The video will auto-play soon 8 Cancel Get the FREE Mirror Football newsletter by email with the day's key headlines and transfer news Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Juventus are ready to make a move to take Marcelo after signing Cristiano Ronaldo. The Italian champions completed the stunning £100m signing of Ronaldo on Tuesday after he agreed a four-year deal. And Sport Premium report Juve will now turn their attention to his teammate and close friend. Real have no plans to sell Marcelo but Juve believe Ronaldo can help turn his head and follow him out of the Bernabeu and to Turin. Juve will look to raise funds for the deal by selling Alex Sandro, with Manchester United and Chelsea remaining interested. Top stories from Wednesday's Daily Mirror Cristiano Ronaldo will be paid £510,483 per week by Juventus , which works out at £72,925 a day. Or £3,038 an hour. If you prefer, £50.64 a minute. Chelsea are ready to offload David Luiz as they close in on a £35million deal for fellow defender Daniele Rugani of Juventus . Carlo Ancelotti is ready to offer misfit defender Luiz a lifeline at Napoli - and is keen on West Ham's Italy international centre-back Angelo Ogbonna too. (Image: REUTERS) West Ham are ready to return with a fresh bid after seeing a £25million move for Newcastle's centre-back and captain Jamaal Lascelles rejected. Arsenal have completed the signing of French youngster Matteo Guendouzi. While it hasn't been announced by the club yet, video footage of the 19-year-old Lorient midfielder putting pen to paper has emerged. Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina is being targeted by Argentina's Boca Juniors. Transfer news from other sources Liverpool are considering a surprise move for former West Brom loanee Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sun) Peter Crouch is wanted by Australian A-league sides Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory (Sun)<doc-sep>VI-Images/Getty Images Juventus have completed the signing of Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo for a reported fee of £105 million. Real Madrid confirmed on Tuesday that they have agreed to sell the forward, with Sky Sports News reporting the fee that will be exchanged between the two sides. Juventus later announced the deal, noting Ronaldo signed a four-year contract with the club. Luke Edwards of the Telegraph reported Ronaldo's deal is worth "around £500,000-a-week." Ronaldo will seek to continue Juventus' streak of seven successive Scudetto triumphs in Serie A. BBC Sport reported in early July that Real were considering an £88 million bid Juve had submitted for the player, who arrived in Madrid from Manchester United for a then-world record £80 million in 2009. Ronaldo's position at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu had come into question after he suggested his time at the club was ending following their Champions League final win over Liverpool in May. As mentioned by BBC Sport, strained relations with president Florentino Perez are believed to have in part fueled his decision. Julen Lopetegui has taken over from the departed Zinedine Zidane as manager, and Ronaldo's exit signals a dramatic shift at the club and the beginning of a new era. At 33 years of age, Ronaldo's time at the top of the game could be limited, but his impact in recent years has increased rather than diminished with age. He has played a major role in the club's four UEFA Champions League wins in the past five years and won the European Championship with Portugal in 2016. Video Play Button Videos you might like Ronaldo has also clinched two La Liga trophies at Real, as well as three FIFA Club World Cups, two Copas del Rey, two UEFA Super Cups and two Spanish Super Cups. It was once thought that if Ronaldo were ever to leave Real, it would be for a return to Old Trafford, but instead, he heads to Juventus, who Real eliminated from the Champions League last season in the quarter-finals with a last-minute Ronaldo penalty. Ronaldo was also part of the team that beat the Bianconeri in the 2017 Champions League final, but he'll now look to take Juve—runners-up in two of the past four seasons—to continental glory.<doc-sep>Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid. That stunning statement, after years-long charades of speculation that invariably proved unfounded, became official Tuesday. Real Madrid confirmed that Ronaldo, a top-two player on the planet, will complete a lucrative transfer to Juventus. The Italian club later confirmed its capture of the Portuguese megastar, specifying a transfer fee of $117.5 million and additional payments of $14.1 million to Ronaldo’s previous clubs. Juve president Andrea Agnelli had traveled to Greece, where Ronaldo is vacationing, to finalize the four-year deal on Tuesday. The transfer fee puts Ronaldo among the 10 most expensive transfers ever for the second time. An exorbitant salary will bring him closer to, if not beyond, the wages of Lionel Messi and Neymar. Along with its confirmation, Real Madrid published a goodbye letter from Ronaldo. “I have only feeling of enormous gratitude for this club,” the 33-year-old said. “However, I believe that the time has come to open a new stage in my life, and therefore I have asked the club to accept transferring me.” Ronaldo departs Madrid on the back of a historic third consecutive Champions League title. He scored an astounding 450 goals and claimed 15 total trophies over nine seasons. He won four Ballon d’Or awards as the best player on the planet. But there are reasons his glittering tenure came to such an abrupt end. Cristiano Ronaldo won his fourth Champions League title in five years with Real Madrid this past May. (Getty) Why would Real Madrid sell Ronaldo? For Real Madrid, the breakup marks the commencement of a necessary rebuilding process. Though the 2017-18 team ascended to the top of Europe once again, fissures had begun to appear. More than half of the threepeat’s core is now over 30. Los Blancos finished 17 points behind Barcelona in La Liga, and benefited from plenty of good fortune in the Champions League knockout stages. With manager Zinedine Zidane stepping down and former Spanish national team coach Julen Lopetegui replacing him, this summer was the natural starting point. It was time for a refresh before the fissures became full-on cracks. Story continues [Bushnell: Winners and losers of Ronaldo’s move to Juve] That’s not to say Ronaldo couldn’t have been a part of the rebuild. At 33, he is still near the height of his powers. But according to reports, if he was going to be a part of it, he wanted another new contract and pay raise that would ensure he was a focal point. Real Madrid was unwilling to make those guarantees to a 33-year-old, and instead decided to part ways. Why did Ronaldo want to leave Real Madrid? Ronaldo had three years remaining on his Real contract. But it was reportedly a contract that paled in comparison to those of Messi and Neymar. Ronaldo seemingly wanted more money – either for the money itself, or as symbolic recognition of his worth, or as a sign of long-term commitment from the club, or some combination of the three. There will be speculation that Ronaldo was in search of a new challenge. Or, as he wrote in his letter, that he felt it was time for a new stage in his life. Or even that he was bored, having won four European titles in five years. And there might be some merit to that. But the principal factor at play here seems to be Ronaldo’s role at Real Madrid. A move now preempts the previously plausible scenario where Ronaldo fell out of favor with a manager (Lopetegui) who might preferred not to build around an aging striker. Lopetegui’s possession-based system, curated over years with Spain youth teams and the senior team, is unlike any Ronaldo has ever starred in. The two likely could have jelled. But there were no guarantees, especially if and when Ronaldo begins to decline. This isn’t about Lopetegui, though. Immediately after the Champions League final, Ronaldo was already speaking as if his time in Madrid had come to an end. “It has been very nice being at Real Madrid,” he said then. Ronaldo seemingly wanted assurances that he was at the center of Real Madrid’s plans for years to come. If he wasn’t, he’d find a club who could A) grant those assurances, and B) afford to pay him Neymar money. Juventus was either one of a few clubs who fit both criteria or the only one that did. How can Juventus afford Ronaldo? Based on reported figures, Ronaldo’s Juve deal will give the club’s current wage bill an approximately 40 percent spike. He’ll blow up its salary structure. Serie A, for various reasons, is the poorest of Europe’s top four leagues, and Juventus the poorest of the big five league champions. That’s why it had rarely been mentioned as a possible Ronaldo suitor. But Juve can do two things to bring Ronaldo aboard and still meet Financial Fair Play requirements. First, it can sell players to make room. Striker Gonzalo Higuain – for whom Juventus paid around $100 million two summers ago – is the most likely to be offloaded. Gianluigi Buffon has already left. Others will have to go as well. Second, however, is Ronaldo’s impact on Juventus’ revenue. Under FFP, its spending capabilities are a function of revenue. Ronaldo’s presence will make the club immeasurably more marketable. Mere rumors of Ronaldo’s transfer caused Juventus’ stock price to soar. There are reports that Fiat, the Italian automobile manufacturing company, will come aboard as a Ronaldo-specific sponsor to fund the deal. Ronaldo, in general, will make Juventus far more attractive to potential commercial partners. How does Ronaldo fit at Juventus? Ronaldo will presumably slot in for Higuain as a central striker, with Paulo Dybala behind him. He’ll be a more extreme version of what he had become at Real Madrid, a dynamic poacher whose primary and secondary responsibilities are both to score goals. Juve eked out a seventh consecutive Serie A title last season by adopting an embarrassingly conservative approach against fellow top teams.<doc-sep>In April, Real Madrid were clinging to a 1-0 lead against Juventus in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal tie. After an initial save from Gigi Buffon led to a penalty-box scramble, a seemingly mishit cross from Madrid fullback Dani Carvajal fluttered away from goal and toward the penalty spot. The play seemed dead, until Cristiano Ronaldo reminded everyone in the stadium that he’s still the one who decides which way the momentum is going: Suddenly faced with a 2-0 deficit at home, the Juventus fans didn’t know what else to do, so they just started clapping. There’s no tactic to account for that. There is no technique you can teach to your kids. It’s the kind of moment Ronaldo’s been producing for more than a decade now: one that doesn’t just exist outside the patterns of the game, but that breaks the whole thing in half. Three months and a reported €100 million later, those fans will have the opportunity to applaud him every other weekend and on some Tuesdays and Wednesdays, too. It’s going to take a while before this stops feeling weird to say, but: Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Juventus now. Basic team-building philosophy suggests that clubs should buy players right before they hit their prime, which is typically within the 24-to-29 age range. It also allows an opportunity to sell the player right before they decline, or agree to a new contract that takes their age into account. It’s an obvious rule of thumb, but one that gets ignored by the majority of clubs. Juventus, however, have become something like the Spurs or Patriots of the transfer market—exploiting inefficiencies in a world bloated with so much money that there’s rarely any room for nuance. While they’re only the 10th-richest club in the world, per Deloitte’s Money League, they’ve won seven Serie A titles in a row and have played in two of the past four Champions League finals. Their success is rooted in deals for players who were out of contract and didn’t require a transfer fee, undervalued players who were no longer wanted by slightly bigger clubs, or the best players from the other teams in Serie A. On Tuesday, they shattered the transfer record for a 33-year-old. The previous high mark was the £15.3 million Manchester City spent on keeper Claudio Bravo. The 2018 FIFA World Cup Check out all of The Ringer’s coverage Of course, Ronaldo isn’t just any 33-year-old. He’s perhaps the best 33-year-old soccer player we’ve ever seen. He’s averaged at least one goal and assist per 90 minutes in eight of the past nine domestic seasons. The only player with a stronger track record is Lionel Messi. Ronaldo’s production has dropped off from his peak, but how could it not? The guy scored 48 goals and added 16 assists in La Liga 2014-15. After some early-season concerns over his inability to find the back of the net, Ronaldo regressed to the mean as soon as the calendar flipped to 2018. In terms of expected-goals-plus-assists per 90 minutes, he trailed only Neymar and Messi last year. Over the years his role on the field has changed. He’s gone from marauding winger to paradigm-shattering hybrid attacker to the best pure striker on the planet. But he’s still one of the two best attackers alive. Ronaldo scored 26 goals in La Liga last season; no Juventus player has done that in Serie A in at least 20 years. The importance of signing the most popular athlete on the planet extends way beyond those goals. Ronaldo has essentially spent the past decade making the human-beings-are-corporations-too argument. He has sponsorship deals with pretty much everything, from a Japanese electronic muscle manipulator to an Egyptian steel company. Per a source who represents multiple European players, Juventus’s market cap has gone up €200 million in the past week—just based on the potential of Ronaldo coming to the club. The source also told me that if Juventus can successfully convert Ronaldo’s image into more revenue, the club could surpass Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea—three clubs ahead of it in the Deloitte rankings. Ronaldo’s going to make this team better right now, and he’s also going to make them richer right now and in the future. A well-run Juventus with even more money should be a scary thought for the rest of Europe. As for Real Madrid, well, we knew this was going to happen eventually. The biggest surprise is how smoothly it seems to have gone down. Rumors of a transfer—to Juve, PSG, or Manchester United—bubbled up a week or two ago, and now here we are. While the deal is a boon for Juve, it’s also a success from Madrid’s perspective. Getting £88.3 million for a 33-year-old is good business, no matter who he is. Replacing Ronaldo’s production won’t be easy, though. He took 6.95 shots per 90 minutes in La Liga last season. Next highest of the team’s regulars was Gareth Bale at 3.69, but he wasn’t a consistent starter. And, like Ronaldo, he made noises about leaving immediately after the Champions League victory over Liverpool. Despite winning an eye-watering three Champions League titles in a row, Real Madrid have been eerily quiet in the transfer market over the past three years. They haven’t bought any player for more than £45 million since James Rodríguez came over for approximately £70 million after the 2014 World Cup. That won’t continue! Zinedine Zidane is gone, replaced by disgraced ex-Spain manager Julen Lopetegui, and the second-richest club in the world now has an extra £88.3 million burning a hole in their pockets and a massive need atop their attack. The smokiest rumor so far seems to be surrounding Chelsea and Belgium star Eden Hazard. But Hazard’s most valuable skill is his ability to progress the ball up the field like a running back; he hasn’t scored more than 16 goals in a season for Chelsea, and he took just 2.63 shots per 90 last season.<doc-sep>
Cristiano Ronaldo is joining Juventus after the Italian club agreed a €100m (£88.3m) fee for the Portugal forward with Real Madrid. The 33-year-old is ready for a new challenge after nine years at Real and asked the La Liga club to let him go. The player and his agent, Jorge Mendes, met the Juventus chairman, Andrea Agnelli, in Greece on Tuesday to discuss the final details of the deal. Ronaldo is signing a four-year contract with an annual salary of around €30m. In Italy clubs have to pay the same amount in tax, which takes the total cost of the transfer to €340m (€100m transfer fee plus €240m in salary and taxes). “I only have feelings of enormous gratitude for this club and for this city,” Ronaldo wrote in an open letter to Real fans. “I have had nine absolutely wonderful years at the club. “Real Madrid has conquered my heart, and that of my family, and that is why more than ever I want to say thank you: thank you to the club, the president, the directors, my colleagues, all the staff, doctors, physios and incredible people that make everything work.” He finished his letter by saying: “Thanks to everyone and, of course, as I said that first time in our stadium nine years ago: Hala Madrid!” Real also released a statement on Tuesday saying they had agreed to the transfer “at the will and the request of the player”. The statement added: “Real Madrid would like to express its gratitude to a player who has proved to be the best in the world and who has made this one of the most brilliant times in the history of our club. “Beyond the titles he won during these nine years at the club Cristiano Ronaldo has also been an example of dedication, work, responsibility, talent and constant improvement.” Quick Guide Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid Show • 451 goals in 438 games • Scored more than 40 goals in eight consecutive seasons • Scored 69 goals in 2011-12 season • First player to score 100 Champions League goals for one club • Four Ballon d’Or awards (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) • Four Champions League titles (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) Photograph: Paul White/AP Was this helpful? Thank you for your feedback. Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2009 after six years at Manchester United. He won four Champions League titles with Real, two league championships, two Spanish Cups and three Fifa Club World Cups. The World Cup Fiver: sign up and get our daily football email. He also became Real’s record scorer with 451 goals in 438 games. While there he won four Ballons d’Or and three Golden Boots. Real finished their statement by saying: “For Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo will always be one of our greatest symbols and a unique reference for our next generations. Real Madrid will always be your home.” Sergio Ramos, the Real captain, sent Ronaldo a message on Twitter thanking the Portuguese for everything he has done for the club since he joined in 2009. “Cristiano, your goals, your numbers and everything we’ve won together speak for themselves. You have earned a special place in the history of RealMadrid. As Madridistas we’ll remember you for ever. It’s been a pleasure to play alongside you. Big hug and good luck!” Juventus’s Sami Khedira, who played with Ronaldo at Real Madrid before moving to Turin, said: “Welcome to Turin, Cristiano. We were great at Real Madrid and I can’t wait to work with you again. Today is a great day for Juventus.”