Arrivabene to Agnelli on CR7 at United: “We can’t touch his salaries”

The ‘Corriere della Sera’ today on the newsstands publishes some interceptions relating to the transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus to Manchester United. It was September 6, 2021 and the then ad Arrive well he wrote to the then Juventus president Andrea Agnelli thus regarding the negotiation with the red devils: “We have carefully evaluated all the numbers, also because there are previous salaries accrued with Covid (…) we are defining the mechanism for making the our counter-offer to United (…) the counter-offer is to leave the fixed and increase the part of the bonuses given that Ronaldo’s previous (…) we have tried in every way with Jorge (Mendes, ed) but we are unable to touch his salaries”. In short, that backlog of money, Cristiano Ronaldo demanded them all. Ronaldo would not have signed the ‘card’ perhaps to avoid risking possible disqualifications, but he entrusted it to his accountants, as a guarantee of the debt.