Chelsea close in on £50m Kaka as part of their £100m summer

• Trump_Card

  29 Apr 08, 08:50

  Chelsea close in on £50m Kaka as part of their £100m summer rebuilding

  

  Chelsea are confident of landing Brazilian superstar Kaka in a £50million deal from AC Milan.

   

  The Blues are ready to move after the Italian club agreed a £22m fee to sign Ronaldinho from Barcelona.

   

  Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and manager Avram Grant believe Kaka can be the hallmark signing of their planned £100m summer spending spree.

  And reports in the Mirror suggest that Milan's willingness to pull out all the stops to bring Ronaldinho to the club has put the Blues on high alert that a bid for the player who turns 26 on Tuesday would be successful.

  Chelsea feel it will be easier to prise Kaka away from Milan than to persuade Barca to part with their other top target Lionel Messi.

  Ronaldinho is ready to agree a £200,000-a-week five-year deal to move from the Nou Camp - making the Brazilian the highest-paid player in the world.

  But while Milan owner and newly re-elected Italian President Silvio Berlusconi has pushed the deal, Chelsea feel he will need to find a way of balancing the books.

  Milan already have Ronaldo and Brazilian teenage sensation Pato in their squad and Abramovich will use his strong links with the club, through the signing of want away Andriy Shevchenko, to clinch the deal.

  Carlo Ancelotti's side are in serious danger of missing out on Champions League qualification for next season.

  And if Milan are forced to play in the UEFA Cup, it is felt that the World Player of the Year would be reluctant to stay. But Chelsea will probably have to break the world record and pay as much as £50m to entice Kaka to Stamford Bridge.

• dragg

  29 Apr 08, 10:59

  夸张, 200k a week.

   

• eagle

  29 Apr 08, 11:01

  if only they could give me just 1% of the 100m pounds

• Y_Shun

  29 Apr 08, 13:29

  Don't waste money please....I believe they are many other players around.

• FirePig

  29 Apr 08, 13:56

  imo, ronaldinho is better in terms of football techniques. Kaka has more speed and will make a formidable diver if he chooses to. Also, kaka may have more market value as he is not dark-skinned.

  200k pounds per week for ronaldinho. No thanks...

• gunner77

  29 Apr 08, 16:56

  crazy money

• escadaraindrops

  29 Apr 08, 17:02

  kaka may be cute, but his pay is insane.

   

• stellazio

  29 Apr 08, 19:06

  madness, 55mil can buy u like 3 good quality players.

• Sienx

  29 Apr 08, 19:59

  is he worth 50mil ?

• youyayu

  29 Apr 08, 22:22

  Welcome to avarm grant era, the no-brain buyer.... he has lampard, ballack,joe cole and still not happy?

  200k a week?? pls la..they r paying 200k a week to someone when he sitting BEHIND the bench and crying over his injury and take money. Please... just look at shevchenko.. =.=" and they want to buy kaka over.. they might as well don't fired JM, let him have full use of the 100M la!!! when business man get into soccer.. soccer is screwd !!!!!!!

• reyes

  3 May 08, 01:49

  chelsea was never in crisis, thus never need to rebuilt.

   

  the only person that need to be replace is shevchenko,malouda, ben haim whose mouth are not lethal than their legs.

• bryanw

  3 May 08, 02:10

  kaka siah world class player not sundramoothy.

• reyes

  3 May 08, 17:37

  kaka has a bad season at milan.

  i dont think he is the right player chelsea need.

• brokenluv

  3 May 08, 18:26

  seriously speaking the current chelsea squad is quite strong. perhaps only a better right back is needed. midfield wise i see so many powerhouses

• Durotar

  3 May 08, 18:30

  It's not the coach who wants the player, it's prob Abrmovich. Or some idiot he installed in charge of signing players.