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Real Madrid sign Kaka for £55m
The club will pay the Brazilian playmaker £200,000 a week, including his tax, and are now fighting Chelsea for David Villa’s signature
Real Madrid completed the signing of Brazilian playmaker Kaka from AC Milan last night for £56m (€65m), after the 27-year-old passed his medical for the Spanish club in Recife, Brazil. Kaka will be paid a staggering £200,000 a week, which the club will even pick up the tax bill on, and is the first of a series of spectacular transfers promised by the returning Real Madrid president Florentino Perez as he attempts to put together a team of Galacticos to match that he assembled during his last stint in control of the club. Chelsea had made a late bid to hijack the move, but Kaka had his heart set on the shift to Spain...
Manchester City has made a fresh enquiry after wantaway Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz, reports the Daily Mail. The renewed interest in the Paraguayan will release much-needed funds to Rovers boss Sam Allardyce, who is operating on a shoestring budget at Ewood Park. Austrian striker Marc Janko is believed to be high up on Allardyce's wishlist, and the Lancashire club will have to spend at least £7m bringing the 6ft 5in hitman from Red Bull Salzburg...
David Villa will maike his mind up about which club he will leave cash-strapped Valencia for this week, according to the Sun. Chelsea and Real Madrid are scrapping for the 28-year-old striker's signature, with the Londoners offering £38m for the Spanish international while Real have put together a cash-plus offer of £24m and hitman Alvara Negredo. Villa has already turned down a megabucks deal that would have taken him to Manchester City, and is believed to want to stay in his home country...
The Daily Mirror says that Wigan Athletic's £20m-rated Ecuadorian star Antonio Valencia is demanding that the club sell him to Manchester United this summer or else he will run down his contract with the Premier League overachievers and leave for just £6m next summer when he has just a year left on his deal. Sir Alex Ferguson is keen on the right winger, seeing him as a long-term replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo, but is unwilling to commit more than £17m to his signing... ·
