Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo is still to complete negotiations over personal terms with Real Madrid.
The Daily Mail says Ronaldo last night demanded more money from Real Madrid before he completes his world record transfer from Manchester United.
The astonishing £80million move - agreed a week ago - would pay him £200,000-a-week after tax, but the 24-year-old now wants the Spanish club to smash their image rights pay structure, too.
His agent, Jorge Mendes, is still locked in talks over bonus payments which are based on personal sponsorship and other commercial deals, including shirt sales, and it is understood that he wants Madrid to give Ronaldo 55 per cent of the income he generates.
Brazilian superstar Kaka, who has just signed from AC Milan for £56m, will get only half of the revenue he generates and this is the most the club usually agree to.
At that 50 per cent level, it has been estimated that Ronaldo would enjoy 25 per cent pay increases each year as Madrid develop more commercial deals, and it is likely that he would be commanding an astonishing weekly wage of £557,000 by the end of his six-year contract. And he still wants more.
That works out at more than £29m-a-year but, with the transfer not sealed and United not due to be paid before 30 June, Mendes is trying to improve terms. Ronaldo already has deals with companies such as Nike and Banco Espirito Santo but his camp are reluctant to share earnings from new endorsements even though he would receive a cut in return from the sale of Real Madrid merchandise bearing his name.
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