. 

The move will no doubt force Calderon to sweat on his position after failing to bring Cristiano Ronaldo to the Spanish capital and controversially claiming that it is wrong to force a player to stay at a club, labelling it as slavery – a position cringingly backed up by FIFA´s Sepp Blatter. 

No doubt Robinho will receive a hefty fine for his troubles making the situation worse than it already is. 

Chelsea have recently increased their initial bid for the young Brazilian to around 30M euros – Real want 40M but I would imagine a final bid of 35M coupled with Robinho´s new rebellious posture should seal the move to Stamford Bridge. 

After meeting with Calderon, Robinho´s agent Wagner Ribeiro said:  

"I told Calderon we have a proposal of 32million euros (£25.4m) from Chelsea and that Robinho wants to leave. 

"He [Robinho] said there is no point being unhappy and unproductive at the club. 

"But Calderon said he would not sell for 100m euros (£79.25m). 

"I left the meeting thinking that was that, but after talking to other leaders of the club I saw that this position might change." 

"Robinho said to Calderon that he was treating him the same as (FIFA president) Sepp Blatter said that Manchester was doing with Cristiano Ronaldo. 

"That is, slavery.” 

"Madrid don't want to release the attacker, in the same way Manchester was with the Portuguese. 

"If they don't let Robinho go, he will continue, sad, and in the coming year will be worth far lower than the value currently offered by Chelsea."

For Calderon’s part this could spell the end of his presidency as his handling in the media (spouting off with gay abandon at times) of various transfer targets and sometimes failing to deliver hasn’t done anything to impress the Real Madrid electorate.

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