Take the money: Sell Kaka to Chelsea

If a report in The Guardian today is accurate, Chelsea have placed a world record €100 million (£79.3 million) bid for AC Milan's star Brazilian midfielder Kaka. If the fee is accepted by the Serie A side, it would more than smash the previous record of £46 million which Real Madrid paid for French midfielder Zinedine Zidane in 2001.

According to a subsequent report on ESPN Soccernet, Milan have said Kaka is not for sale.

Really? Why not? There is no player in the world actually worth such an astronomical sum of money, so why not consider such a bid, if it has indeed been made?

On Wednesday, Milan signed Kaka's compatriot, Ronaldinho from Barcelona for a reported £16.7 million. Kaka is a younger player, an in-form player, I would say a better player than Ronaldinho. Is he almost five times the player that Ronaldinho is? No, of course not.

That Chelsea are willing to wildly overpay for a player is not new, nor is it really my issue. Roman Abramovich's piggy bank has been broken open for quite a while and the bottom of the pile is nowhere in sight.

But who are Milan to turn down such a sum? Based on various transfer fees being bandied about at the moment, Milan could take their new found Russian oil money kindly granted to them by Chelsea and purchase Arsenal's Emanuel Adebayor, Liverpool's Xabi Alonso and Chelsea's Frank Lampard, with change to spare. And those are just players being discussed at the moment.

As I discussed yesterday, AC Milan have problems which need to be addressed. Signing Ronaldinho will help, but the funds from the potential sale of Kaka would allow a more complete makeover that would surely see Milan back in the top four sooner rather than later.

In sport, money talks. If I was in charge at Milan, I'd take the money, because an offer as wild as this won't come along again.