Shame it's BS! "It's not true. Ronaldo's move to Sporting in no way resembled what the story says. In 1997 Cristiano's club at the time C.D. Nacional owed Sporting €22,500. They didn't have the money so Rui Alves offered up Ronaldo if Sporting forgot the debt. Sporting weren't keen on the deal, paying that much for a 12 year old. So Nacional convinced a Sporting representative living in Madeira, Marques Freitas, to take him to the mainland and give Ronaldo a trial. There was no championship game, no manager from a big club, no 'the kid who scores the most comes to Sporting' fairy tale."
I had a look online for anything to support it and couldn't find anything directly supporting it, all I could find was the paragraph I quoted explaining how it doesn't make sense in terms of his transfer history. Also, what sham of a scouting network only takes the player who scores the most goals, and not the one who scored one and did all the hard work for the second? What if the team had an excellent right back?
Assuming it was true, for someone on 300,000k per week plus endorsements, win bonuses etc, giving up a few weeks salary is hardly a big gesture.
That's all very well, but you'd have to assume that he would have had to pay a hefty amount of tax on that.
Oh poor cristiano, only taking home a minimum of 150k per week in his salary and then all the other sources of income, he'll be selling the big issue next
