Juventus have signed Cristiano Ronaldo for £88million, with Real Madrid announcing on Tuesday that they have agreed a deal with the Serie A champions.Relive the day’s huge news with Sportsmail’s live blog to stay updated with Ronaldo’s move to Italy as it nears its conclusion.Sportsmail’s ROBERT SUMMERSCALES and MATTHEW SMITH made sure you stayed in the know when it comes to transfers across the Premier League and Europe.Juve will pay Real €100m – or £88m – as a straight up transfer fee. They also say they will pay an extra £10m for ‘the solidarity contribution provided for by the FIFA regulations and accessory charges’. Admin charges, essentially.
They will also match the wages Real were paying Ronaldo – £500,000-per-week.While there was success, Ronaldo also had, at times, a turbulent relationship with Real Madrid’s club hierarchy, particularly club president Florentino Perez.The first signs of an uneasy relationship emerged when he declared on the pitch in 2012, ‘I’m sad and the club know why’, and they reared their head again after the 4-1 win over Juventus in the 2017 Champions League final when newspaper A Bola said he had decided to leave.Ronaldo’s complaints, said to be centred around Real’s reluctance to hand him a pay rise and a perceived lack of support for him in his legal battle against the Spanish tax authorities, got little sympathy among fans or the Spanish media, however.
Their patience wore even thinner when he hogged the narrative after Real had beaten Liverpool in the 2018 Champions League final in Kiev by saying ‘it was beautiful to play for Real Madrid’ and re-aired his dissatisfaction with the club.It was an unedifying yet strangely fitting end to a glorious yet bumpy marriage between one of the sport’s greatest ever players and one of its most storied clubs.
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