Is City’s Robinho damaged goods?

Braziliant! screams the website of Manchester City Football
Club, now the world's richest thanks to its takeover by an Arab consortium led by Sulaiman al-Fahim.

The headline refers to the unexpected signing of the 24-year-old Brazilian Robinho - unexpected because all the talk had him going to Chelsea - for a Premier League transfer fee record of £32.5m. It left fans unsure whether to put a tea-towel on their head (as they were doing for the TV cameras this morning) or dance the samba.

Robinho will be joining up with Elano, with whom he won the
Brazilian championships with Pele's old team Santos in 2002 and 2004. If he can dazzle in Britain's wettest city, City fans may have reason to