As a follower of football, if you'd told me last summer that Man City would be a hugely rich club that had signed Brazilian striker Robinho and had put in a massive bid for midfield Kaka, I'd have had you sent away. I guess much can change in less than a year on the blue side of Manchester.

Owner Dr. Sulaiman Al-Fahim, top of the rich list, has pumped his earnings into the club trying to bring them vast success. So far they're still in the bottom half of the table and considering their array of talent, they're hugely underachieving. It would seem they're quite a few years off becoming one of the 'top four' in the league. So what are the implications if this transfer had gone through?

Firstly it would have shown just how far football has come as a business, with as much money being spent on a player as there is on some of the banks. Whether this is a good or bad point is up to you, but I think I sway towards the "why should they get paid so much to kick a ball around" argument. So thank you Sky and ITV and Setanta sports for pouring your money into football clubs through television rights!

Another point to make is the increasing value of other players and Man City's influence. Every club that has a player who Man City are looking to buy will now want much more than they'd be asking from any other club, purely to milk the deal until it's dry.

Finally and what I think epitomises the whole debate is the attempt to sway an evangelical christian towards a greed motivated move. Kaka often wearing shirts saying "I belong to Jesus" would be dropping all the values that his religion brings in order to complete the move. If it had gone through, money driven greed would have succeeded but it would have been hugely beneficiary to Milan in financial terms. As it happens, he claims to have 'rejected' the move and he appears loyal and faultless, yet was never confident on coming out and saying this during Man City's attempts to sign him, only in the aftermath. The severity of this saga can be summed up by Kaka's father and the Italian prime minister meeting with the leading members of Man City and AC Milan. This proves the argument isn't just a footballing issue, it's one of political and economic concern.