City wait on Bellamy

Mark Hughes has revealed that Craig Bellamy is a big doubt for Manchester City's trip to Arsenal on Saturday.

Bellamy is struggling with a knee injury that he picked up playing in Wales World Cup Qualifier against Germany.

The Welshman is currently having treatment in Manchester and Sparky is waiting to see if the striker will be fit for Saturday.

There is some good news that Robinho should be fit for the trip to the Emirates but has Mark Hughes talks to Sky Sports, its good news about Bellamy that he's waiting for.

"Craig has got a little bit of an issue with his knee," said Hughes "He felt it in training earlier in the week after the game (against Finland).

"He's back in now, we're having a look at it and we will see how it is. He's a big doubt for the weekend.

"As for the rest of them, we're just waiting for them to come back so we can see them personally, but we haven't had any information from the associations that any other players have a problem."

Robinho was substituted during Brazil's win over Peru on Wednesday, but Hughes is optimistic his record signing will make the squad at Emirates Stadium.

He added: "We've had a message back that he should be okay, but obviously he's not getting back until Friday afternoon."

And as Sparky turns his attention to Robinho, its not the Brazilians form that he's worried about.

Hughes continued: "I think it was a case that he's come to a new league, a new team, a new club and had a great impact in the initial part of it.

"Obviously, at this moment in time, he's playing week in, week out and it's something he hadn't done for quite some time, so maybe there was a little reaction to all those factors and he hasn't been able to have the impact he did initially.

"It's also maybe a consequence of other teams as well having the knowledge of what Robbie wants to do against them and they try to negate that, so we have to give a little bit of credit to the opposition stopping Robbie having an influence on the game."