Talking telephone numbers |
 |  | | |
| |||
night's late-breaking transfer swoop story makes it into Wednesday
morning's papers, with varying amounts being bandied about.
The Sun
"Man City's £175m bid for Kaka"
MANCHESTER CITY last night offered a sensational £175million in a bid to land AC Milan superstar Kaka.
SunSport
understands that City chief executive Garry Cook and deal broker Kia
Joorabchian met Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani to make the
world-record bid.
Milan would pocket £100m and Brazilian
playmaker Kaka almost £75m for a five-year deal worth £15m a season —
or £280,000 per week.
According to a top Milan source, the Italians’ technical director Ariedo Braida was also at the meeting.
An informant at the negotiations said: “The Manchester delegation were determined to make their offer but it was rejected.
“But our owner Silvio Berlusconi is now concerned that the player himself may want this deal to happen.”
Berlusconi said: “I hope Kaka stays.”
But
Galliano told the City delegation: “We would not consider selling Kaka
for £100m — it would have to be an obscene amount more.”
The Italian giants have never sold ANY of their superstars but admit they have been taken aback by the jaw-dropping bid.
Milan have twice in the past rejected megabucks offers from Real Madrid.
But what only a few months ago seemed inconceivable still looks a possibility.
The 26-year-old Brazil star was the 2007 World Player of the Year.
He
was again a candidate this year but Manchester United ace Cristiano
Ronaldo was crowned as his successor in Zurich on Monday.
The midfielder has been the cornerstone of Milan’s success in recent years.
If
City’s offer is eventually successful it will eclipse the world record
£46m transfer that took Zinedine Zidane from Juventus to Real Madrid in
2001.
Kaka currently earns £10.8m a year at Milan and is the
second-highest paid player in Serie A behind £11m-a-year Zlatan
Ibrahimovic,
City boss Mark Hughes would be thrilled to pair Kaka with his fellow Brazilian Robinho.
Hughes was already keen to strengthen his midfield before yesterday’s news that Dietmar Hamann is out for three months.
The
former Germany star, who suffered the injury in training, will travel
to Switzerland to see a specialist for the exact diagnosis.
Hughes,
already without long-term injury victims Michael Johnson and Martin
Petrov, said: “Didi kicked a ball in training and unfortunately it
looks like he may have ruptured a tendon.
“The best-case scenario is that it will be nine weeks, but it could be 12.
“We are a bit light in midfield areas so we could have done without this.”
The Telegraph
"Kaka in £100m talks over Manchester City move"
The
Eastlands club have sent a delegation, thought to include chief
executive Garry Cook and chief operating officer Paul Aldridge, to
discuss a possible move with both the Italian side and the player, who
could stand to earn a staggering £15 million a year net or £500,000 a
week gross.
While City's Arab owners harbour hopes of
completing any possible deal before the transfer window closes at the
end of this month, sources inside the club believe the move is more
likely to go through in the summer.
That view was reinforced on
Tuesday when Milan's owner, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio
Berlusconi, said he knew nothing of the transfer and revealed that he
regards the Brazilian to be untransferable.
He said: "I know
nothing about a Manchester City offer for Kaka. I think he's not
transferable and given that is the case, he will stay at Milan."
The
Italian club's director Adriano Galliani has already indicated that his
side, for whom David Beckham made his league debut on Monday against
Roma, have finished their activity in the January transfer window, but
the Eastlands negotiators will be hoping to open up the possibility of
a summer move instead.
If City's mission proves fruitless,
either in the short or long term, it will lend the transfer window an
even deeper air of anticlimax for the club.
One Italian agent
admits the Eastlands side are being used as a bargaining tool in all of
Europe’s major leagues as players seek better deals with their current
clubs or an accelerated transfer to another.
He said: “Everyone
knows that Manchester City have lots of money, so if an agent wants to
get his client a new contract, he mentions that maybe the Premier
League team want to buy the player. That means more money is on the
table because Manchester City can offer the best wages.
Meanwhile, The Mirror goes back to the Craig Bellamy story.
"Manchester City increase Craig Bellamy offer"
Manchester
City made a new £10million bid for Craig Bellamy last night - as Blues
boss Mark Hughes edged closer to signing his old Wales and Blackburn
pal from West Ham.
City made their third offer in a fortnight although the Hammers want nearer £15m.
If they land Bellamy City may promise not to chase other Hammers, Scott Parker and Matt Upson.
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น