Monopoly money

At what point does the football transfer market become obscene? Was it when Alan Shearer was 'bought' by Newcastle for £15m? Or when Roman Abramovitch started the trend for real life fantasy football?
I'm talking, of course, about the (reported) £107m offer by Man City to AC Milan for Kaka.

Just to put this into perspective here is a list of things you can buy for £107m:

107,000,000 lottery tickets
8,200,000 Pizzas
71,300 60" plasma TVs
114 Bugatti Veyrons
82 x 6-bedroom houses in Uxbridge

Also the island of Anguilla in the Leeward Islands has a GDP of £109m. So AC Milan will recieve the equivalent of the output of approx. 13,000 people.

The thing is, once you get into the millions of pounds any figure is beyond any real sense - it just becomes numbers. Nonsensical figures on a piece of paper. Monopoly money.

When Liverpool won the Champions League they earned £28.6m in prize money
So in order for Man city to get that money back the would need to win the next 3 Champions leagues back-to-back. Tough job for a team in 15th place at the moment.
So no pressure then Kaka.....