Real Madrid will let Cristiano Ronaldo
leave this summer — but only if he joins Paris Saint-Germain 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 deliberate past tense at the end of Saturday’s final.
Cristiano Ronaldo has hinted he may leave Real Madrid this summer... could it be to PSG?
The Portuguese seemed in better spirits
during Madrid’s celebrations at the Bernabeu on Sunday — replying ‘See
you next year’ to the fans chanting his name — but Ronaldo intends to
make an announcement this week regarding his future.
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 buy-out
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.
Real Madrid want Neymar, and they would only be willing to let Ronaldo leave if they get him
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).
PSG may be willing, but Ronaldo is thought to want a big contract amid a tax investigation
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