Confusion reigns over Kaka deal
Manchester City have made a world record £100 million offer for Kaka
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Thursday, 15, Jan 2009 09:58
Manchester City's oil-rich owners are reportedly resigned to accepting that AC Milan icon Kaka will not be joining the club.
Reports in the Middle East say the Abu Dhabi-based consortium that took over at Eastlands last summer is drawing up a list of new targets.
But separate reports claim that the Brazilian superstar's father is flying to Italy to mediate talks between his son's representatives and Milan and City officials.
And Mark Hughes' assistant Mark Bowen has told BBC Sport Wales that a deal for the midfielder is "very close".
"We are still hopeful of still signing Kaka," the City assistant manager said.
"The situation has been a surprise to everyone but obviously negotiations have been going on for a fair while.
"How close we are I don't know but our understanding is that it is very much a strong possibility that Kaka will be coming to Manchester City."
Widespread reports of a £100 million bid for Kaka emerged yesterday, with the club reportedly to pay the 26-year-old £500,000 a week to swap Milan for Manchester.
Kaka himself has already distanced himself from a move to Eastlands.
"I want to grow old at Milan," the playmaker said last night.
"My aim is to become, at some point in the future, the captain of this team. I know there is a pecking order, with [Paolo] Maldini at the front and [Massimo] Ambrosini - but after that, maybe."
But a City spokesperson added that a deal for Kaka was "not impossible".
And the Brazilian's agent Diogo Kotscho urged Milan to consider City's "great proposal", indicating that his client was interested in talking to Hughes' team.
But Kotscho denied that money was the motivating factor.
"Kaka wouldn't do anything based on money," he told Corriere dello Sport.
"He would never do something like [Manchester City striker] Robinho, who, just to earn more, contented himself with a solution that was not a winning one."