I am a self confessesed football fan. I have been all my life, I support Chelsea FC.
Back in 2003 Chelsea were taken over by Roman Abromavich, one of the worlds richest men. Roman financed a great change in Chelsea football club buying some of the best football players in the world and as a result Chelsea had two years of great success. Whilst the money was a great boost to the club nothing out of the ordinary really happened. The players Chelsea purchased were purchased for not out of the ordinary fees and the wages were, in the football world, quite normal.
How things change.
Manchester City, who are now owned by a Billionaire conglomerate, have rumoured to have put a £100 MILLION bid for Brazilian footballer Kaka.
Kaka is a man of religion. Always talking about his love for god and Jesus and he does donate a lot of money to the Christian church. But for the love of the game this transfer deal cannot happen. I don’t care how good you are no player in this world is worth £100 million, no player in this world deserves $1 million A WEEK for kicking a football.
I flicked over to the sky website today and there was a picture of Kaka and underneath there was a picture of a starving child suffering from malnutrition and famine.
The leading voices in football are saying this deal is insanity. This is not sour grapes becuase one of the best players in the world are going to a rival team. It is insanity because this deal could possibly ruin the game for good.
Footballers used to be like us, normal hard working guys who earned the same amount of money. That is why we identified with them, the very reason why we used to mimic them in the street after school with jumpers for goalposts. But now they are like aliens, out of touch and out of reality.
It is in Kaka’s hands. But if he is a man of truth, he knows that it is not all about the money. If he does sign, the world really has gone mad.
