Friday, December 1, 2006

With a billion euros in their pockets from selling their TV rights for the next six years, Real Madrid are the new rich kids on the block. According to Italian Il Corriere dello Sport, Real Madrid Chairman Ramón Calderón is trying to keep the promise he made during the campaign that made him chairman of Real Madrid; He wants to buy AC Milan superstar Kaká. The chairman is believed to make a worldrecord breaking bid of 140 million euros.

Any transfer for that amount of money will break the current record, also in hands of Los Galacticos, for Zinedine Zidane who transferred from Juventus to Real Madrid for 73 million euros back in 2001.

If it is up to Calderón, that record will be broken soon. Kaká recently extended his contract until 2011 with Milan but in Madrid he could make up to 10 million a year.

People at Real Madrid aren’t very happy with Calderón’s bragging. His bragging could make it hard to seal any deals in the near future since now alot of clubs will negotiate with dollar signs in their eyes. Recently technical director Pedrag Mijatovic had already noticed the consequences when he tried to negotiate the transfers of Fernando Gago and Gonzalo Higuaín.

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