£350M
If you want Ronaldo this is how much it will cost say Real Madrid
CRISTIANO RONALDO’S chances of a Premier League return seem doomed after Real Madrid effectively slapped an eye-watering £ 350 million price tag on their superstar.
Ronaldo is unhappy at the Bernabeu, where he earns £350,000 a week, but Real have all but priced him out of a European move, even to the mega-rich Premier League.
His former club Manchester United and French giants Paris Saint-Germain appeared to have been the only realistic buyers of the 32- year- old four- time world footballer of the year. But that was before Real’s latest price warning — which could also frighten off any interest from China.
The Portuguese striker signed a new five-year deal with the Champions League winners only last November, a contract extension which means his actual buy-out clause is valued at just under £900m.
However, a Spanish newspaper with the closest ties to the Madrid giants, Marca, is reporting that it would take actually take an offer of £350m for them to consider letting him go. Ronaldo’s advisers have already made it clear the four-time Champions League winner does not want to go to China and it now looks like he has been priced out of a move back to Manchester.
United had tried to buy him back in 2013 and the club’s executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward has been desperate to sign box-office names, which contributed to their £100m pursuit of Paul Pogba last season.
Real Madrid have reacted calmly to the briefing from his advisors that their star player, currently playing for Portugal in the Confederations Cup in Russia, wants to leave and that his decision is ‘irreversible’.