"Napoli" president revealed to the Italian media that he spoke with Cristiano Ronaldo's representatives and negotiations could have taken place, but the club did not have the financial resources to pay for the footballer. This summer, C. Ronaldo unexpectedly decided to leave Madrid's "Real". The battle for his signature was won by Turin's "Juventus" - the footballer for 100 million euros will arrive in Turin on Monday. Aurelio De Laurentiis said in an interview: "Ronaldo was offered to Napoli. I called his agent Jorge Mendes and we talked about it. We had agreed on his transfer sum and that we would pay it in installments. However, the total deal would have cost 350 million euros, which Juventus is paying now. If we had needed to pay such a sum during that period, we would have risked reaching the brink of bankruptcy." C. Ronaldo will earn 120 million euros at "Juventus" over four years.
