Rome - AC Milan appear to have given up on Brazil star Kaka and are now talking openly of the financial advantages they can be gained from his transfer to Real Madrid. "The motivations behind Kaka's departure are only economic," Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani on Thursday told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"The heart (counts, but) we are talking about transfers. Even a big heart must get real and do some reckoning. Still, we are not dismantling (the team). The other big players are not for sale. Now a big striker is arriving."
As Spanish media consider the transfer imminent, at a transfer fee of 65 million euros (92 million dollars), Milan owner and Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said that no decision has been taken.
"I'm engaged in the (European) election campaign (until Sunday)," Berlusconi said, "and I asked Kaka and Galliani not to take any decision before we have a chance to have dinner together and I think I'll invite him on Monday."
Late Wednesday, however, Berlusconi said on a television show that the 27-year-old will make the final decision.
"It's always the boys who choose their future," Berlusconi said. "(They) must choose how to continue their career."
A group of Milan fans Wednesday criticized Kaka's sale outside the club's headquarters where during the night someone wrote on the wall "Milan is ours."
"Kaka makes you win the games. It's sad that he goes away," veteran midfielder Gennaro Gattuso said. "There are talks of crisis and the club has decided to put him on the market. Kaka is a champion, not someone who has just arrived."
