Ronaldo to Real Madrid

[SK]

Benzema and Valencia I reckon if ladyboy goes

i'm not sure if benzema will leave lyon just yet. in contrast to other players lyon sold, for a lot of profit over the years, he's actually home-grown, and i think is touted to be their captain and symbol like stevie is at liverpool.

[red g]

i'm not sure if benzema will leave lyon just yet. in contrast to other players lyon sold, for a lot of profit over the years, he's actually home-grown, and i think is touted to be their captain and symbol like stevie is at liverpool.

Benzema has said himself he is ahppy at lyon but would be happy to move if someone came in and offered silly money and with 70 odd million burning a hole in slurs pocket dont think he will be shy to offer big monies

[Shaggy]

Real Madrid send doctor to check on Cristiano Ronaldo as Perez caves in on £75m fee to sign Manchester United star

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1192045/Real-Madrid-send-doctor-check-Cristiano-Ronaldo-Perez-caves-75m-fee-sign-Manchester-United-star.html

Real Madrid have agreed to pay a world record fee to sign Cristiano Ronaldo and have dispatched a doctor to examine his hernia problem.

Widespread reports in Spain say the club's new president Florentino Perez has sanctioned a deal that will dwarf the £56m paid to AC Milan for Kaka.

It has long been said that there is a pre-contract agreement to sign Manchester United star Ronaldo - understood by Sportsmail to be set at £75m.

The contract, which United have previously denied the existence of, would have to be executed before June 30, with Madrid paying a £26m penalty if they broke the terms.

Perez's predecessor Ramon Calderon has persistently hinted that Ronaldo will arrive at the Bernabeu because of work he had already done on the deal last summer.

Perez is understood to be unhappy at such a high fee and has reportedly been in talks with United chief executive David Gill over the last few days in an attempt to renegotiate the deal.

But the Barclays Premier League champions have refused to budge other than agreeing to take the payments spread over five years, leaving Perez to reluctantly sanction the transfer rather pay £26m and have no player.

Real general director Jorge Valdano has today claimed the club are already in negotiations with United over Ronaldo.

'I can't answer any questions about him," he told TVE. 'I can only talk about players who are on their way here, not about those we are in negotiations over. He is a great professional, he dedicates a very great deal of time to his work. He is a great footballer and a very good professional.

'According to the information we have managed to obtain, he is an excellent professional. You don't get the player's body he has, which is a footballing advertisement, without working a great deal.

'Another thing is that his reputation as an officially good-looking guy, and a social or advertising model, blurs his image a bit. He is a great footballer.'
Cristiano Ronaldo

Good in white: Cristiano Ronaldo lines up for Portugal in Albania at the weekend

El Mundo Deportivo says that a representative of the club and a doctor have been sent to meet the 24-year-old in Los Angeles, where he is recuperating after injury forced him out of the Portugal squad.
Franck Ribery

Up next? Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery

His prospective new employers want to examine the suspected hernia to see if it needs surgery, which may rule him out of the start of the season, but they could move quickly to finalise the deal if they are satisfied. He would receive about £200,000 a week on a similar deal to Kaka.

Reports in Portuguese newspaper A Bola say Ronaldo will not need surgery and that his pain is the natural result of a 59-match season.

While Calderon angered United boss Sir Alex Ferguson by courting Ronaldo in public, Perez has not met the same resistance despite constantly stating in interviews in recent days that he was determined to sign the Portugal international.

Perez, 62, is said to have a much better relationship wit the Old Trafford hierarchy, dating back to a time when he chaired the now disbanded G-14 collection of Europe's elite football clubs.

Bernabeu insiders insist the spending will not stop with a player they have spent two years chasing. There is an estimated £260m budget, with deals still in the offing for Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery, Liverpool's Xabi Alonso and plus Valencia trio David Villa, David Silva and Raul Albiol.

He has also spoken warmly of Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, though it appears the club's interest in Wigan winger Antonio Valencia - which predates Perez's appointment - may have cooled.

[Craig_H]

I'd love to see the little **** leave, but the thought of them having £75m to spend, i'm not so keen on.

[Guest]

£260m ****in' hell.

[Guest]

I'd love to see the little **** leave, but the thought of them having £75m to spend, i'm not so keen on.

They will be a match made in heaven.

[Craig_H]

Oh get over it.

I'd love it if we had that kind of budget.

[Guest]

Oh get over it.

I'd love it if we had that kind of budget.

I don't think it's good for the game. It'll end up distorting things and killing the competition.

[Craig_H]

I don't think it's good for the game. It'll end up distorting things and killing the competition.

Same thing has been happening for generations, just with slightly different proportions.

Like i said, get over it.

[red g]

I'd love to see the little **** leave, but the thought of them having £75m to spend, i'm not so keen on.

75m to replace Tevez and Ronaldo, no easy feat

[Guest]

Same thing has been happening for generations, just with slightly different proportions.

Like i said, get over it.

We never had more money than Man Utd. They still kept buying stellar players in the days but they all turned out to be flops because they didn't have the proper coaching or management structure.

It'll be the same at Real Madrid IMO, as it's something which won't be sustainable in the long run. You can't keep on buying players for that sort of money, it's going to hamper on the development of young players.

How much money do they have to generate long term for that business model to be successful. Those players will need to be replaced and they'll be back to square one.

[Craig_H]

We were outspending them throughout the 80s.

[Guest]

75m to replace Tevez and Ronaldo, no easy feat

And basically players like that don't grow on trees. It's not all about money. Sure it will make them a tidy profit, but at the end of the day they are weakening their team. I'm sure Manc supporters must be going crazy right now, losing Tevez now Cocknaldo.

[Guest]

We were outspending them throughout the 80s.

Give me the statistics I'm not sure about that.

I can remember they signed big money players too, Ray Wilkins, Brian McClair, Bryan Robson, Roy Keane ....

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We were outspending them throughout the 80s.

marginally, if at all.

They are in a different league when it comes to buying individuals now