inter beat real madrid

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FIFA have given Inter victory in the bitter row over Santiago Solari, so the Spaniards must now pay £7m.

The two clubs had agreed to a staggered payment when Ronaldo sealed his switch to Madrid in the summer of 2002.

The deal involved £23m to be paid over three years, plus either Solari in January or an extra £7m cash.

Solari failed to agree terms with Inter, but Real Madrid maintained that the wage offer was purposefully low and refused to hand over the money.

The matter went to FIFA arbitration and Massimo Moratti’s side was reportedly given the nod this afternoon, although an official statement will only be released next week.

Real will now be forced to pay the remaining £7m, bringing the total money they owe to Inter for the Ronaldo deal to £22.5m.

So far the Spanish giants have only handed over the first instalment of £8.2m since the move.

Considering the financial difficulties that Real are currently experiencing – which this week a Spanish newspaper suggested were considerably more serious than at first thought – it is rumoured Inter could bid to bring Ronaldo back to the San Siro.

Il Fenomeno admitted that “I would always return to Inter” now that Hector Cuper has been fired.

It is possible that the Nerazzurri could offer to wipe the slate clean with Real for the £22.4m owed and hand over Ivan Cordoba in exchange for the return of Ronaldo.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/oct31i.html

 

[Tidus_Raider]

I'm surprised it's taken this long for Real to get into financial 'difficulties'.

 

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i could accept ronaldo coming back to inter, but not at the expense of cordoba

i wonder if real will start a new tradition where they'll sell a star player every year?

 

[Craig]

Good I hate it when teams owe another team money and refuse to pay. As an Inter fan, we could find good uses for the money.

Wipe of any debts or put it back into the club.

 

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i'd like to use the money on adriano and stankovic! and maybe another striker

and let's get davids too!

 

[Nuffs]

inter could buy me for no more than $50,000!

 

[Mad Dogg]

Good I hate it when teams owe another team money and refuse to pay.

Tell me about it. Lazio still owe us money from the sale of Stam.

 

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the thing is lazio hasn't really done any big purchaases since then and has sold quite a few of their top stars

and yet real madrid buys beckham and even pays man u early

 

[hybrid_tiger]

Good I hate it when teams owe another team money and refuse to pay.

Tell me about it. Lazio still owe us money from the sale of Stam.

Thats because Lazio is scum!

 

[Craig]

Hey if Stankovic is a free agent, then yes it is a must, Adriano would make a great signing, Davids would fit right in, and I guess del Peiro or Trezuguet would be nice.

I would say Van Nistlerooy, but if we did, I suspect that Man U would ask for Vieri in return.

 

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we're no chnace of do piero, trez or ruud hahaha

davids is off-contract and at the of the season and is being linked to many top clubs, though it's expected he'll sign with juve or roma. stankovic is also off contract at the end of the season, but rumours about him to inter are quite strong. and adriano to inter is almost a formality

 

[Craig]

Well Chelsea are supposed to be interested in Davids.

Ok what striker should we go after?

BTW, nice win on the weekend over Verona. I am so much happy.

 

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the victory was awesome. i always love 3 points, but what was most encouraging is that we actually played well! from all reports, inter seems to be adapting to the 3-4-3 formation quite well

inter won't really need another high-profile striker next season. we've got adriano coming, and martins will be another year older. add them to vieri, recoba, cruz and perhaps kallon and that's enough depth for us, really

 

[Craig]

The pleasing thing is that are 7th and we are now back on track. I'm going to go to the Inter site and read all about it. It takes time, and I hope we can cap it off by beating Lokomotiv Moscow.

 

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don't you just love the inter site? it's the best club site i reckon - so much news and pictures

another site you might likes is www.interforums.com

i don't post there, but i read through all the threads

 

[Craig]

Now I know all you secrets on how you know all the transfers stuff. I was going to ask you the forum link, but you did it for me.

 

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the forum is so great cos all the fans there just copy and paste news from all the sources so you don't have to search for it yourself!

 

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11/10/2003. Jorge Valdano answered Fifa's invitation to pay Inter before the end of the month by declaring that Real Madrid won't be giving anything to the Italian club.

Inter sold Ronaldo to the Spanish giants last year and Solari was part of the deal but the player refused a transfer so the merengues were supposed to pay 10 million euro.

"I think that Inter hasn't read the contract properly and we will take legal action to defend our reasons because we believe that we are right," Valdano said. "However if we are proven wrong we will pay but we don't think that this is the case".

 

[The Greatest Brain]

Maybe inter should read their contract then.
Contracts are very complicated things, we as the general public can not possibly know what is inside the contract.

 

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well fifa has made their decision so if real still have a beef, it should be with them

i hope fifa punishes real if they still refuse to pay