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It'll be after the NLD with a transfer tomorrow, Coentrao will decide to join us and his agreed value (fee will be undiscloded and we won't have to pay anything) plus the Bale fee will total 99m EUR.
Ronaldo's ego temains intact as the worlds most expensive player as the Bale deal and the Coentrao deal will be announced as two separate deals.
There is no way the Bale fee has suddenly sunk without a reason, Ronaldo is the reason, so the fee and payment structure has had to be renegotiated to accommodate his ego.
It all seems pretty obvious.
We could announce Coentrao today and Bale tomorrow.
How does that make sense?
If the total Bale fee is €99m, and for arguments sake - say Coentrao is worth €20m.
If we announce is as a single deal - it would be €79m + Coentrao. But that could be played around with to leave the cash price at €79 but mess around with player values to get to that total.
If we announce it as separate deals... bales fee would be €99m and therefore a world record by a long way. Coentrao would be a totally separate deal and therefore not help at all in helping Ronaldo's ego. Unless we sell bale for €79m and sign Coentrao on a free.