The Silly Season and Kaka

I’ve been talking about the “silly season” for so long now it seems I’m doing my own impersonation of a broken record. But when the silliness takes on the proportions of the Dallas office’s “defense” budget, well even we in Dallas have to take notice. Rumors are coming out of Milan that Kaka has agreed in principle to terms with Real Madrid. Yet the player himself seems to be less then enthusiastic. All I can say is Florentino Perez is either a madman, a genius, or is destined to serious jail time in a number of maximum security prisons in Spain. The numbers being discussed on players from Kaka to Ribery to Alonso and whoever may claim to be unhappy tomorrow signals a war chest usually reserved for small Central American military dictatorships. The real entertainment this summer may not be World Cup qualifiers but the antics of Perez and Madrid. Oh and here’s the obligatory Cristiano Ronaldo reference made by Perez.

Update: Now Chelsea are trying to horn in on the Kaka race by offering 73 million pounds. Pounds not dollars. In dollars that comes out to over 118 million US. Wow.