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Kaka refuse a £ 500.000 a week transfer deal!!!
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"AC Milan playmaker Kaka has turned down a lucrative move to Manchester City.
The Premier League club had reportedly bid in excess of £100m for the 26-year-old Brazilian and offered him weekly wages of £500,000."
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/7838966.stm
Well this is for the Euros mainly, but might be interesting to anyone who love sports.
Manchester city made an offer to AC Milan of £ 100 million ( $ 140 million) to buy the player,offer accepted by the club.
The total amount for the deal would have coste Man City around £ 250 million between transfer fee, player wages and agent fees.
But Kaka, one of the best footballers in the world, refused an incredible offer of about £ 500 K a week (about $ 750 K ) transfer, because he said that he loved AC Milan and there are things more important than money in life.
Considering the player at the moment is on a £ 150K a week wages, I find this kind of mentality quite refreshing, I don't know many people who would have turned down the chance earn 3 times their salary.
Has Kaka been a fool to refuse, or was he right to draw a line on what money can buy and follow his heart instead?
Does nowadays loyalty to a club make sense anymore?
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see if he says 'no' if he was making 50k a year...
He's already rich.
Rich with 50k a year.... I dont think so.
I would have taken the deal.
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Yes but with this deal he would have been £ 100 Million richer in 5 years, at the moment is going to get only £ 30 Million with his current club, since he didn't even ask for a pay rise to his actual club AC Milan.
I mean would anyone refuse to earn 70 Million more than they earn now? Honestly
Don't know about Baseball or basketball players, but in Soccer the players are like prostitutes, they would sell themselves for a penny more, so the reaction of Kaka was totally unusual.
Good hes not a greedy person, cares more about the team then money. Soccer players have better choices since they pick where they want to play, not like the any other sport where they are owned and are traded without any warning.
I'm not really impressed. Honnestly, if I made 150k pounds a week, I wouldn't be concerned about money either. I mean geez, 500k pounds a week, what the heck are you going to do with all that money?
i think he has a better offer why he turned down that 500k per week salary...
wish i have that kind of money
Because he likes the club he plays in and wanted to stay there.
He didn't even ask for a payrise to his current club.
In soccer this kind of behaviour is unheard of, all the player are like prostitustes who will change team for few bucks more, let alone millions.
15 years ago the majority of players were like him, now there is none left, which is a shame.
You are supposed to play with your heart for the team, it shouldn't be just a job, it's sport after all.................
Stupid money in pointless sports when all this money could be going to do something useful like research on cancer or helping out with disease in poor parts of the world. Footballers get paid too much to do a job they love and tbh they need to go back on the wage they had back in the 60's.
I think it's good to see things like this. I'm sure he has more money then he knows what to do with and realizes he doesn't need any more. Perhaps he does actually play for the game and not the money.
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make a swimming pool of paper money, and charge people to swim in it. Or, just buy your own 3rd world country.
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I thank Kaka for restoring some sense into football
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Theres a couple of factors that could have helped him make this decision..
First as said before, he already earns loads.. loads plus loads is still loads
Secondly theres the fact that we're not taking in account the taxes. I believe taxes in england are very high, so in the end he might have not ended up earning as much more as stated by the other person.
Thirdly and most import.. the club... Lets be honest, if you are playing in one of the best clubs in world, who is allways in the top events and world rankings, who allows you to get more notoriety and thus be recognised as a better player and even help with your international career (national team), would you really want to move to a worse club? Its not like man city is a top dog in europe, making huge campaigns in the champions league (they don't really manage to qualify most of the times) and in their home league.. So why would he change clubs for a bit more money? For US people I suppose that would be the same as a player who is playing in on of the top NBA clubs, usually making it far into the playoffs and even winning it, changing its club for one that doesn't even get to the play-offs..
Man city is just another club who was bought by some oil millionaire who can afford to spend ridicullous amounts of money.. its not a big club, and I doubt it will ever be in the near future.. There have been loads of clubs being bought by millionaires in the past years, specially in England, but that ddidn't turn them into top clubs (with the exception of Chelsea.. but they were already on of the best in England).
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Aye I do agree, but this trend is ruining football, I hope that Kaka decision will make everyone involved in football rethink their priorities.
Well in fact this had already had an adverse effect on Man City, Robinho their top player which they bought last summer for 38 Millions, decided to leave the training camp and go back to Brazil...without telling anyone.
Apparently he understood the mistake he made and wants to leave the club, Lol!
I hope more players will follow his example, so all those rich twats can sod off and stay away from football.