Ronaldo 'Signed' for Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid were once again linked in the papers today (yesterday in the Spanish ones) amidst news that one of Real Madrid's Directors had been speaking to a 'close personal friend' who also happens to have close links with a newspaper!

Spanish newspaper El Mundo published the conversation, with the Director says that only a confidentiality clause prevents Madrid from announcing the deal, while it also claims that other directors have privately leaked the news too.

Director Pedro Trapote and a "very close confidant" spoke last week.

"We have already signed the top player for next summer," El Mundo alleges Trapote to have said. "The top is the top. It is Cristiano, there is no one else. It's not bad, is it?"

But Trapote added: "It is better not to say anything right now because there are clauses that prevent us from announcing it right now. For us it would be the right moment [to go public] but we shouldn't do so."

Real mdrid have claimed to have Ronaldo signed and sealed for the last few seasons, but after last summer's drawn-out transfer saga, most United fans seem sure that this time it is more than likely that Ronaldo will go.