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By Claudia Beckford

The 23-year-old Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo who is considered as one of the best football players in the world, has been for some time now, facing a constant struggle to either put an end to his current contract with the English team, Manchester United, and join the giants at Real Madrid in Spain, or to continue his professional career as part of the Red Devils.

Despite the very reasonable arrangement is being offered to Ronaldo now, he has a good one already with Manchester, one he managed to settle when his contract began a couple of seasons ago. With a profit of £120,000-a-week the lad seems to be prepared to move on and perhaps he could believe Real Madrid is the next big step in his career. No official announcements have been made and either the club or the footballer has confirmed this to be true yet.

On the other hand, Manchester United has control of his contract and it will completely depend on them to allow the flyer leave. Even the team’s manager Mike Hytner has stated that in the case this becomes true and Ronaldo get transfered to Spain, Manchester will remain as one of the strongest teams in the Premier League, as not only one man holds the key of the team’s success. Hytner even refered to big names that consolidated their careers while playing for the Manchester as: David Beckham and Rudd van Nistelrooy, who decided to look out for new opportunities and even though they left the team survived without them.

Hytner did mention that the Portuguese has been an important part of the recent victories as he managed to score the remarkable number of 42 goals last term, leading United to win both the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League. Nevertheless, the team does count with similar players and if he leaves he will certainly be replaced by someone else. Basically the only player whose absence will have consequences at Manchester will be the head coach Sir Alex Ferguson who has become the man who knows the how’s and the when’s to reinvent the team even at its worst moments.

“There is no agreement with Real Madrid and I still don’t know where I will be playing next season,” Ronaldo said last Thursday while being interviewed.

If Ronaldo decides to pursuit this change it will certainly become one of the most expensive agreements in the history of football; some record busting figures have already been mentioned but no one has actually made any further moves to this point. Rumor has it Real Madrid has offered around £68 million for the flyer besides his £150,000-a-week on a five-year deal.

Ronaldo has recently overcome an ankle surgery and he is at the moment in healing treatment in his motherland, Portugal, where he’ll have to stay for the next 10 to 12 weeks in order to recover. Therefore, some time will go by before we hear if he and his club have finally settled for breaking their contract and if Ronaldo will be part of the upcoming Premier League season or if he will play in the Spanish Primera Division along side with Real Madrid.

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