Wednesday 29 May 2013

CRISTIANO RONALDO TOLD: WE PAY, YOU STAY

ABOVE: New boss David Moyes and United target Cristiano Ronaldo
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He’s the best player in the world and I want him to be the best paid in the world
”
Florentino Perez
29th May 2013

By Jeremy Cross

REAL MADRID will make Cristiano Ronaldo the highest-paid star in the world to stop him making a sensational return to Manchester United.

United have spent the last six months working on a blockbuster deal to lure ­Ronaldo back to Old ­Trafford, as exclusively revealed in Starsport.

The Premier League ­champions are desperate to re-sign Ronaldo to boost their chances of winning ­the Champions League.

Billionaires Paris Saint-Germain are also keen on landing the Portuguese ­superstar.

But Florentino Perez, the president of Real, has no ­intention of selling Ronaldo and is ­willing to break the bank to keep him at the Bernabeu.

Perez is up for re-election at the Spanish giants next season and knows ­keeping the club’s prized asset would guarantee him being voted in again.

Now Perez is willing to sanction a mind-­boggling deal for ­Ronaldo worth close to £300,000 a week.

Perez said: “He’s the best player in the world and I want him to be the best paid in the world.

“We are going to do ­everything in our power to make him happy, to make sure he isn’t sad.

“He went through a rough patch and that’s that. After this, he’s been exceptional.

“Cristiano has been ­exemplary and has never had problems with anyone.”

Ronaldo joined Real from United in 2009 for a ­world-record fee of £80m.

He has gone on to score an incredible 146 goals in 135 games but claimed he was unhappy last season, which coincided with United ­making their move.

Meanwhile, it is understood new United boss David Moyes will block a move from Crystal Palace to take Wilfried Zaha back on a ­season-long loan deal.

United signed Zaha in a £15m deal in January but immediately let Palace have him back.

He has helped fire them into the top flight and ­Palace bosses want to keep him for another 12 months.

But Moyes is keen to work with Zaha and mould him into a Premier League star, which means Palace’s cheeky ­request will be turned down.

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