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Real Madrid and Manchester United agree on Cristiano Ronaldo deal

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Real Madrid and Manchester United agree on Cristiano Ronaldo deal

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Real Madrid and Manchester United finally signed an agreement on the transfer of Christian Ronaldo, a statement on Real Madrid’s website said on June 26 2009.
 
The deal will take effect on July 1 2009.

On July 6 2009 Ronaldo will be presented to Real’s fans at the club stadium Santiago Bernabeu where he will play for the next six years.
 
The price of the transfer was announced to be a record transfer sum of 80 million pounds sterling (93.88 million euro). Manchester United bought Ronaldo in 2003 from Sporting Lisbon for 12.2 million pounds sterling.
 
According to the BBC, Ronaldo would earn about 11 million pounds (12.9 million euro) a year at Real, which would make him the highest paid footballer in the world. He was on about 6.38 million pounds sterling (7.49 million euro) at Manchester United.
 
At Real, Ronaldo will join Brazil playmaker Kaka who signed with Real several weeks earlier for the then-world-record 56 million pounds sterling (65.7 million euro) ending his stay with Italian AC Milan.
 
Both players, by many considered the two best players in the world, are part of an ambitious project of newly elected Real Madrid president Florentino Perez. Perez has so far spent a total of 148 million pounds sterling on new players, including Raul Albiol who came from Valencia for the sum of 12 million pounds sterling (14 million euro).
 
Allegedly Perez was in negotiations with several clubs to buy a number of European football stars, including Liverpool's Xabi Alonso, Valencia's David Villa and Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery, the BBC said.

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Anonymous Ciristiano Mirzabek Thu, Mar 18 2010 16:04 CET

Ronaldo super

Anonymous Jake Thu, Jul 02 2009 18:56 CET

He is a great, quality player but he can be weird at times, he said on Sky Sports News, ''I love it when my rformar club fans start 2 hate me''!

I like wtf

Anonymous=./Sun, Jun 28 2009 04:37 CET

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Anonymous nayay Sun, Jun 28 2009 00:37 CET

ronaldo u are best player in engla and u made your name in old trafford,man u is big tiam and respect u all the time and all the people like u in man u,so y u going to madrid?

Anonymousreal madridSat, Jun 27 2009 19:44 CET

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Anonymous ronaldo Sat, Jun 27 2009 18:59 CET

good luck in real madrid you are the best player after messi!!!!!!

Anonymous ### Sat, Jun 27 2009 15:06 CET

Ronaldo i will always love you!!!

Anonymous ******* Sat, Jun 27 2009 15:04 CET

RONALDO y did u go to real madrid
y? u hv made me upset...anyway gud luck there!

AnonymousKASTRIOT MEMETISat, Jun 27 2009 14:22 CET

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AnonymouskastrianoSat, Jun 27 2009 14:20 CET

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