MADRID CONFIRM REDONDO MOVE
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In a club statement, the Bernabeu club confirmed that the 31-year-old former Tenerife player will be making the switch, the statement reads as follows:
"Real Madrid Club of Soccer wishes to make public the agreement to that the player Fernando Redondo and the AC Milan have arrived, and that will tie the player with the Italian club during the next seasons, this takes place by express desire of the player, Real Madrid will receive the amount of 3,000 million pesetas.
"The desire of the player to join AC Milan, means that Real Madrid has not decided to put an obstacle in the way of the crossing, although we must consider the extraordinary professionalism that the player has shown at any moment in the white shirt of Madrid."
Redondo will sign a three year deal at the San Siro, worth a reported wage of 800 million pesetas, making him one of the highest paid footballers in the world.
Milan vice president Adriano Galliani confirmed the move, but stated that their spending was now likely to be at an end.
"Signing Redondo effectively brings our transfer activity to an end," Galliani said, and added that it reminded him of the signing of Dutch legend Frank Rijkaard.
"They didn't want him (Rijkaard) to go. The same thing happened yesterday outside the Bernabeu. We had to leave through the back door in the end but it all went okay."
