juve decide shirt number for ronaldo

The 33-year-old real madrid star set to leave Real Madrid after the club’s president, Florentino Perez, met with Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, and sanctioned his sale if their £88million asking price is met. Juventus are already putting together their offer also intend to make Ronaldo the highest-paid player in Italy with a £26.5m-a-season, four-year deal.

And now Sport Mediaset report that talks so far advanced that the club have already sought Juan Cuadrado’s approval to remove the Colombian of the No.7 shirt and hand it to c.Ronaldo instead. The Portuguese superstar has been synonymous with the number throughout his nine years at Real, even creating a ‘CR7’ brand and clothing range.
Cuadrado will switch to the No.16 to allow Ronaldo his favourite shirt number at juve, one which has been worn by Didier Deschamps, Antonio Conte, Paolo Di Canio and Marco Tardelli in the past. Continuing the number seven theme, Sport Mediaset also claim that Juve’s desire is to announce Ronaldo’s arrival in Turin on Saturday July 7, giving them very little time to wrap up the deal with real madrid.


Regardless, there is a growing confidence for Juventus that they are winning the race to sign c.Ronaldo after reports emerged that he has given his word to present Andrea Agnelli. Real Madrid are also planning a farewell ceremony of honour for Ronaldo to thank him for his incredible achievements at the club, having scored a club-record 451 goals in his nine trophy-laden seasons at the Bernabeu.