Hughes backs Robinho to shine

MANCHESTER CITY boss Mark Hughes will unleash Robinho on Hull today believing the Brazilian can remind everyone what a class act he is.

The £32.5million (€40m) striker has not made a Premier League appearance for the Blues since mid-August, the vast majority of that absence created by a stress fracture of an ankle that he suffered on World Cup duty for Brazil in Argentina.

That three-month void has been filled by endless speculation about the 26-year-old’s future, most of which has suggested he will depart Eastlands for Barcelona, if not during the January transfer window, then at the end of the season.