Arrivederci Kaka!

By: Francesco | June 8th, 2009

So, it is now official. Kaka will play for Real Madrid next season. It wasn’t really a transfer saga, as it was concluded rather quickly, but it is without a doubt one of/if not the biggest transfer of the summer. The fee isn’t confirmed yet but it’s speculated to be around 68 million euro. Kaka amassed 193 appearances and 70 goals in his six years with the rossoneri and won 1 Scudetto, 1 Champions League, 1 FIFA World Club Cup, and 2 SuperCups (UEFA and Italian). It’s hard to imagine Milan without Kaka, and it seems like only yesterday that an unknown Brazilian youngster was signed by Milan to be an understudy to Rui Costa and exploded onto the world football scene.

It seemed as if Kaka would be Milan’s flagship player for years to come, and Paolo Maldini even said that he saw Kaka as his natural replacement for the captaincy. But when Milan saw those gigantic offers, first from Manchester City in January and now from Real Madrid, they had to take them into consideration. Here’s what Kaka said at his press conference:

“I wanted to stay on at Milan, but the global economic crisis has affected many clubs, especially those like Milan that run as a business. I spoke with the directors and we agreed that the transfer would be in everybody’s interests at this moment in time.”

So Kaka moves on, Milan moves on, calcio moves on. It’s never nice to see a big superstar leave Serie A, but what can you do.

For more on Milan, check Gianpaolo’s thoughts at the Milan offside page.

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Category: AC Milan, Players, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: AC Milan, Calcio, football, Futbol, Italy, Kaka, Milan, Players, Real Madrid, Rumors & News, Serie A, Soccer

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• alessio |  June 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

  
  
  

  Now Ibra!

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• Marco |  June 8th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

  
  
  

  Arrivederci Kaka’

  HELLO €65m :D

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• Dhaw |  June 8th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

  
  
  

  Marco,

  Maybe hello beckham also along with Victoria

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• Johonna |  June 8th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

  
  
  

  It is an obscene amount of money, though.

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• Mike |  June 9th, 2009 at 5:12 am

  
  
  

  How would you like to be Pellegrini, the Madrid manager, having to make all those egos and wallets and playing styles work as one unit. Good luck to him if this Galacticos thing goes through. Certainly didn’t work the first time around.
  http://startingeleven.blogspot.com/2009/06/kaka-moves-to-real-madrid-perez.html

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• Steven |  June 9th, 2009 at 9:11 am

  
  
  

  The thing that bothers me about this transfer, is all the ‘Italy is losing it’s status’-comments. Bullshit. Kaka’s been lured away to a competition where a huge debt is part of your business plan as a team. I still don’t get it why Spanish and English clubs are still allowed to do these kinds of transfers, while they’re 200 million in the red.

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• Marco |  June 12th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

  
  
  

  Welcome to Modern Football. As one guy put it “Real Madrid is also known as Royal Madrid” I know it’s a low jab but I thought it was clever. No offense to Madrid.

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