Ronaldo's £3m in Real deal

Ronaldo forked out more than £3m of his own money to smooth the complex deal that took him to Real Madrid, according to Internazionale's president Massimo Moratti.

Despite accepting a £30m valuation after initially demanding about £65m for the striker, Moratti said yesterday: "In economic terms Inter came out of the whole deal very well because Ronaldo had to pay $5m (£3.2m) out of his own pocket in order to compensate us for lost sponsorship money."

That amount equates to about half his Real salary before tax, £6.3m, which also represented a pay cut for the Brazilian after his slightly more lavish Italian deal.

Moratti made it clear that Steve McManaman is still one of the two Real players - the other is Santiago Solari - he may take when the transfer window reopens in January.

Inter can take one player or cash in a "spending voucher" worth £6.45m. "At the moment it is 50-50," said Moratti. "We can either ask for the money or for the player, who will be either Solari or McManaman, but [the coach] Hector Cuper will make the final decision."

But both the 30-year-old former Liverpool player and the Argentinian left-sided midfielder have said they have no intention of leaving the European champions this season.

Moratti admitted he was still unhappy about the circumstances in which the World Cup's top scorer left Inter. "Inter did what they had to do, but we were the victims and it was Ronaldo who came out of it looking bad," he said, adding that the affair had left a sour taste in his mouth.

"Ronaldo played a great World Cup and finished as a winner, but Inter won nothing last season. That makes it difficult to forget what he did."

Ronaldo, who strained a thigh muscle last week in his first training session with Real, will be a spectator again tomorrow when they visit Real Betis.

Meanwhile Ronaldo's wife, Milene, is making her own big move into Spanish football and indeed surpassing him in setting a national transfer record. "Ronaldinha" is moving to Real's great rivals, Atletico Madrid, for £200,000, some 10 times higher than the previous record in Spanish women's football. The former model played in Italy for Fiamma Monza.