RONALDO
Cristiano Ronaldo signed his new five-year contract at Real
Madrid on Monday and declared - I've got 10 years left at the top.
The 31-year-old has signed until
2021 but hinted in the presentation at the Santiago Bernabeu that he wanted to
finish playing aged 41 declaring his latest deal his 'penultimate' contract and
said 500 career goals for the club was not beyond him.
Ronaldo remains the club's top
earner with his extended deal although his £365,000-a-week wage is not set to
change substantially. He is already the club's all time top scorer and if he
sees out his new deal he will have spent 12 seasons at the Bernabeu – one season
more than the club's all-time greatest Alfredo Di Stefano.
THE TOP-10 BEST-PAID FOOTBALLERS IN THE WORLD
1=
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) £365,000
per week £19m per year*
1=
Lionel Messi (Barcelona) £365,000 per
week £19m per year*
3
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid) £346,000 per week £18m per year*
4
Hulk (Shanghai SIPG) £317,000
per week £16.5m per year
5
Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
£290,000 per week £15m per year
6
Neymar (Barcelona) £289,000 per
week £15m per year*
7=
Graziano Pelle (Shandong Luneng)
£260,000 per week £13.5m per year
7=
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) £260,000 per week £13.5m per year
9
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Manchester United)
£250,000 per week £13m per year
10=
Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)
£240,000 per week £12.5m per year
10=
Yaya Toure (Manchester City)
£240,000 per week £12.5m per year
All estimated figures are
pre-tax, except * where figures are post-tax. Sums may vary according to bonus
payments.
He said: 'This is a special day for me, extending my links
with this club, the club of my heart.
Renewing for five years is very special
and let it be clear that this is not the last contract.
'I want to keep making history and
I'm sure that in the next five years I will keep scoring goals and winning
trophies with the best club in the world. I want to finish my career at this
club but I want this to be my penultimate contract.'
Asked if he wanted to outdo Ferenc
Puskas who played until he was 39 he said: 'Forty-one,' and when asked about
what he had left to give he added: 'I think I have got 10 years left.'
RONALDO'S REAL HONOURS
La
Liga: 2011–12
Copa
del Rey: 2010–11, 2013–14
Spanish
Super Cup: 2012
Champions
League: 2013–14, 2015–16
UEFA
Super Cup: 2014
FIFA
Club World Cup: 2014
Ronaldo was shown a film of some of
his best goals for the club. There was also footage of his 2009 presentation at
the Bernabeu in front of 80,000 expectant supporters.
None of them will have been
disappointed by subsequent successes and Ronaldo admitted he had achieved more
than even he could have dreamed. He said: 'I did not expect these figures in
such a short time. But it comes from a lot of work from me and from the team. I
want to keep making history. Five years is a long time but I want to go on learning
and winning.'
He was asked if he tired of the
criticism that comes when he does not score - criticism that he heard again at
the weekend after failing to find the net in Real Madrid's 3-0 win over
Leganes.
He said: ' To score or not score is not so important. When a
player who is used to scoring doesn't then he is a bit down but it's not
anxiety as some people call it. This is a very happy day for me. I won the
European Cup and then the European Championship and now I have renewed for five
years so it's a great moment. It's been a great year.'
As well as the promise of 10 more
years of football he did not rule out breaking the 500 goals barrier before he
hangs up his scoring boots. He is currently on 371 with the club.
'I never thought I would break
Raul's record,' he said. 'Five hundred goals is a possibility but I am not
going to obsess over it. The most important thing is to keep improving and that
the team wins. The best is yet to come.'
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