it hink that everybody is just coming out with their own guess about this deal right now. This thing about Milan paying money to Real if we get CL spot was something that Ernesto Bronzetti suggested as a possibel solution BEFORE Milan and Real had reahced an agreement (the one about 7.5 mil).
What Bronzetti said was that there were many possible solutions for this deal to materialize and in the end one or another will be found, whatever it turns out to be. Milan paying real money in case of qualifying for CL was only one such solution Bronzetti mentioned. Another one involved a UEFA regulation regarding transfers, which basically says that, for any transfer of a player, the selling club must give 0.5% of the transfer fee to each of the clubs that player has played for between the ages of 13 and 23, I think ...
in Ronaldos case this involves some Brazilian club, then Cruzeiro, PSV, Barca, and Inter. So, instead of Real paying these "fees", Bronzetti suggested that it would be possible that Milan would agree to take care of those just to facilitate the transfer ... but again, those were just some of the MANY possible solutions Bronzetti talked about BEFORE the actual agreement had been reached.
Yesterday, Real was asking for 8 or so mil, Milan was offering 7 or so mil with the dif between demand and offer being around 1 mil - this is what Galliani himself siad. Today, the official agreement reported by most sources is 7.5mil which is exactly what one would expect it to be.
There is a chance that, if Milan gets a CL spot for next year, Milan has agreed to pay those fees to Ronaldos previous clubs, instead of Real doing so, and this may very well be what RaiDue was reporting as a possibility of an "extra" payment in case of Milan qualifying for CL ... but to speak of another 4 mil given that Real's initial demand was 8 mil and we are paying them 7.5 is way off, I think.
Guys you are a bit too quick to just bash the management without giving much thought to whether the things that you hear around actually make any sense at all ... if you are so keen to go all crazy on Galliani and call him names, at least give it some time till the details are official.
EDIT: there you go - the confusion seems to be solved as I was typing this ... see, it's always a good idea to give it some time and know the details before we open a big bottle of WHINE
