As Real Madrid’s presidential race begins to gain pace, one of the potential candidates, Florentino Perez, is expected to deploy the same strategy he used to win the top job back in 2000. Only this time, the key to his success is Cristiano Ronaldo instead of Luis Figo.
Spanish daily AS has reported that Perez will use the Manchester United ace as one of his three electoral promises, along with Kaka and Steven Gerrard, to return to the ‘White House’. It has already been speculated that United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be forced to permit Madrid to negotiate with Ronaldo after signing a confidential written agreement last summer allowing CR7 to leave Old Trafford if the player so chooses.
The key man behind the move, however, is Merengues general director Jose Angel Sanchez, who was in Perez’s administration between 2000 and 2006 and was somehow retained by Ramon Calderon.
It is believed that Angel Sanchez used his close friendship with Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, to convince the Portuguese winger to sign a pre-agreement, whereby he will receive €12 million gross per year as his annual salary if he were to join Madrid, while Mendes will pocket €8.5 million in commission and the transfer fee will be approximately €80 million.
But Eugenio Martinez Bravo, who is so far the only person to have officially submitted his candidature for the elections, is likely to go the opposite direction. He revealed in an AS forum yesterday that if he were to be chosen as president, he would come up with a better way of spending the €80 million, such as investing in several Spanish players to recover Madrid’s lost identity.
Spanish daily AS has reported that Perez will use the Manchester United ace as one of his three electoral promises, along with Kaka and Steven Gerrard, to return to the ‘White House’. It has already been speculated that United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be forced to permit Madrid to negotiate with Ronaldo after signing a confidential written agreement last summer allowing CR7 to leave Old Trafford if the player so chooses.
The key man behind the move, however, is Merengues general director Jose Angel Sanchez, who was in Perez’s administration between 2000 and 2006 and was somehow retained by Ramon Calderon.
It is believed that Angel Sanchez used his close friendship with Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, to convince the Portuguese winger to sign a pre-agreement, whereby he will receive €12 million gross per year as his annual salary if he were to join Madrid, while Mendes will pocket €8.5 million in commission and the transfer fee will be approximately €80 million.
But Eugenio Martinez Bravo, who is so far the only person to have officially submitted his candidature for the elections, is likely to go the opposite direction. He revealed in an AS forum yesterday that if he were to be chosen as president, he would come up with a better way of spending the €80 million, such as investing in several Spanish players to recover Madrid’s lost identity.
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