Robinho Only has eyes for Madrid

By European Football
July 6 2005

He may have been connected with Arsenal and Chelsea but Brazilian wonder-kid Robinho is desperate to join Real Madrid, which is causing a bitter war of words Between himself and his present club Santos:

"I want to play at Real Madrid," said Robinho.

"I want to get out of Santos so I expect to resolve this as soon as possible.

"I don't have my mind on Brazilian football anymore.

"I will only leave Brazil if I go to Real Madrid because that's the best team in the world. But if I don't leave Santos now I will stay until the ending of my contract."

"I hope that Santos president Teixeira does what he has promised because I don't want to take this to court at Fifa. I love Santos and I want to leave being happy, not angry.

"The officials of Santos promised to me in October that they were not going to cause any problems in letting me be transferred to Real Madrid so I expect them to do now what they had promised.

"I want to get out of Brazil because I think that this is the right moment for doing it. In addition to that they had told me that I was going to be able to leave for Real Madrid once Santos ended their participation in the Copa Libertadores and that has happened already.

"It's difficult for me to say that I don't want to play anymore at Santos but that is because I had been promised that I was going to be transferred to Real Madrid.

"Nothing is going to stop the love that I have for Santos supporters and I am never going to forget the titles that I have won at Santos.

"The intelligent supporters understand that I have the right to play at Real Madrid and they are going to be proud of seeing me wearing that shirt."