AC Milan supremo Silvio Berlusconi is reportedly prepared to pay a mind-boggling £89million to prise Ronaldinho from Barcelona.
Spanish daily AS claims that Berlusconi is prepared to pay the 125 million Euros required to trigger Ronaldinho's buy-out clause at Barca.
The report claims that Milan will make a series of bids for the Brazilian forward, but if they do not succeed then such is Berlusconi's desire to bring him to the San Siro, he will meet the enormous buy-out clause, which would comfortably break the world transfer record currently held by Real Madrid, who paid £45.6million for Zinedine Zidane in 2001.
AS goes on to claim that an agreement has already been reached between Ronaldinho and Milan that will see him sign a five-year contract worth around £6million a year, plus exclusive image rights.
Ronaldinho has been in extensive contract negotiations with the Catalan giants to improve his current deal, which runs until 2010.
However talks have stalled, leaving the prospect of the Brazilian joining the European champions open.
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dragg
he is actually not as good as he used to be.
a-Lost-9uY
tats crazy
Slipshade
I can swear that this is FALSE. First of all, the news source is Spanish. Those Spanish papers and tabloids are usually full of hogwash.
Secondly, Ronaldinho is not going to leave for another few good years. Call it my intuition. Third and lastly, 89million is simply too far-fetched.
CKeer
You can buy 3 Zidanes with that amount of money.
Cheers. CK
KrU
That's so crazy. Imagine that sum of money can help how many people .