BARCA pounds 64M ROBIN RAID; Football Spy: EVERY SINGLE DAY THE BIGGEST MOVES... LATEST NEWS... THE ORIGINAL GOSSIP COLUMN..Byline: JOHN CROSS BRAZILIAN superstar Robinho wants to join Barcelona in January - but only on a permanent deal. The Spanish giants are sending a delegation to Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi (ä`b  thä`bē, zä–, dä–), Arab. Abu Zabi, sheikhdom (1995 pop. 928,360), c. this week
to try to thrash out thrash v. thrashed, thrash·ing, thrash·es v.tr. 1. To beat with or as if with a flail, especially as a punishment. See Synonyms at beat. 2. a pounds 34million transfer. And the Champions League holders are prepared to offer him a six-year contract, worth pounds 30m. Barca have even offered to take Robinho on a six-month or 18-month loan with a view to a permanent switch after he admitted publicly last month that he wants to quit Eastlands. But unsettled Robinho has told his advisers and Barcelona that it has to be a permanent deal in January while City are insisting that the final decision lies with manager Mark Hughes This article is about the Welsh footballer. For other people with the same name, see Mark Hughes (disambiguation). Leslie Mark Hughes OBE (born November 1, 1963 in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales), nicknamed Sparky . After five successive draws, Hughes is anxious to get back to winning ways so may be reluctant to let Robinho go right now. City are flying to Abu Dhabi to play a high-profile exhibition match in front of Sheikh sheikh or shaykh Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. Mansour and the super-rich club owner is under no pressure to sell, so Barca will have to do a lot of wheeling and dealing wheeling and dealing Noun shrewd and sometimes unscrupulous moves made in order to advance one's own interests wheeler-dealer n to land Robinho. Meanwhile, City are monitoring Rio Ave's Portugal Under-21 defender Fabio Faria, who is also being watched by Benfica. Faria, 20, is rated in the pounds 4m class by his club. CAPTION(S): COME AND GET ME Robinho wants to join Barcelona |
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