MILAN – Brazilian superstar Kaka has revealed that he followed his heart in choosing to stay at AC Milan rather than take up an offer of a reported 15 million euros a season to join Manchester City.
Milan president and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced the news late on Monday to end one of the most dramatic transfer sagas of all time.
Moneybags City, owned by the Abu Dhabi Group, had bid a reported world record 100 million euros for the former World Player of the Year and Milan gave the 26-year-old permission to talk to the English Premier League club. But Kaka has told Milan’s official TV channel that the Italian giants’ fans had played a significant role in convincing him to stay.
‘All the messages I received convinced me to choose with my heart and I think in the end that’s what I did. It was definitely not a financial decision,’ he said.
‘There were bits of information, claims, a lot of speculation which over these last few days even created a bad impression of my father.
‘That’s not the case, I’ve never argued with my father. I always make decisions within the family, my wife has also been wonderful, she helped me a lot and has always supported me in my decisions. ‘My family have been great and never tried to push me one way or another. In the end it is my history which has been decisive, where my legacy is and where in reality my heart is.’ Kaka denied that he was using the interest from City to try to get a pay rise at Milan, where he is already supposedly the second highest paid player in Italy behind Inter Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. – Nampa-AFP
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