Cristiano Ronaldo closer than ever to leave Real Madrid for Juventus

Cristiano Ronaldo is closer than ever to leaving Real Madrid. This time, it is. This is not a mere speculation for an umpteenth contract. It's not anger anymore. It's no longer a tactic. Cristiano is determined to leave the club with which he has won four Champions League and four Golden Balls in the past nine seasons. So much so that the first pawns for his departure have already been advanced and to date, it does not seem that they are the last, according to the information of Goal . At the moment T, anything can happen. Juventus is waiting for the Portuguese with open arms, and the bases for the transfer have already been laid.

a month ago, Real Madrid perceived Ronaldo's statements in Kiev as inappropriate and irrelevant, but for the first time in nine years, the club openly evokes a departure from Cristiano in the present, and more conditional. It's been months since a pact with Ronaldo to ease his departure to the summer was spent. The name of the star has been linked to many clubs, PSG Barcelona (as revealed in the newspaper OK), but now is the time to sit at the negotiating table. And there is no more bluff.

According to our information, Juventus is " optimistic " on how the operation is developing so far and hopes to settle the case 100 -120 million euros, taking advantage of the agreement between the player and his management. It has already obtained the agreement of CR7, which has accepted a four-year contract at the rate of thirty million euros per year. This would project Ronaldo's adventure in Turin until 2022, when the player is already 37 years old, and will receive an even higher salary than he currently receives at Real Madrid. What seemed like a chimera a few days ago has become a reality.

You should know that Cristiano, in one way or another, has always had Juventus in mind. Already because it is a club that offers him the opportunity to play in a champion team, to qualify for the Champions League and win a new national title in a third European country, after England and Spain. But also and above all because it is a club that showed him the love and gratitude he was looking for in Madrid. The sincere and spontaneous ovation he received after his exceptional acroabatic chisel at Juventus Stadium really moved him. And as he recognized on Real Madrid TV the same day, Cristiano has been following Juventus from a very young age. The Piedmontese club already wanted to recruit him when he was still playing Sporting Portugal in 2002. He had even gone to Turin, but the transfer failed at the last moment because Marcelo Salas had decided not to go the other way. Despite this outcome, Cristiano Ronaldo has always wanted Juventus. Fate offers him the opportunity to seize this opportunity again. And this decision is not a whim.

WHY LEAVE THE REAL MADRID?

To recontextualize things and seize everything, we must go back to the origin of the "Ronaldo affair". Last summer, when the prosecutor's office accused the Portuguese of tax evasion, the Portuguese newspaper A Bola dropped a few days later in a letter that Cristiano wanted to leave Spain because he does not feel wanted there. He does not feel well enough treated. In the background, this affair has caused a real disenchantment in the mind of a player who wishes to be exemplary with the Spanish courts on the one hand, as Goal includes, and secondly Ronaldo felt a sense of vulnerability with the club during the tax investigation. Moreover, Florentino Perez had promised Ronaldo a revaluation of his contract after the coronation of a twelfth Champions League for Real Madrid in Cardiff. Revalorization that never came into existence, but since the summer, Neymar and Messi have been pushing the limits with their respective new wages.

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Sporitively, the beginning Season was not good for Cristiano either. He is expelled at the Clasico of the Spanish Supercup and suspended four matches. This takes him away from the team's athletic goals, and leaves him feeling helpless about what he sees as an injustice. And when he returns to the field of play, with a Real Madrid already in free fall, he does not show his best version either. On the contrary. Meanwhile, after rumors of great interest in Kylian Mbappé during the summer, it is the name of Neymar that emerges insistently after the transfer of the Brazilian superstar to PSG. Nobody hides it inside the club, actually. The winks to the Brazilian are multiplying, and even Florentino Perez takes advantage of his presence in Paris to publicly revive his desire … during the ceremony of the Ballon d'Or for Ronaldo. Combined with the saw-tooth performance of the Portuguese, the debate becomes inevitable, in Spain: should Cristiano be exchanged for Neymar? This situation greatly disrupted number 7, according to information Goal because it does not correspond to his status as top scorer of Real Madrid, and even less to that of a five-fold Golden Ball. 19659003] In the relationship between the attacker and his leadership, this moment may have been the worst of all. However, after the conquest of the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, it was Cristiano himself who questioned his future in Madrid, in a scene very similar to that of Kiev a month ago. "I would like to retire at Real Madrid, but the extension does not depend on me" he also said surprisingly, just after the fifth title of the club in 2017. The relationship between the two parties is still refreshed. Rumors continued to blossom in the press, and as no denials have ever been made by Perez about Neymar, the supposed interest of Manchester United has become an alibi for the Portuguese.

There was the best in 2018, especially thanks to the suddenly resurging form of the striker, who again marked the spirits – and scored quite a lot – to take Real Madrid to Kiev. This calmed the game for all parties. A relationship of greater proximity then resumed, with collaboration at different levels, according to our information. In the entourage of the club, serenity was in order, and the resumption of negotiations for this famous extension was also in the air. The pharaonic departure clauses fed the press again, and Real Madrid ended its season in this context. Until his new coronation in the Champions League. And the statements that followed … Nobody imagined it at that time, but Cristiano Ronaldo was very serious.