Season Diary 47

Entry #47: Monday 18th January 2009

Today Kaka turned down a move to Manchester City and frankly thank god. Let me put this into some sort of perspective. The wages that were reported, regardless of whether they were correct or not, were in the region of five hundred thousand pounds a week. half a million pound every week in a wee brown pay poke. Forgive me if i miss out my customary exclamation marks (which i do covet) when discussing this because as much as it shocks me, it is more sheer revulsion than anything else. In this time of a recession the fact that this is actually accepted makes the mind boggle.

the perspective? Killie havent paid five hundred thousand pounds in transfer fees for any one player in their history. It is frankly scary that we are playing the same game under the same rules set down by the governing bodies like UEFA and FIFA, scary.

In fact a while ago, a few seasons maybe, i wrote a piece for the Killie Hippo fanzine highlighting the gulf in money and how that money is ruining football, when West Hams new Icelandic owners (oh the irony) were throwing about mega money about paying 5.5million fines like it was pocket change due to transfer discrepancies in their buying of Tevez and Mascherano (oh the irony again as the Hammers seem in the shite a wee bit as that transfer debacle still rumbles on) i attended a Sportsmans Dinner for the Killie Trust which was raising money to keep afloat the Kilmarnock Youth system, a youth system which will provide most of our players one would assume in these credit crunch days. That fundraiser raised something like six thousand pounds and i highlighted the major differences and how there is a seeming lack of justice in this football world.

Today just shows that, despite the signing not going through, the gulf which i spoke of merely a few years ago has been blown even wider. Its obscene.