Is Kaka full of… well… Kaka?

AC Milan for life, thats what the Milan and Kaka camps would have us all believe now. There has been a lot of outrage surrounding the £107 million offer put forth by Manchester City of the English Premier league. John Molinaro of CBC sports wrote in his blog that the Man City bid was loathsome and irresponsible.

Others have vilified Milan for not sticking to the original offer and forcing Man City's hand until the Blues eventually had to walk away from the table.

All these events and instances that led to the dissolution of talks between Man City and AC Milan are just the consequences of doing business with an extremely high profile Player/Celebrity and the business of European Football in its present state. If the deal had gone through then the 50/50 split among the fans and pundits would still exist.

The facts are…
Man City is a basement dweller in serious danger of being relegated to the Championship next year. They have been sold and bought by an extremely rich and powerful Abu Dhabi United Group Investment and Development Limited to effectively become the richest club in the Premier League. With all this money they were put in a position to compete financialy with the Big Four in England Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea. They then snatched Robinho from the clutches of Chelsea and recently looked to lure the great Kaka from Milan for what would seem an inflated and unreal amount of money.

The Kaka situation in itself is a bit of a confusing one for me and I'm hoping that by writing this and getting some reaction from you I may better understand this.

This offer by Man City can in my opinion not be labeled as overblown and "loathsome" simply because of the amount it is, because quite frankly, if you look at the history of World Record transfer fees for the last two decades and beyond you will see that every 3,4,5 years the number doubles. The last world record transfer fee paid was for Zinadine Zidane in 2001 for £46.7 million from Real Madrid to Juventus. With Zidane ending his club football career with Real Madrid. Knowing this if you look at the bid put forth by Man City for Kaka we will realize that the Offer is just over double the last record which was set just over six years ago, seems pretty normal and on par to me.

The problem I had with this seeming debacle of a transaction was the carelessness and contempt which Kaka himself had displayed while these two teams were negotiating. He should have never talked to the Media until after the deal was rejected or accepted, it seemed to me that because it was Man City calling and not a Champions League contender, Kaka felt the need to hijack the proceedings from the beginning. Milan bowing ultimately to fan and media pressure decided to pretend Kakas faith and not wanting to leave Milan were the deciding factors.

Truth is, Milan knows its fans and its media, Milan would have never lived this transaction down and the Milan top brass would have been on the chopping block as a result.
BOTTOM LINE… MILAN CHICKENED OUT! And decided to use Kaka's hi-jinx to mask the fact.

No company or business on earth, that is responsible to itself or its shareholders would ever, ever, ever, turn down that amount of money for the loyalty of one employee/player… EVER.