According to Portuguese outlet ‘Record’, Juventus will seal a deal with Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo within the day.
“The business isn’t concluded, but the rapprochement between the two parties will be a reality in the next few hours,” states the report from ‘Record’. Ronaldo will seal a €30m-per-year contract that will keep him at Juventus until 2022.
The path was cleared for the deal yesterday, when Real Madrid president Florentino Perez met with Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, for urgent talks over the issue.
The meeting “went on until dawn” before a categorical conclusion was drawn, according to the Portuguese outlet. “Ronaldo definitively closed the door on Real Madrid,” they claim
Thus, the Spanish side will reportedly let the forward leave for €100m. Ronaldo apparently has a clause that lets him leave if a club that isn’t a direct rival pays this sum.
It was precisely this clause, created a few months ago, that prompted Ronaldo to consider leaving the club, according to ‘Record’ and ‘Marca’, who led with the headline ‘If I am worth 100 million, they now don’t want me’.
The agreement with Juve reportedly will see Fiat, who own the club, become one of Cristiano’s sponsors, in order to lighten the financial burden of the deal.