City open talks with Milan over Kaka transfer

I can just picture the conversation between Kaka and Robinho in the next selecao training.

Robinho: How could you say no to all that money?
Kaka: I'm already making more then I can spend. I'd rather win trophies.
Robinho: Trophies or money. Difficult. I like money alot.
Kaka: In 100 years no one will remember how much you earned, only how much you won.
Robinho: We have the League Cup in England. Only other team that cares about that is Tottenham. Maybe we could win that some day and get some nice bonuses. I like bonuses.
Kaka: I'd rather play in the Champions League.
Robinho: Alot of money in that tournament. How many cars do you have?
Kaka: Exposure. The more you're on TV the more likely people will appreciate your skills.
Robinho: We've been on TV this season. When we play someone good that Sky channel sometimes shows up. I like cars.

 

Unfair on Robinho.

It wouldn't surprise me if Kaka earned just as much or more than Robinho, and Robinho has been the one who has been challenging the team for their attitudes in regards to challenged the "top four".

 

Seems Robinho went AWOL from training. Guess he's not a happy camper these days.

 

Quick question, how is Real Madrid your foe? Has City ever played them in a official game?

 

I know Man City made a crazy offer ,but it aint like Milan are some downtrodden pauper team.
They regularly buy up the best talent from the lesser italian teams. They have stayed at the top of italian football buy being rich.Lets not pretend otherwise.

Back in the 90s they would regularly go out and smash transfer records domestically and abroad.

 

From the OS:

"AC Milan bottled it"


Executive Garry Cook has reaffirmed the Club’s stance over last night’s decision to walk away from any deal involving AC Milan midfielder Kaka.

Speaking this morning at the City of Manchester Stadium, Cook told us: “It’s a mixture of disappointment and some frustration too.

“I think the intention from AC Milan was clearly to sell their player and Manchester City’s intention was clearly to bring him to the football club.

“I think there was some political pressure and definitely media space that they engaged in. To be honest, I think they bottled it, simple as that.”

“They live in a different space than we do as a football club and it’s been interesting to watch their behaviour.”

Despite numerous media reports in Italy and throughout the country, Garry continued to set the record straight: “We never met the player, we only met the representatives, we never actually made him an offer on personal terms.

“So it’s very difficult to turn down something that you’ve not been offered.

“We’ve heard everything and there’s been a bit of mudslinging, but we’re going to choose not to get into that, our objective is that we’re building a football club for the long term.

“It would have been great to have had Kaka at this football club, the Premier League would have benefitted, football would have benefitted and we were willing to make that investment on rational terms. Unfortunately, the behaviour that they showed was not what we had expected nor had we anticipated.”

Cook also cleared up reports surrounding the visit to Milan. He confirmed: “We’ve been to Milan four times and the delegation yesterday involved three lawyers that represent the legal counsel for Manchester City football club.

“It also involved a board member who had flown half way around the world from Abu Dhabi, myself and one other senior executive.

“We were confined to a room, with no food or drink, and we asked some questions of the football club and more importantly we asked some questions of the representatives of the player and they simple could not answer the questions.

“What they wanted to talk about was; ‘how much are you going to pay him?’We chose not to get into that and we didn’t make an offer to the player.

“Is he a great footballer? Yes. Does he represent all the values you would want to have as an ambassador of the sport global and were we looking for the opportunity to joint venture in areas that would take this club on to a different platform? Yes, but unfortunately the landscape changed and his representatives wanted to talk about how much we were going to pay him.

“Money was certainly the motive yesterday.”

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Cook does not sound like a happy camper.

 

tbh.... I don't think we've heard the last from man city this transfer window.. I can just see the headlines tomorrow.. "Man City in $200 million Messi bid..." ... ok, I'm exagerating a bit.. but I have a feeling that the owners want to bring in someone of that profile before the window closes - to encourage more players to join in the summer...

 

I'm glad it's over, and given the team's needs, I'm not exactly in despair about not getting him.

A major downside is that we're going to be hearing an awful lot of variations on this theme in the future.

 

So basically Cook went all the way to Milan, was never given food or water and didn't want to speak about Kaka's wages? Does this make any sense? Wasn't this supposed to be a gigantic deal? Why the heck wouldn't he talk about the player's wages? Isn't that an important part of negotiations?

 

Unless the deal was contingent on City and Kaka agreeing on wages, which it doesn't sound like it ever was, what would City gain by talking wages when there definitely was not a deal in place?

 

As much as I hate to say this... and I know this may have been addressed many times before but I'm really starting to worry for Mr. Mark Hughes... I think he's a dead man walking and has been since the day the takeover went down. Don't get me wrong, I truly admire the coach but the more and more I think about it he just may not be the man for 'project Manchester City' as he just doesn't have experience working with players of this calibre or any trophies to his credit.

I think if City had a coach like Mourinho/Hiddink, etc... I think a player of Kaka's profile would be more easily persuaded to work under a manager of that prestige... Hughes just doesn't have that CV on him - and it's not like he can point to the results/performances he's achieved this season to argue otherwise. I'm not saying the Mourinho or Hiddink is definitely on his way and I'm not directly blaming Hughes for this deal not going through.... I'm just saying that world class players want to work under world class coaches and Hughes just doesn't quite fit that bill, yet. With Hughes at the helm I think you're definitely going to see 'more Bellamey / less Kaka' - type players - good enough to battle for a top half finish but not quite what is needed to build a champions league challenge.

Anyhoo.. just my two cents.

 

Ok, just follow the line of thought: you are the representative of a club that's trying to sign a player for the sum of 100 million euros, more than twice the previous world record. You go all the way to his club to hold talks and try to convince the player and his club to agree to a deal. They ask about the wages. What do you do?

 

I think that a lot will depend on how the rest of this season goes. If Hughes is able to continue to lead City on this upward trend on the league table and finish in an UEFA Cup spot I think that will help. It would help even more if Hughes is able to get this team deep into the UEFA Cup. Get more exposure across Europe (for results on the field rather than transfer rumors).

 

You'll have more luck buying the Bayern stadium toilet cleaner for 10million euro.

The elite clubs in Europe don't need your money, hasn't this Kaka ordeal taught you anything?

 

The elite clubs, so called, in Europe need money more than anybody else, it's how they stay in the elite.

It's not a lesson that should have been necessary, but I'm afraid that the only lesson that will come out of this is that flashing stupid money is a very effective route to overspending for everything.

 

Bayern have never been in the business of selling its top players just to make a profit unless they are deemed surplus. I can't speak for the rest but it doesn't seem like the elite clubs are lining up trying to sell their star players to this golden turd of a club called Manchester City unless you're looking for overpriced garbage like Bellamy and De Jong.

 

How do you think they've financed their decades old habit of cherry picking the rest of the Bundesliga?

 

Don't feed the trolls

 

Enlighten me oh wise one...

 

Bayern is a more prestigious club then Man City, I highly doubt Ribery would move.