They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and that looks like it may just be the case with Brazil international Robinho and his son. Hit the jump to check out a video of Robinho’s son emulating his fathers stepovers and skills. This kid will probably be signed up by a club before we know it.

All that is needed to be said here is that there is video of Robinho and his son, Robson Junior, training at Milan’s training headquarters. You gotta see this one….

Hit the jump and see a young footballer in the making…..

**kids got a dirty left foot… lets start working on that right pops!!!

AC Milan four points clear at the top of Serie A.

Been a looong time since Robinho was playing consistently at an extremely high level (think Santos)… But he’s been in serious form over the last two months with AC Milan and the “King of Step-overs” might be back.

Robinho barely finds the back of the net before decided to play the “ball under my shirt/I’m pregnant/rock the baby to sleep” celebration… And the Zlatan comes out of nowhere with a karate kick to the gut.

Keep your eye on the 20 second mark….

Manchester City’s talks with Santos about the future of Robinho have broken down and the player is preparing to return to England and the deeply unsatisfactory prospect of beginning the season at a club where he knows he is not wanted and is profoundly unhappy and he has been unable to secure a deal elsewhere. City informed Santos they will not entertain the idea of extending his loan, which expires next Wednesday.

Robinho may now have little option but to return to Manchester, a city he never embraced, and set about trying to rebuild his relationship with Roberto Mancini, someone he has accused of managing with a “lack of ability”.

It cannot be discounted that Mancini will exclude him when he submits his 25-man Premier League squad on 1 September, throwing up the extraordinary possibility of the most expensive player in English football collecting his £160,000-a-week salary from the stands, only a few months after establishing himself as one of the stars of the World Cup.

Santos claim City have asked for €40m (£33.5m), which seems to be an exaggeration, but the Brazilians would not be in a position to pay even half that amount.

Luis Alvaro de Oliveira Ribeiro, the club’s president, said: “We are negotiating and we are hopeful, but Manchester City have made it clear to us they are not going to loan him again and that they just want to sell him. We can try a new loan in January. I think it would be easier then.”

Evandro de Souza, Robinho’s agent, said: “Unfortunately, this will probably be Robinho’s last game at Vila Belmiro. Manchester City have already told me and Santos they want him back after the end of the [loan] contract.”

Robinho’s thoughts about returning to Manchester can be gauged by the fact that when he moved to Santos in January he arranged for all his belongings to be shipped to Brazil, put his UK-registered Lamborghini up for sale and informed his landlord he would not be returning to the house he had rented since the previous summer. The forward had strategically chosen to rent after moving out of his first house because of a dispute with neighbours about the noise level at which he was playing music.

As it stands, Robinho will be under orders to fly to England after Brazil’s friendly against the USA on 10 August and could, in theory, be involved in City’s opening league game at Tottenham Hotspur four days later. Mancini, however, has been planning without him, with David Silva signed from Valencia for £25m and Mario Balotelli on his way from Internazionale for a similar fee, both of whom can play in Robinho’s preferred position.

“The situation is that Robinho will finish his contract with Santos,” Mancini said. “He will stay in Brazil for another week, play for the national team and, after that, he will return to Manchester City.”

Asked if he had any issues taking him back, Mancini said: “At this moment, no. But it depends on him.”

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Robinho gets his turn to Write The Future.