun Wright-Phillips and now they've done us again for Robinho.

Chelsea were quite confident of signing him earlier in the day, and now this happens? Man City didn't even declare their interest in him until earlier today, and they end up snatching him from under our noses.

What a day!

We all thought Chelsea would win the league three weeks ago, when it looked like Man Utd would get Berbatov anyway. Despite missing out on Robinho I still feel we'll win the league.

The lack of pace in our squad is quite worrying though.

I'm shocked however, that after all his "I want to play for Big Phil and Chelsea" crap, that he actually signed for the team we're playing in two weeks!

There will probably be a lot of "he is no good anyway" posts, I however think he could potentially be great, the key word with Robinho though is "potentially".

You don't know what you'll get, hopefully for the sake of English football Hughes gets the best out of him.

Funny thing is that after all of this, he could line up against Chelsea in his first game for Man City.

City boss Mark Hughes could not contain his delight at clinching a swoop for the 24-year-old:

"I am absolutely delighted to get the opportunity to work with such an incredible talent like Robinho," Hughes told the club's official website.

I have said that in order to compete with the best teams in the Premier League we have to be in the market for players of this calibre, and Robinho is undoubtedly one of the best players in the world.

I am really looking forward to introducing him to the rest of the squad, and to the City fans at the earliest opportunity. This is a real statement of intent as to the ambitions of Manchester City Football Club."

Robinho going to City confirms without doubt how money would be the only motivating factor to go to Chelsea.

It's an embarassing day for Chelsea Football Club.....

I'm still hoping to wake up tomorrow with the latest headline saying:

Robinho: "I thought I signed for Man United"...