The dream has died

We’re fresh back from a sojourn in the West Country today my lovely, so catching up on all the latest as Manchester City, the self-styled (and aren’t those words always written with malicious glee?) richest club in the world have gone from 100m wonders to Woolworth’s rejects in just under 24 hours.

So the dream has died and Kaka will not be gracing the Premiership. A shame really, but on the probability scale it ranks alongside Fergie admitting he was wrong, Andy Murray winning gracefully and Ferrari being penalised in an F1 championship, in the big bad list of things that are never likely to happen.

But what of the latest trouble at t’Middle Eastlands? Robinho’s alleged hissy fit and immediate retreat to spend more time with his family – what was that all about?

“Nothing to do with Kaka’ says Robinho, ‘Everything to do with Bellamy’ says the Spurt as we exclusive tipped on Monday (well sort of).

Seems the Milanese playmaker isn’t the only Brazilian fearing a midnight visit from the nine-iron wielding Welshman.

In the Kaka...

It’s Wednesday, a quiet day in the spurting galaxy and with no shocks in last night’s FA cup, precious few in prospect tonight and even Gazza behaving himself for once, we raise our eyes to the heavens and implore the spurting gods ‘FFS give us something to work with here’.

Fortunately salvation comes in the form of the transfer merry-go-round and the quite-simply-staggering prospect of Brazilian genius Kaka moving to Man City for the bargain price of 100m Euro or Quid, with wages of around 500k a week.

We’re as divided as a pair of post-op co-joined twins. As well as having a vaguely amusing name (if you’re American and like scatological references) Kaka’s a bone fide genius and we’d absolutely love to see him play over here.

Yet that’s over double Zidane’s record breaking price and surely some kind of sanity must prevail? If City managed to pull this off we’ll have to invent a new term for nouveau riche. Mucho riche anyone?

Kind of puts the whole Roque Santa Cruz saga into perspective too.

Perhaps sanity will prevail though as Kaka’s agent Diogo Kotscho as well as slipping in a sly dig in at fellow Brazilian, told Corriere dello Sport "He [Kaka] would never do something like Robinho, who, just to earn more, contented himself with a solution that was not a winning one."

We’re also starting our shameless ‘come and get me plea’ award of the day which has to go to Newcastle’s moody Frenchy Charles N’Zogbia who told a French sports daily. “The club want to sell some players, so why not me? Lyon, make a move!"

Classy Charles, very classy.