Real Madrid and Manchester United have finalised an agreement for the £80m ($131.6m or €93.9m) transfer of Cristiano Ronaldo to the Spanish club.

A statement on Madrid's website on Friday read:

"Real Madrid and Manchester United have signed a final agreement for the transfer of the rights of Cristiano Ronaldo from July 1. The player will be tied to Real Madrid for the next six seasons and will be presented on July 6 at the Santiago Bernabeu."

The Portugal superstar came close to joining Madrid last summer before Sir Alex Ferguson convinced him to stay at Old Trafford. But Ramon Calderon, who was president of Madrid at the time, claimed this month a "gentleman's agreement" existed over the signing before he left the Spanish giants in January.

Nevertheless, Ronaldo becomes the latest signing in Florentino Perez's Madrid revolution. Having already brought Kaka and Raul Albiol to Madrid, the spanish giants can't seem to stop splashing money.

Meanwhile in Manchester, Sir Alex is troubled since two of his prime players have left this season and he is yet to sign a single player. Already linked with Benzema, Aguero, Huntelaar and Ribery United have failed to land a single player to replace Ronaldo and Tevez.

The ever lasting saga of Cristiano Ronaldo did finally end with the Portuguese star moving to Real Madrid. But another transfer saga surrounding Old Trafford since the last 6 months has been that of Carlos Tevez.

Carlos Tevez has been very vocal in expressing his desire to stay at Manchester if they sign him on a permanent deal. After much speculation and negotiations about his situation, Man United have tabled the required £26million to retain Tevez's services on a permanent basis. Of course that is a good news for all the Red Devil fans that a quality player of Tevez's stature is staying at home. But wait, it now seems that Tevez has decided to play games with United.

After United decided to sign Tevez on a long term basis, Tevez has announced that he wants an increase in his weekly wages. Rather he has threatened that if his wages are not hiked then he will have no hesitation in joining the rival teams, crushing United's nose.

Currently Tevez earns £95,000 as weekly wages and wants to have £110,000 per week as he thinks that he deserves this amount after 2 years of consistent performance which has seen United win the English league. Mark Hughes has already shown his admiration for the south american forward and plans to bring him to the other part of Manchester. It has also been heard that newly appointed Chelsea coach Carlo Anceloti had a personal discussion with Carlos Tevez and wants him to play for the Blues next season.

Maybe Tevez has decided that pay his employers in their own medicine now. Just like United kept on delaying the decision over his deal, Tevez and his agent Kia Joorabchian are now making United wait and wait and wait!

 
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