Cristiano Ronaldo, the most expensive signature of the history of Italian football

Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo has become today the most expensive signature of the history of the Italian league to reach Juventus in Turin with an operation of about 105 million Euro, surpbading Argentina's Gonzalo Higuaín record

After scoring history and having won everything during the nine seasons spent at Real Madrid, Ronaldo has added a new record to his career, because a 33-year-old footballer had never been paid so much.

Portuguese, who signed for Madrid nine years ago with Manchester United for 94 million euros, arrives in Turin (north) as a living legend of football and will be the undisputed leader of the new course of Juventus .

No team in history Ronaldo snatched the previous record from one of his new teammates, Higuaín

. Juventus of the Napoli historical rival in the summer of 2016 after the Turinese agreed to pay the cancellation clause of 90 million euros.

The Argentine arrived in Turin after having the best season of his career in Naples, when he scored 36 goals and improved the score of Swede Gunnar Nordahl, who in 1950 had been the top scorer in Serie A with 35 goals.

Higuaín came down on the second step of the podium which is completed by another Argentinian, Hernán Crespo

The former striker, champion of Europe in Milan in 2007, signed for Lazio at the the 2000-01 season in Parma in exchange for 110 billion Italian lire, the equivalent of 55 million euros.

The arrival of Ronaldo, for whom shirt number 7 is ready, also left behind the transfer of players such as goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon or Spanish midfielder Gaizka Mendieta

. But the Paris Saint Germain was 23, in 2001 he was paid 54.2 million euros by Juventus to snatch him from Parma.

For his part, Mendieta left Valencia in 2001 to sign with Lazio in exchange for 48 million euros; the Bilbao midfielder is now the fifth most expensive signature in the history of Italian football

The ranking of the ten most expensive transfers of Calcio is completed by Christian Vieri (Lazio-Inter, 45 million), Portugal's Manuel Rui Costa (Fiorentina-Milan, 42), France's Lilian Thuram (Parma-Juventus, 41.5), Czech Pavel Nedved (Lazio-Juventus, 41.2) and Filippo Inzaghi (Juventus-Milan, 37) .

These records have been improved by Ronaldo, who faces his new experience at Juventus as a brilliant new challenge in his career.

After winning five Champions League titles and winning league titles with Manchester United in England and Madrid in Spain, the Portuguese want to expand its legend in the Italian league.

Cristiano has the challenge of extending the national dominance of Juventus, seven-time champion of Italy, and, above all, leading him to a triumph in the European Cup

This would be the sixth Personal crown for Luso and the third in the history of Juventus, which does not raise the "Orejona" since 1996. EFE