£100m for 1 player? Has the world gone mad? It would seem so.
Before I start I am not jealous of City. If they can sign Kaka then good luck to them. They need all the luck they can get at the moment while struggling to survive in the Premier League. It would also benefit Liverpool as Kaka won’t do half as much damage playing for City as he can for Chelsea, Man U or Arsenal.
With City facing a relegation battle do they need a playmaker for £100m?
City have the second highest goal tally this year but at the same time also have one of the worst defensive records.
City at the moment need 2 goals just to be certain of a draw.
You could buy a new team for £100m and City do need to start again. For £100m they could sign players with Premier league experience such as Given, Heskey, Owen, Downing, Lescott, Parker & Alex to name a few. They would still have a chunk of money left over.
At this moment Kaka isn’t the player that City need and Mark Hughes knows it. He tells us that it’s his choice but does he expect us to believe he sat down and said “right, I want to sign Wayne Bridge, Craig Bellamy and…..Kaka.”
Not a chance.
The new owners want a “Marquee” signing and seem intent on bringing in Kaka regardless of the fact that he is a square peg in a round hole at this moment. He is also cup tied for the UEFA cup. I don’t think Kaka has ever been in a relegation battle but if he joins City that’s exactly what he will be in. Also he would have to do without European football for at least 2 years (unless City win the UEFA cup this year, unlikely) and Champions league football for a further 3 years.
I suppose that now City look like signing Craig Bellamy Kaka will be chomping at the bit to play for City!!!
Now to the player. Kaka is a deeply religious person and very loyal. If he does end up at City I think they will be signing a player who doesn’t want to be there. Everyone is saying Kaka is not interested in money and if that’s the case and AC Milan accept the £100 million bid (they would be mad not to) Kaka should turn around and say that he is disappointed in the club for taking the money and he will leave but to a club of his choice. If it’s all about football for Kaka then City cannot offer him anything that Milan, Madrid or any other top club can apart from more money.
Milan & Kaka turned down 2 bids from Real Madrid last year but if Kaka were to choose his next club it would Madrid and not City. Of course deep down Kaka is human and if offered £250k a week to play for an less than average team then why not take it? With so many clauses that he would have inserted into his contract then he could be out of Eastland’s by June this year if things go badly wrong.
City’s owners are hoping that by capturing Kaka this will lead to all world class players wanting to play for City. I don’t think this will happen. Torres, Gerrard, Ronaldo, Cassilas, Terry, Lampard, and Rooney have all said they would never play for City as its about medals and not money. At City they would be paid silly money but have nothing to show for it. After a while even a footballer can’t want any more money. There can only be a certain amount you earn before you get bored with it. Yes it’s a short career but 10 years of earning £100k a week is more than enough.
For football reasons alone I hope that Milan either turns down the money offered by City or that Kaka turns down the move himself. If Kaka does go to City he would have been pushed because as per before City cannot offer him anything football related that at least 10 world class teams can other than money. Milan would have sold their souls to the € signs. They would have lost a world class player and for me it would be the day that football died.
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