Cristiano Ronaldo's shock €300m transfer offer
Stuart Telford
- Updated: 14 Jul 2022 04:44 CDT
- 3 min read
Cristiano Ronaldo could be on his way out of Manchester United with a number of top European clubs linked, but a bid from Saudi Arabia might prove to be the most lucrative.
Failure to qualify for this season's Champions League and a comparatively slow summer on the transfer front at Old Trafford have reportedly turned Ronaldo's head.
Now 37, the Portuguese superstar is running out of time to play at European football's top table, and he is absent from United's pre-season tour of the USA due to "family reasons."
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Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain are among the Champions League clubs Ronaldo's agent has reportedly been in touch with, with so far most of his advances have been spurned.
Winding down his career, especially in a World Cup year, may not be something Ronaldo envisioned, but the sums of money involved are eyewatering.
€300 million package
Spanish sports daily AS report that a Saudi Professional League club are prepared to put together the biggest overall transfer package in sporting history to tempt Ronaldo to the Arabian peninsula.
"The €300 million of the proposal would be distributed as follows," they write. "A €30 million transfer fee for Manchester United, with €250 million given to Ronaldo across two seasons, and then the remaining €20 million for intermediaries."
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Ronaldo has already fetched more nearly €250m in transfer fees in his career, with his €117m move from Real Madrid to Juventus in July 2018 the most money he has moved for to date.
Ronaldo scored 24 goals in all competitions last season, a team-high 18 coming in the Premier League while he only needed seven games to bag his six goals in the Champions League.
A transfer fee of €30m for Ronaldo would dwarf the current Saudi top-flight record of €18m that Al-Hilal paid West Bromwich Albion for Brazilian winger Matheus Pereira in August 2021.
