Manchester United’s Dutch international Ruud van Nistelrooy is on Tuesday due to finalise his $18-million transfer to Real Madrid, Marca sports daily reported.
”Real Madrid will announce today [Tuesday] the transfer of Van Nistelrooy,” Marca wrote of the man who will be Real’s first signing of the summer.
”An agreement has been reached for â,¬14-million,” Marca added, saying the Spanish side’s sporting director Pedja Mijatovic will go to England to tie up the details.
”It will be the first transfer of the Fabio Capello era.”
Capello is coaching the nine-time European champions for a second time after leaving Juventus.
Van Nistelrooy, who has just turned 30, lost his place at Old Trafford in the final quarter of the season as he fell out with manager Sir Alex Ferguson and was also a spectator as Holland went out of the World Cup to Portugal.
But Real see the man who hit 95 goals in 150 appearances for the Reds in five years as key to bringing them their first silverware since 2003. — AFP
