Manchester City boss Mark Hughes is confident he can get the commitment he needs from Robinho.

He told the Daily Mail: "I have always felt that top players are easier to control because they have a professional mentality and a winning mentality and that is why they are at the top. Now it seems a bit bizarre to be talking like this considering what has happened with Robinho, but it will be addressed, mainly because I expect certain standards from my best guys.

"I will deal with Robinho in such a way that I absolutely would not expect this to happen again and I feel confident that if there was a longer problem with any player, even Robinho, I would have the go-ahead from Sheik Mansour to deal with it in whatever way I saw fit.

"People talk about assurances to Robinho, but any reassurance would just be repetition. He knows how I feel. I have no problem with good footballers. The ones that are a problem are those that have a higher opinion of their ability than is apparent and a higher opinion of their worth to the team."