Catalan radio station Ona FM claimed yesterday that AC Milan will launch a new bid for Barcelona playmaker Ronaldinho (28) next week. The offer would be between 25 and 30 million euro°.
Catalan sports paper Sport claims today that AC Milan has put an ultimate offer of 25 million euro on the table. Although Manchester City is offering 40 million euro°, Barcelona would be willing to accept the Milan offer since Ronaldinho has made clear he'll only leave for the Italian club. The only other option for the Brazilian is to stay in Barcelona until his contract expires in 2010.
Despite several statements by high-ranked Milan officials over the last couple of weeks saying that they were not interested in the player anymore, the negotiations on Ronaldinho have been going on and an agreement could be found soon. The offer of 25 million euro has already been formalized by fax. Talks will continue in the coming days and Milan president Adriano Galliani could travel to Barcelona next week to close the deal.
Ronaldinho would already have agreed terms with Milan (read more here) and would receive in the next four seasons a salary of 9 million euro° net a year, which should compensate for the income loss caused by the transfer. Madrid sports tabloid As claimed last week that Ronaldinho is now receiving 3 million euro° a year from sportswear supplier Nike. This would drop to only 0,5 million euro° a year if he joins a team that is not sponsored by the American company.
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° 25-30 million euro =
40-48 million us dollar
20-24 million british pound
40 million euro =
64 million us dollar
32 million british pound
9 million euro =
14 million us dollar
7 million british pound
3 million euro =
5 million us dollar
2,5 million british pound
0,5 million euro=
0,8 million us dollar
0,4 million british pound
This is starting to turn into a comedy of errors! First we hear about how enthusiastic Milan is about potentially acquiring Ronaldinho. Then Milan says that Ronaldinho,(although a very nice player) is not realy "needed" because they have more pressing areas to fill on the club. Now Milan with their latest offer are basically contradicting themselves yet, again! Although I will say that Milan's initial "low ball" offer knowing that Ronnie was pretty much in a "lame duck" position didn't do either side any favors.
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