So, it’s finally happened. Real Madrid and Cristiano Ronaldo have got the deal they’ve wanted for the last two years.

The Portuguese winger will be Real Madrid player by the end of the month after Manchester United accepted an eye-watering £80m for their star man.

With Real earlier this week blowing £59m on Kaka you have to wonder where the Spanish giants are getting their cash from; and if they thought about buying Newcastle United for £100m - they seem to have the funds!

It’s all very exciting, but was the first Galacticos experiment ultimately exposed as being an unsuccessful model on which to try and base a winning team; you might sell a heck of a lot of t-shirts, but it you win nothing you look silly.

Perhaps returning Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has a genius idea up his sleeve to stop that from happening.

Moving on, reports in The Sun claim that Didier Drogba has told Manchester City to forget about trying to sign him because he wants to stay at Chelsea.

That could be a setback for Chelsea who might have tried to use the extra cash to try and land Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich how have slapped a £65m price tag on the French playmaker, at least so say The Sun" target="_blank">The Times.

It could be a busy summer at Spurs with The Sun claiming Harry Redknapp is ready to launch a massive clearout. Fourteen players look unsafe, chief amongst them being David Bentley, Darren Bent and Roman Pavlyuchenko, who cost the London club £47.8m between them.

Harry is apparently keen on signing a decent defender, which seems like a good idea. The Independent reckon Spurs are in a three-way fight with Sunderland and Stoke to sign Richard Dunne from Manchester City.