It's the story that just won't die: Ronaldo to Real Madrid. The latest episode in this epic saga emanates from radio station Cadena Ser, who claim that the Liga giants have secured £64m of funding from Spanish bank Santander to finance their next attempt to prise the FIFA World Player of the Year away from Old Trafford.
Apparently, Madrid officials have all the necessary paper work in place so that when interim president Vicente Boluda steps down at the end of the season the club's new chief has access to funds to sign the 23-year-old-winger.
Apparently, Madrid officials have all the necessary paper work in place so that when interim president Vicente Boluda steps down at the end of the season the club's new chief has access to funds to sign the 23-year-old-winger.
All this may seem a little far fetched given the global financial meltdown is predicted to get even worse but Madrid have a strange habit of stumbling upon new funds.
In 2001 Real sold their training ground to the City of Madrid for €480m, sparking a European Commission investigation into why so much was paid for so little.
The deal allowed Madrid to wipe out crippling debts of €270m, build a new state-of-the-art training complex on the city's outskirts and paved the way for the galactico era that brought Zinedine Zidane and David Beckham to the club.
At the time a spokesman for the EC, Tilman 'state the bleeding obvious' Lueder, said: "We believe the City of Madrid may have overpaid."
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