Black Widow
12-18-2008, 11:44 AM
REAL MADRID claim to have struck a sensational secret agreement to buy Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
Bernabeu director Pedro Trapote has alleged that the transfer of the European Footballer of the Year is already agreed but clauses in the arrangement prevent the news being made official.
Spanish daily El Mundo reported Trapote told a confidante of the deal after Real’s 2-0 defeat against Barcelona last weekend.
The newspaper claimed Ronaldo agreed to stay at United this season only provided they let him go next summer.
Trapote was reported as saying to a friend: “If you are asking me what we are going to do now then I would tell you that we have already signed the best player for the summer.”
The friend replied: “Are you talking about Cristiano?”
Trapote responded: “The best of the best. It is Cristiano, there is no other.
“It is best to not say anything because there are some clauses that prevent us from announcing it now. For us it would be a good time, but we should not do that. But it is not bad, eh?”
United boss Alex Ferguson and chief executive David Gill have always maintained there is no deal.
And Real president Ramon Calderon recently insisted he wanted cordial relations with Old Trafford and that he respected Ronaldo was a United player.
The Sun
Bernabeu director Pedro Trapote has alleged that the transfer of the European Footballer of the Year is already agreed but clauses in the arrangement prevent the news being made official.
Spanish daily El Mundo reported Trapote told a confidante of the deal after Real’s 2-0 defeat against Barcelona last weekend.
The newspaper claimed Ronaldo agreed to stay at United this season only provided they let him go next summer.
Trapote was reported as saying to a friend: “If you are asking me what we are going to do now then I would tell you that we have already signed the best player for the summer.”
The friend replied: “Are you talking about Cristiano?”
Trapote responded: “The best of the best. It is Cristiano, there is no other.
“It is best to not say anything because there are some clauses that prevent us from announcing it now. For us it would be a good time, but we should not do that. But it is not bad, eh?”
United boss Alex Ferguson and chief executive David Gill have always maintained there is no deal.
And Real president Ramon Calderon recently insisted he wanted cordial relations with Old Trafford and that he respected Ronaldo was a United player.
The Sun