Per r/soccer and Monaco forums - Ronaldo to AS Monaco rumor (A book in itself)

Short story:
Mbappe is leaving for €180M
Lemar is leaving for €70M
Fabinho is leaving for €50M
Tielemans is taking number 10
Ronaldo is taking number 7

Long story:
Dmitry Rybolovlev, Alexey Fedorichev and Jorge Mendes have very close business ties in various sectors, but i'll only talk about football, they have several investment fonds in various tax paradise countries and they have stakes in many known and unknow players, it's a complicated system, so to keep it short let's just say players are like commodities for them and there aren't many emotions involved, it's all just purly business...

Alexey Fedorichev is the owner of Fedcomivest, our main sponsor, he's the one who introduced Rybolovlev to Willy De Bruyn (director of SBM 2011-2015) and after that Willy introduced Rybo to Prince Albert II, short after that Rybo got 66% of the club for €1 if he invest at least €100M during the first 4 years...Fedorichev was the owner of Dynamo Moscow and Rostov, during those periods he became friend with Jorge Mendes and he brought many portuguese players to his russian clubs, at one point he even wanted to buy Monaco, but he was denied because of his shady past, so he just remained sponsor with his Fedcom company, it's already 20 years how his company is involved with Monaco...

Fedorichev was also the one who introduced Rybolovlev to Mendes, without him we would never be able to get Falcao, James and Moutinho, and they were essential in putting Monaco back on the world's football map...as i said, the friendship between Rybo, Fedorichev and Mendes is so strong that they became involved in many business dealings, many of them are outside of football, like real estate and other stuff...

Vadim Vasilyev worked in the past for Rybolovlev (Uralkali) and Fedorichev (Fedcom), then he had his own company with several different businesses, from trading commodities to restaurants, but he remained very good friend with both Rybo and Fedorichev...he never really wanted to be involved with football, but Rybo conviced him to come to the club as his special counsel, because our commercial and marketing departments were disastrous, and then slowly but surely, Vadim became so addicted to football and he accepted to become our sporting director, following later with his vice president and CEO title...Vadim also became very good friend with Mendes and they have very tight bond, it's important to put things in the proper context, people always tend to blame Mendes when some of his players leave the club, like he's forcing them to do so, but in reality Rybo and Vadim always said to any player that if they want to leave and if the right offer is on the table, they will sell them, because there's no point of keeping someone who wants to leave for bigger salary or to play in some different league...

Now let's talk about present, Mbappe is perfectly OK with staying one more year in Monaco, but the club wants to sell him now while the hype around him is so incredibly high (€180M), Fabinho has gentlemen's agreement to leave the club if the right offer is on the table (€50M), Lemar can also leave if someone is willing to pay the right price (€70M)...the chances of all three of them leaving are incredibly high, so don't be too sad, it's all business...on the other hand, club is working very hard to bring Cristiano Ronaldo, ever since we came back from the Ligue 2, Rybo wanted to buy Ronaldo, during these 4 yars of good friendship with Mendes, both Rybo and Vadim became extremely good friends with Ronaldo, they had countless meetings in the past and present with him and they discussed many times about brnging him to Monaco...there were many obstacles on the way, from Financial Fair Play to Ronaldo's desire to break all Real Madrid records, but now it's finally the perfect time to get him, especially after being accused by the spanish authorities for tax fraud, the wheels are set in motion and the dream will become the reality...

Ronaldo can't leave Madrid before double-leg supercup games against Barcelona (August 13 and August 16) because of various sponsor commitments, so for the next 7-10 days there won't be any movement, but after that Monaco and Real Madrid will enter the concrete negotiations surrounding Ronaldo and Mbappe, things got a little more complicated with PSG and Neymar, because before that transfer happened, Ronaldo had gentlemen's agreement to leave Real for around €180M (his buy-out clause is one billion euros, but Jorge Mendes and Florentino Perez have verbal agreement that Cristiano can leave for around five times less)...now that Neymar was sold for €222M, it means that Ronaldo will cost more, simply because he wants to be the most expensive player in the history, it's important for image and hype, so he's price is around €230M, in other words Monaco will have to add €50M to Mbappe (€180M) to buy Ronaldo, they will do it, it's a done deal...Ronaldo's current salary is €21M after taxes, Messi has €25M after taxes and Neymar has €30M after taxes, so Cristiano will get something between €30M and €35M per year (no taxes in Monaco) and he'll sign 4-year or 5-year contract, so he'll be 36 or 37 when his contract ends, those things still needs to be agreed on, but the most important thing is that Ronaldo gave the green light to Rybo and Vadim almost one month ago, that's why they immediatelly took away number 7 from Rony Lopes and they said to all current and new players that number 7 is already reserved for someone special, but only Falcao and Moutinho know that Ronaldo is coming, plus of course Jardim knows that Cristiano is soon to be monegasque. everybody else are pretty much in the dark, and that's why there aren't rumors going around about Ronaldo and Monaco, but very soon that will change and you will hear more and more about that...the whole transfer will take some time because of many things, Mbappe already has verbal agreement with Real, but he also has good offers from City and PSG, even if he doesn't go to Madrid, his price is still €180M, maybe even the whole €200M if PSG is determined to buy him and he decides to go there...in that case, we would still buy Ronaldo for €230M, and Real would buy Hazard or Dybala to replace him, but right now the most likely scenario is that Mbappe is going to Real, and that Monaco will add €50M to that transfer, so that Ronaldo can become the most expensive player in the world...