Many of you have asked me to comment on Kaka’s big-money transfer to Real Madrid, as they remember that I begged the Brazilian to turn his back on Manchester City last January. Here is my reaction.
No, I am not a Manchester United fan and I don’t have anything personal against City.
I just insist that Rome was not built in a one day, and I would respect the Eastlands club much more if they were building a strong team step by step, not billion after billion.
Club identity is something that should remain alive. I am sure that the Maine Road fans know what I’m talking about.
One day, a rich investor changes your club into a supermarket and your team lose their identity because this market was more attractive than the Portsmouth or the QPR option for the rich investors that buy themselves a new toy.
No, Kaka’s transfer to Real Madrid doesn’t shock me, even if, obviously, I would have loved to see him stay at the San Siro for life.
One-club-player is the most beautiful thing in football, but life is not a fairy tale, and I know what I’m talking about.
Kaka moving to City would have been a disgrace because it would only have been about money. But the Brazilian playing in the Merengue shirt makes sense: the best players do play for the best teams.
Manchester City are not a great club, they are a respectable one, a competitive one, but there is only one Real Madrid. Have City won nine Champions Leagues? There’s no debate possible. Madrid are Los Galacticos, the Santiago Bernabeu, the white shirt, the prestige.