Kaka to Chelsea for 80m?

Kaka is the WPOTY and done extremely well against English sides in the past. I don't think an over-the-hill 30 year old Shevchenko failure will put him off really. Kaka is in his prime, and if he can't 'cut it' in the EPL, then the EPL may as well stop buying foreign players. That's not to say he's worth 80m of course, because no one is.

@ Bunny

I agree, they'd do very well out of it, but I can see why fans wouldn't want him to leave still. They can bring in a couple more first team players for the next season, or even in January, if neccessary.

No player is worth £80m IMO. The marketing will of course make some profits for Chelsea but I'm still not sure that he is the most marketable of players. He just seems too nice.

Still, he's a world class player and will undoubtedly improve Chelsea's squad. Isn't very injury prone either which is always a plus

Kaka No,Robinho Yes

The arrival of former Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari in West London
has inevitably led to rampant speculation linking the Blues to the
world's top samba stars, but Kenyon suggests that much of what is being
reported owes more to media fantasy rather than reality on the ground.

"There was no offer made. I have read the same articles," said Chelsea's CEO when pressed on the Kaka rumours.

"They have made it clear that he is not for sale and we will make it clear we have not made an offer.

"There is no reason to negotiate over something they don't want to do and we have not made an offer."

Kenyon
was distinctly more positive on the prospect of Robinho suiting up for
the club next season in that he confirmed that their interest in him is
real and still ongoing.

"It is well noted we have shown interest," he added.

"We have had discussions with Madrid over it and they are ongoing. The window is still open and we are still talking to Madrid."

Indeed,
of the two Brazilian super-talents, Robinho would appear to be the more
realistic option considering that he is widely acknowledged to be
unsettled at Madrid.

According to the latest reports from
Spanish sports daily Marca, Robinho has now well and truly become
disillusioned with the board at the Bernabéu, and has now now become
desperate to become part of Scolari's Chelsea revolution.

And then in Marca's update today, they claim to have an exclusive that he will sign a new 5 year contract.

For what it's worth, a Sun journo on Five Live tonight said that all this is Kaka and his people (the Diogo guy is a friend, not an agent) being cute and trying to get a better deal out of Milan. He has no intention of leaving. Galliani,meanwhile, gets kudos for shouting from the rooftops about being offered vast sums for Kaka and turning them down. Robinho's move to SB is more likely.

Kaka: The £1m per month man (from Guardian sport)

Kaka, the World and European Player of the Year, is likely to become the first £1m-a-month footballer if Chelsea manage to sign the Milan midfielder, who 'is of interest to the club', executives at Stamford Bridge confirmed last night.

The staggering potential salary dwarfs David Beckham's on-field earnings at LA Galaxy and any previous pay for a player anywhere in the world. It would also cause Chelsea's current highest earners to seek their own increase, as would others in the top flight, where it is thought the highest-paid stars currently receive around £130,000 a week.

The 26-year-old, whose representative last week claimed Chelsea had made a €100m bid for him, signed a new deal earlier this year, which by 2013 will earn him a €13m (£10.25m) salary - just less than £1m a month.

'Kaká's contract gives him €9million in its first season and rises by a million euros for each of its five years,' a Milan source told Observer Sport. 'To better that, Chelsea will have to begin at more than £200,000 a week.'

With a similar step arrangement likely, during the course of a five-year deal at Stamford Bridge Kaká would expect to see his wages rise to at least £250,000 a week and he 'has been offered a considerably bigger offer than Milan's', a source close to the player confirmed to Observer Sport

Both clubs have issued official denials that a bid had been made, but are believed to be keen to do business over Kaká. The Italian club are conscious that, with a month of the transfer window remaining, the deal should happen as soon as possible so they would be able to reinvest what would be a sizeable fee in the players needed to rebuild after failing to qualify for the Champions League this year.

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I still believe. Come on, Adebayor for £30M!

Kaka will not move from Milan. Abramovich can shove it.

I have bought Kaka for 8 Euros! Beat that!

Fey wrote:I have bought Kaka for 8 Euros! Beat that!

I got a special offer

7.99 Euros