The thing is at under 6 million a season, he represents a good bargain. The only trouble is the transfer fee involved.

For around 6m it would negate the cashing in on Silva process because that's what he was on.

Kaka imo would be another slap in the face to the fans as for that money we could have kept Silva and only sold Zlatan. It doesn't make any financial sense to get him

If we get Rossi and Sahin it would mean we have 2 quality young players for around 2m each (wages). Most likely that combined 4m wouldn't even be able to cover Kaka. So it just does not make any sense when we have other options to go for.

At this point keeping the wage bill at it's minimum is imperative. Our only high earners will be Mexes, Robinho and Pato to an extent. All on 4m IIRC

God you speak like one of them militant liberal feminist types (Don't ask me to explain, long story)!!! Silva was not sold coz of his wages. Silva was sold coz of his transfer fee. It was Zlatan who was sold for his wages.

Hence why we're not finalising Kaka. His wages at 5.5 million were agreed a long time ago. But Madrid want a transfer fee, which we're not willing to pay at the moment, coz it negates the whole benefit of the Silva transfer as you pointed out.

Sahin is on I think 3 million at Madrid. While Rossi is at 2.5 million and I remember he wanted Juve to double his wages, when they came looking a year or two ago.

Yes, the fact that they need playing time might mean it's negotiable, but somehow I doubt it. It would just mean we are talking a brand new contract at the end of the season with a massive escalated wage. Would much rather land these two on a long term contract at 3.5 million a piece.

I don't know who these liberal feminists you speak of are, but I specifically remember Silvio raving about how selling BOTH Zlatan and Silva will mean that we'll save 100s of millions in the next few years. If we were selling Silva just for the transfer fee than we would have sold him when PSG offered us 50m+ for him. We sold both because of the long term effect of their wages, Getting Kaka with 5.5M per season would be stupid, as we cannot afford to keep someone on that type of wage.

We don't know what they're on, Rossi has spent a year out and still has 4 months to go before he's recovered, he won't be expecting 4m per season because he simply cannot demand that of any club when it's already a gaurantee that he will miss out half the season. Getting him for the same wage bracket would still be far more feasible than just Kaka on 5.5m, add to that, he's a huge Milan fan and one would think that he's desperate to get our of Villareal seeing and they're playing in the Spanish Segunda.

And even if we were to offer Sahin 3m and Rossi 2.5m that would mean that those 2 players would cost us the same as Kaka would, and they wouldn't just be quick fixes but building blocks for the future of this team

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Certainly doesn't look like Zlatan hates Pato.

Hmh. Our former stars...

:'(

And hopefully our new star...

New injury for Pato. Details will follow soon.

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And here we go again.

UPDATE: He should stay out for 3 weeks, will probably recover for matchday 3.

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Can we just put this guy in a plastic bubble or something?

It's thigh injury again. Muscular. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Ok...everyone go home. We're done for this season.

How many of you would tribute this to Milan's training routine?! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I know Zed.D would.

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