Could it be PSG for Ronaldo?

REAL MADRID will let Cristiano Ronaldo leave this summer — but only if he joins Paris SaintGermain with Neymar moving in the opposite direction. The Spanish club are unhappy at the way Ronaldo hijacked the Champions League celebrations, swinging the spotlight away from match-winner Gareth Bale. ‘It was nice playing for Real Madrid,’ Ronaldo said in very deliberate past tense at the end of Saturday’s final. He then said he would make an announcement this week regarding his future. He gave more interviews as his team-mates celebrated. ‘Perhaps I should not have said what I said but I cannot be sure that next year I will still be at the club. I will talk in the next few days,’ he added. President Florentino Perez was asked about Ronaldo in his first post-match interview: ‘Ronaldo has five Champions Leagues just like me,’ he said before branding the reporter a ‘nuisance’. ‘There is always this sort of talk and in the end nothing ever happens,’ Perez added. Ronaldo is contracted to Real until 2021, but PSG could break the impasse because they have what Madrid most want in the Brazilian. But PSG believe they can keep Neymar for one more year. He has a buyout clause of €222million that kicks in at the end of next season when Madrid will still be first in line to take him — and Ronaldo would be ideally placed to replace him, even aged 34. But if he tries to force his way out of Madrid this summer, PSG will be offered the chance to bring that exchange forward. Ronaldo wants his new deal — one that he says he was promised last summer — to make him the world’s highest paid player again, and to help him shoulder the financial burden of his tax case. Ronaldo has the cloud of an investigation into €14.7m in alleged undeclared income over his head. Lionel Messi earns around €35m (£30.7m) net a season at Barcelona, with Ronaldo earning closer to €25m (£22m).