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I'm sure not many City fans will agree with me on this, but when I watch this sort of thing it almost makes me pleased that we didn't sign him. Kaká is such an icon, such a hero to football fans everywhere that to strip him of his Rossoneri shirt in exchange for £90million may not have quite felt right.

And there's also a fear that playing for City would, in a way, ruin Kaká for me. I mean, I can see it now: he'd put a pass just beyond the reach of Caicedo, he'd fail to score a hat-trick at Old Trafford, he wouldn't win games for us single handedly and you'd hear someone the row behind you shouting '£90million? You're shite Kaká, you're worse than Claudio fucking Reyna.' And it would never quite be the same again.

Iniesta?

This News of the World exclusive is surely rubbish:

The Barcelona midfielder is thought to be untouchable at the Nou Camp but City's billionaire Arab owners fancy their chances of bringing him to Eastlands...

That means City will have to smash their £32million transfer record to persuade the Catalan club to allow the Spain international to talk terms.

Really? I struggle to believe this at all. I can see no reason whatsoever why Iniesta would want to leave Barcelona for City, other than the most vulgar one. He's currently playing in a starring role in a groundbreaking Barcelona season, and whatever they win this year they will surely be in the hunt for the same trophies again in 2009/10. Asking the 24 year old cantera graduate to leave the side he has grown up playing for - it just couldn't work. Didn't we learn with Kaká that it's worth discriminating between those targets who are likely to take our money and those who are not?