One of the most talked-about transfer sagas finally ended a week ago with Kaka refusing to move to Man City. Its hardly surprising really, in this writers humble opinion.

First of all, why would anyone in their right mind want to freeze his preverbials off in the North of England?. I know Robinho made the transition but he wasn’t really happy at Real Madrid and I’m guessing the mad amount of money that he was offered was too good to be true. Kaka is still a massive part of the Milan team and to lose him would be disasterous for the Rossoneri. I have my own thoughts on how this possibly went down when Garry Cook went to Milan.

I think he went there with complete arrogance and his ‘We’re Man City and we have so much cash you can’t refuse’ obviously fell on deaf Italian ears. Either that or they just laughed at him. Anyway, City claimed Milan ‘bottled it’ but, in reality, is that such a bad thing? I really don’t think Milan would want to get rid of their best player and, lets be honest, one of the best players of our modern game. I don’t ever think Milan wanted to let him go but thought they’d humour City into thinking they could get him. And the moral of this story is? Money can’t buy you everything, there are some things that are untouchable. Kaka is definately one of them.

Even though City have got all this cash, it still feels ludicrous that they’re being linked with everything with a pulse. Its things like this that are ruining the Premiership. Its like cheating at Footy Manager and giving Gloucester City £100bn. We’ve all done it at some stage and its fun, but when it happens in real life we’re up in arms at this. City need to be wary about how much they spend on these players. They’ve already splashed an absolute fortune on Robinho, Kompany, Jo, Wayne Bridge and Craig Bellamy. Sorry but those last two make me laugh something awful. Wayne Bridge used to be a footballer and how he commands a double figure sum is beyond me. Same goes for Bellamy. What has he ACTUALLY done in his career to get a £12m move to City? He’s skillful but in no way is he worth more than £4m. Its signings like this that could ruin City. Its signings like this that prove they have no ambition and the highest they’ll finish is probably 8th. They can’t just buy their way into the top 4. It takes hard work, a squad thats compatible with each other and a manager that knows what he’s doing. Anyway, with this neverending Credit Crunch affecting the World, should City really be throwing about all this cash? And will it lead to success? I really don’t think so. Chelsea, for all their billions have struggled since Lord Jose legged it. They’re just not the force they once were and splashing out money on disasters like Malouda, Pizarro and Cashley Cole have shown that they really were tactically solid under Jose and since then they’ve been poor. Not terrible, but you get the idea. City are a far cry worse than Chelsea and I really don’t think Sparky is up to this job. He just isn’t a top manager. He did alright at Blackburn but he didn’t win anything. Again, money came in as a major factor here. He’s being found out though and soon enough he’ll be booted in place of someone like Ancelotti or Guus Hiddink.

Back to Kaka though, the man is a different kind of footballer that you don’t really see these days. He’s caring and a man of God. Although I don’t really buy into this religious nonsense, I think what he does is pretty inspiring. He works for charities and I’ve also heard that he gives a substantial amount of his wages to help poor kids or other charities. OK, you see players going to hospitals for pictures with the sick kids but thats an obligation and I bet they really don’t want to be there. These Premiership players wouldn’t even donate money to nurses to help their wages!. They just do it to up their image and reputation as a ‘caring member of the community’. Kaka actually means these things and its with this that I raise the most important point of why he didn’t go to City.

Its not about money.

The £500k A WEEK he was reported to get didn’t even phase him. If anything it was a deterent. He really doesn’t care about the money and I think the fact that City were willing to thrown millions at him showed that he was sticking to his principles. Good on him I say. Again, offer that to the likes of Cashley Cole and he wouldn’t just swerve off the road, he’d be wrapped around a tree.

City need to learn that they can’t just throw money at someone and they’ll come running. There is no ‘i’ in team and there certainly isn’t a ‘Kaka’ in that team either. 

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