Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger
feels Manchester City's reportedly extravagant move for AC Milan's
Kaka would implicate a 'disturbance' on the transfer
market.
Talk of City's approach for the Brazilian star has dominated the
headlines since it emerged that a club delegation met with Milan on
Tuesday regarding their interest.
It has been speculated that the Abu Dhabi-owned club could pay
in the region of £100million for the playmaker, who will reportedly
be offered a staggering £500,000 a week.
Wenger, who is known for his shrewd style in the transfer
market, admits that City, just like Chelsea in the past, now
operate outside the normal parameters.
"It does not look real to me at all. It is like an abstraction,"
said Wenger.
"It does not look in connection with today's world because on
one side we have the economic situation which is quite worrying and
for me this is abstraction.
"We live in a football club who lives in the real world. That
means we spend the money we make from our income.
"The implications would be disturbance on the market, an
inflationary trend in a deflationary world.
"We are in a world where we live from three kinds of income -
gate receipts, the sponsors and the television money. That is the
real world of football.
"The rest is exceptional and is not the rule of our world. It is
a special income with unlimited resources, but it is not the real
world.
"Whether it is us, Sunderland or Coventry we live with the same
rules. Manchester City are in a different world because they do not
live with their income."