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REAL READY TO SUE RON
Madrid want £17million in compensation


By DAVID HARRISON, 09/08/2008

REAL MADRID are ready to hit Cristiano Ronaldo with a £17million compensation claim for refusing to join them.

The Spanish club are claiming that Ronaldo’s agent Jorge Mendes struck the astonishing deal with them at the start of the summer transfer saga.


Real are adamant they agreed personal terms with the Manchester United star and insisted on the compensation clause if the transfer was not completed.


Spanish media sources, who have become Madrid’s unofficial mouthpiece during the Ronaldo negotiations, are reporting that Real president Ramon Calderon is determined to press ahead with the claim.

Calderon might be prepared to waive compensation if he gets a guaranteed assurance from Ronaldo that he will join them next summer.


But, amazingly, he has left the door open for the Portuguese winger to complete another U-turn before the August transfer window closes.


A Real insider said: “The doors are not closed to things undergoing a U-turn. Until the transfer window closes everything remains in the air.”


That will further enrage United boss Sir Alex Ferguson who has vowed to have no more dealings with the Spaniards.