Pato only has eyes for Milan Sunday 29 July, 2007
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Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid have targeted Alexandre Pato, but the young Brazilian says he only has eyes for “fantastic” Milan.
The Under-20 sensation is lighting up the transfer market and has already been labelled the new Kaka at the age of 17.
“Milan are flying over to Brazil to sign me? That is fantastic,” he told Spanish newspaper ‘As’ and several Brazilian media.
“I won’t be meeting with their emissaries unless Internacional and my agent Gilmar Veloz give me the go ahead. All I can do is wait and hope.”
It’s reported that on Monday consultant Leonardo will fly to Porto Alegre for negotiations with his club Internacional.
This weekend Coach Carlo Ancelotti stated that Pato would most likely arrive in January, as by that stage he would have turned 18.
The offer Milan have prepared is said to be in the region of £14m to beat competition from rivals Inter, Chelsea and Real Madrid.
It would be a similar scenario to the capture of Kaka in 2003, when Leonardo also acted as their representative to broker the deal.
In fact, Kaka’s presence is an important factor for Pato, as his family is very religious and wants to ensure there is a positive role model when he flies to Europe alone.
Pato will be given a five-year contract starting out at £800,000 per season, rising to £1.3m by 2011-12.
FANTASTIC NEWS!!!

This guy is very exciting this could be the start of soemthing special, now only if we can get Barzagli.