Manchester City have tabled an amazing £100 MILLION offer to AC Milan for Brazilian superstar Kaka. The Daily Mail says City chiefs are convinced they're about to make football history after making the offer during a meeting yesterday afternoon in Milan.
A four-man delegation, led by chief executive Garry Cook, met senior officials at Milan's headquarters with the authority to offer a personal cheque from Sheik Mansour for the Brazilian superstar.
The Abu Dhabi billionaire is prepared to make Kaka the world's highest-paid player on £15million a year after tax, the equivalent of £300,000 a week gross.
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's Prime Minister and Milan's owner, has resisted previous attempts to lure Kaka from San Siro, insisting repeatedly that he is not for sale at any price.
By Tuesday night, Berlusconi had gone a step further by giving authorisation for details of yesterday's meeting to appear on the official website of his media group.
A report named all the individuals involved and suggested Milan had taken "official notice" of City's offer.
"This time they (Manchester City) are here for real with an official delegation," said the report.
"Manchester City want Kaka at all costs and they have shown their cards. Garry Cook, two representatives of Sheik Mansour and Kia Joorabchian, who is acting as a mediator, met with Adriano Galliani and Ernesto Bronzetti (Milan's chief executive and commercial director) and made their offer."
City's delegation returned to Manchester last night and as yet they have held no official discussions with the 26-year-old Kaka, who won the Ballon d'Or and FIFA's world player of the year award for 2007.
Again, City hope an offer that is only on the table for the January transfer window will prove impossible for Kaka to resist.