Cristiano Ronaldo has put pen to paper on a new mega five-year deal at Real Madrid worth £76million (over €90m) making him the world’s best-paid footballer and says he wants to end his career in Madrid.
Ronaldo signed the deal at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday with club president Florentino Perez the day after he scored in Madrid's 2-2 draw with Villarreal.
The package will see him earn almost twice as much a season as Gareth Bale and is a calculated move aimed at soothing Ronaldo’s bruised ego after he lost the mantle of the world’s most expensive player to the £86m Welshman.
Under the new deal, Real will pay Ronaldo £15m a year after tax and before bonuses. Bale is on £8.3m a season and Ronaldo’s new deal would put him £850,000-a-year ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
It also all but ends Manchester United’s hopes of persuading Ronaldo to return to Old Trafford. United wanted Ronaldo to sit tight on his deal which ran out in 2015 and then move for a massive £50m signing-on fee in two years’ time.
But the possibility of a sensational return to Old Trafford, where he is still appreciated four years after his departure, seems remote after Ronaldo stressed the Spanish capital is where he wants to stay.
'I'm really happy here,' he said. 'I'll be here five more years. I just want to win trophies for this club.
'I appreciate the fans like me a lot to be here. I'm happy, I want to give my best on the pitch.
'I will be honest with you - everyone knows I was in Manchester for six years. Manchester is in the past.
'Now my club is Real Madrid. This is my home, my family is here and I'm really happy here.
'I respect all the clubs who ask about me. But they always know that my decision, that my only goal is to be here and to play at this club until, maybe, the end of my career.
'The future nobody knows.
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