Another day, another few thousand words on Robinho, surely the most written-about player in the Premier League at the moment, or so it seems here at WTPS Towers.

Today it's good news, and straight from the horse's mouth via the Mirror's respected writer Oliver Holt, who reports that Robi is insisting that his dad never said them things, as Glenn Hoddle might put it.

The quotes that have supported various stories of Robi's discomfort at living in Manchester - as if - and need to get away to somewhere sunny like, say, Barcelona are said to come from Robi Snr.

Not so, Robinho tells the Mirror: "My father represents me and he has never given an interview. He is my only representative. I'm so happy at my club. We talk a lot."

Maybe not as much as he'd like, since Kaka, his Spanish-based Brazil team-mate, had to stand in as an interpreter so that Ollie and his colleagues could understand Robinho's thoughts.

But it is noted that he greeted his fellow Blues Wayne Bridge, Joleon Lescott and Shaun Wright-Phillips "like long-lost brothers" when they met up, hardly the sign of a man itching to go.

He still says he would like to play in Brazil's midweek game, which won't go down well at Carrington, but Brazil coach Dunga pledges: "We are going to send him back to Manchester in a condition to play." Not bad, considering that would be in better shape than when he left ...

Robi will be sitting watching the England game like the rest of us, and maybe mulling over Gilberto Silva's sage advice yesterday. "Learn the language, son," said the Arsenal old boy.

Robi, you can always join Pablo Zabaleta's weekly lessons with Trisha, but there's a bit of catching up to do ...