Football: Monaco set to make world record £85m bid for Cristiano Ronaldo

Monaco is poised to make a world record €100m (£85m) bid for Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, it is learnt.

Ronaldo has just two years left on his contract at Madrid and is known to be disillusioned with life at the Santiago Bernabeu, at the end of his fourth season there.

Monaco are closely monitoring Ronaldo's negotiations with Real Madrid over a contract extension, and if no deal is done by late July or August they will make their move.

Monaco is reported to offer Ronaldo an annual salary of €20m, which would equate to nearly £330,000 per week. The principality of Monaco does not charge its residents income tax and so Ronaldo would become the highest-paid footballer in the world.

It may be added that The Ligue 1 club, funded by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, have already spent over £110m this summer on Radamel Falcao of Atletico Madrid and James Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho of Porto.

via The Independent
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Watch Live Monaco - Nadal Free Streaming Roland Garros Fourth Round

The Roland Garros is now just a day away from the quarters as second seeded World No.3 and defending champion left handed Rafeal Nadal plays his fourth round match against 15th seeded Argentinian Juan Monaco Monday afternoon on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Monday's wil be fifth encounter between the Spaniard and the Argentinian. In the previous four matches, Nadal leads 3-1.

Nadala has so far lost only one of his last ten matches at Madrid. He moves to the fourth round after beating E. Schwank 6-1 6-3 6-4.

On the other hand, Monaco has lost two of his last ten matches at Rome and Monte Carlo. He beat M. Raonic in a tough third round match 6-7(5) 6-3 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4 to face Nadal in the fourth round Monday afternoon.

The match is scheduled for Monday, 4 June 2012 at 16:30 GMT on Court Suzanne Lenglen

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Monaco wins ATP Houston title

Monaco wins over American Inser to lift ATP Houston trophy Sunday 15 April [Photo: AP]

Argentina's fourth-seeded Juan Monaco outlasted US second seed John Isner for a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 triumph on Sunday in the final of the $442 500 ATP US Men's Clay Court Championship.

Monaco, ranked 16th in the world, captured his fifth career ATP title and his second of the year after a February crown at Vina del Mar. Before that, he had not won an ATP title since 2007.

“This is a great moment in my career,” Monaco said. “This tournament is going to bring me a lot of confidence.”

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ATP Houston Final: Inser vs Monaco - Watch free live streaming 15 April 2012

American second seed Inser (L) meets Argentinian Monaco at ATP Houston Final Sunday

The final of US Men's Clay Court Championship, part of the ATP World Tour 250 series, gets played Sunday 15th April between the American second seeded John Inser and Argentinian Juan Monaco at the River Oaks Country Club, Houston, Texas. 

The ATP Houston Men's Clay Court Championship is the only ATP World Tour event in the U.S. played on clay. Last year, Ryan Sweeting of USA beat Japanese Kei Nishikori 6–4, 7–6(7–3) to lift the ATP Houston trophy.

John Isner defeated Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5), 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Saturday to reach the final, while Monaco beat Michael Russell 5-7, 7-1, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon. Monaco broke serve six times to prevail in two hours and 25 minutes.

Ranked16th in the world, Monaco won his fourth ATP title, and first since 2007, in February at Vina del Mar and reached the semi-finals last month at Miami, losing to the eventual winner, world number one Novak Djokovic.

Venue: River Oaks Country Club, Houston, Texas

Date and Time: Sunday, 15th April 2012, 17:00 GMT

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US second seed John Isner to play Monaco for ATP Houston crown

US second seed John Isner had a tough time Saturday in ousting the Spanish third seed Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 to reach the final of the US$442,500 ATP US Men’s Clay Court Championship, Houston.

Isner, a runner-up last month at Indian Wells, seeks his first clay-court  ATP crown against Monaco.

The win will bring the American from 10th to  ninth in the ATP rankings on Monday, passing Mardy Fish to become the top-rated  US player in the world.

Read more: New Straits Times

Watch Live Stream Free Online: Djokovic vs Monaco ATP Miami-March 30

In my earlier post on the semi between Nadal and Murray which gets played at 19:00 GMT tonight, I mentioned about favourites, hots and odds. While in the first semi final Nadal is being dubbed as hot favourite, in the second semi final obviously it is Djokovic who is being preferred over Monaco to be the hot favourites.

Top seed Serb and the defending champion Djokovic overpowered David Ferrer earlier to reach the semi final tonight. Although the fifth seed Ferrer did gave tough time to Djokovic, the Serb kept his nerve to make his space in the semi final by beating Ferrer 6-2, 7-6 (7-1). In the second set, Djokovic was serving for the set at 5-4, when Ferrer recoiled and gave the Serb a jolt to finally have him win the set on a tie breaker.

Juan Monaco comes to the semi final by a 6-1 6-3 win over American Mardy Fish on Thursday. Incidently, it was Monaco's 28th birthday and what better birthday gift could have been for him for sailing through well and easy into the semi final and facing the top seeded defending champion.Monaco earlier beat American Andy Roddick, giving Rodick a shock of his life as he had earlier beaten Roger Federer and was in very high spirits.

The match tonight that gets underway at 23:00 GMT will decide who meets who in the final of the Miami Masters which is now on its last stage of the tournament. 

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