Man City offer Kaka £500,000 a week!

[under the bar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7827696.stm

Manchester City have opened talks with Italian side AC Milan over the transfer of their Brazilian playmaker Kaka, BBC Radio 5 Live understands.

A report on Mediaset, a website of Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi, says City want Kaka "at all costs".

A City delegation has reportedly met with their Milan counterparts with a bid of £100m and a weekly wage of £500,000 on offer for the 26-year-old.
The Eastlands club refused to comment on the latest transfer reports.

A City spokeswoman told BBC Radio Manchester: "We have been linked with in excess of 70 names that could have been coming in this transfer window.

"We are not going to be drawn into any speculation on any names, no matter who they might be."


The current record for a player's signature is £46m when France's Zinedine Zidane moved from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2001.

Kaka joined Serie A giants Milan from Sao Paulo in 2003 and has since won the league title, Champions League and Club World Cup.

The attacking midfielder has also picked up the Ballon d'Or and Fifa World Player of the Year awards in 2007.

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, estimated to be worth £15bn, took over as City owner in September 2008 and extensive funds have been made available to manager Mark Hughes.

However, he has only secured the services of Wayne Bridge in January's transfer window, with bids rejected for West Ham forward Craig Bellamy and Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz. 

RECORD TRANSFERS
£47m Zinedine Zidane (Juventus - Real Madrid)
£37m Luis Figo (Barcelona - Real Madrid)
£34m Hernan Jorge Crespo (Parma - Lazio)
£32.5m Robinho (Real Madrid - Man City)
£31m Christian Vieri (Lazio - Inter Milan)
£30.75m Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham - Manchester United)

The four-man delegation who travelled to Italy to initiate talks with the Milan officials is reported to include executive chairman Garry Cook and two representatives of the Sheikh.

BBC Radio 5 Live's senior football reporter Ian Dennis says the reported move underlines Sheikh Mansour's "desire to transform Manchester City", although he added "actually pulling off what would be an incredible coup is another matter entirely".

With the club struggling in 15th position in the Premier League, it would give City an incredible boost if they were to seal the deal for one of the world's best players.

Having started his career with Sao Paulo where he scored 58 goals, Kaka moved to Milan for £5m and has scored 86 goals in 244 appearances.

Kaka is on a contract at the San Siro until 2013 and although he stated in February that he wanted to remain at Milan for the rest of his career, he did hint at a desire to play in the Premier League - a division he has described as the "best championship in the world".

[Goats Do Shave]

Ridiculous!

[clarshack]

Kaka moving to Milan for £5m was a bit of a bargain

[Tony Baloney]

Let's not get carried away. I heard on the radio this morning it was only £260,000 a week.

It's like fantasy football without the budgetary restrictions!

[anportmorforjfc]

ONLY 260,000 A WEEK 

[Tonto]

ONLY 260,000 A WEEK 

I wouldn't get out of bed for it

[Hound]

Let's not get carried away. I heard on the radio this morning it was only £260,000 a week.

It's like fantasy football without the budgetary restrictions!

260k a week - NET!

But the bid is only a 100 million euro....

[Square Ball]

doesnt matter if its £500,00 or £260,000 per week, as GDS said its a  ridiculous amount of money.

[Tony Baloney]

Even with Kaka on board Man City are not going to win the Premiership let alone the CL, so how do they plan on recouping the money invested?

[Bensars]

Fair play to him, if someone is silly enough to offer that kind of money they deserve all they get. Hope he signs a 10 year coontract

[BennyHarp]

Its completely ridiculous, i dont even think he's all that good! A good season a few years ago and pretty anonomous since! Teams need to be built up gradually, starting from the defence - throwing a "superstar" into a team is never going to win them a league title!

[under the bar]

Even with Kaka on board Man City are not going to win the Premiership let alone the CL, so how do they plan on recouping the money invested?

It sould seem that the new owners who are earn 100's of billions every year, dont need to recoup.  Oasis wanted to play the millennium stadium as they have done a few times in the past and were told to get lost as the club didn't need the money.

[BennyHarp]

Even with Kaka on board Man City are not going to win the Premiership let alone the CL, so how do they plan on recouping the money invested?

It sould seem that the new owners who are earn 100's of billions every year, dont need to recoup.  Oasis wanted to play the millennium stadium as they have done a few times in the past and were told to get lost as the club didn't need the money.

The millennium stadium??? 

[Lecale2]

Have they bought it as well?

[mountainboii]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7830199.stm

There could be life in this yet. He is 'very close' to signing according to Mark Bowen (Citeh's assistant manager).