Real Madrid look set to complete their U-turn on the future of Cristiano Ronaldo by offering him a contract extension that will keep him at the club until he is 35.
Madrid president Florentino Perez started the season with the intention of cashing in on Real's all-time record goalscorer with Paris Saint-Germain ready to pay close to €100million (£80m) for his services.
But Ronaldo has broken the 30-goal barrier for the sixth straight season and Gareth Bale - the man Perez wants to replace the Portuguese star as Madrid's talisman - has again missed part of the season through injury.
There is unlikely to be any great change to Ronaldo's current £16.5m per year salary, rather Madrid have prioritised simply extending his stay at the club.
Real Madrid look set to offer star striker Cristiano Ronaldo a new contract to keep him at the club until 2020
The Portugal captain has been in prolific form this season and the Spanish giants are keen to retain him
Madrid need to buy big this summer because a FIFA transfer ban will begin in January 2017 and they need to raise money to fund the spending.
Flogging Ronaldo whose current deal runs out in 2018 looked like being the best way of doing that.
But there has been a change of plan at the Santiago Bernabeu and Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez and Spanish forward Isco now look like being the highly-priced sacrifices.
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