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

The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo has become today the most expensive signature of the history of the Italian league when he arrived at the Juventus of Turin with an operation of about 105 million euros, surpbading the record of Argentine Gonzalo Higuain.

After scoring history and winning everything over the past nine seasons at Real Madrid, Ronaldo added a new record to his career, as a 33-year-old football player had never been paid as much.

The Portuguese, who nine years ago signed Madrid to 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 the history of Serie A (First Division) had made such an expensive signing and Ronaldo snatched the previous record precisely one of his new teammates, Higuain.

The "Pipita" came to the Juventus of Napoli's historic rival in the summer of 2016 after the Turinese agreed to pay the cancellation clause of 90 million euros.

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

Higuain came down on the second step of a podium that is completed by another Argentinian, Hernán Crespo. 19659004] The former striker, champion of Europe in Milan in 2007, signed for Lazio during the 2000-01 academic year in Parma in exchange for 110 billion Italian lira, l 39; equivalent of 55 million euros.

The arrival of Ronaldo, for which the jersey number 7 is ready, also left behind the transfers of players like goaltender Gianluigi Buffon or Spanish midfielder Gaizka Mendieta.

When the current Paris Saint Germain goalkeeper was 23, in 2001 he was paid 54.2 million euros by Juventus to snatch him out of Parma.

For its 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