Re: Kaka - A theory.
Spot on. If we bid 100M in Jan, and RM are offering 56M, it's hard to see us not going back with another offer now. As someone mentioned previously, our owner likes to get his way.
To add to the conspiracy theory, I know we're officially saying challenge for top 6 this year, I think the likelihood is our management is really thinking about top 4, but, maybe there is another thing on our owner's mind. A scenario I haven't seen mentioned on here, is that maybe the plan is to put together a squad that can actually challenge for the title this year. Obviously it's difficult to do this (maybe crazy to even suggest it), but instead of 3 or 4 top-class players, maybe we're looking at 7 or 8. What if the owner said to MH don't just get a couple, buy the lot, whoever you can get your hands on. Wouldn't the prospect of this be enough to lure players like Kaka, Eto, Villa, Toure, Ribery, Chilleni etc. here? We can afford it and while there are no guarantees, it certainly would give us a chance. Maybe a pipe dream, but you never know.