New Cristiano Ronaldo Price Tag

Real Madrid will let Ronaldo leave the club for £170 million. This is the buy-out clause in new Cristiano Ronaldo’s contract.
Buy-out clauses are mandatory under Spanish football rules and the club have set the fee high to keep the star in the club for the duration of the contract.

Ronaldo will sign a six-year deal that will see him under contract until 2015.

Boylesports price Real Madrid 9/4 to face Manchester United next season in the Champions League. Ronaldo is priced 10/1 with the same bookmaker to be crowned World Player of the Year for 2009-10.

Betting On Carlos Tevez

Manchester United have confirmed that Carlos Tevez will leave the club and bookmakers are offering odds on Carlos joining different clubs.

SkyBet is offering 1/10 odds on Tevez to join Manchester City while Blue Square and 888 giving 4/6 for Carlos to join Mark Hughes’ side. SkyBet make Tevez best priced 11/2 to join Chelsea and 50/1 to join Liverpool.

Bwin To Renew Sponsorship Deal With Real Madrid

Bwin has started negotiations with Real Madrid to renew its sponsorship deal. The current deal is expiring next year and worth €45m over three years. German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung has reported the new sponsorship deal would cost Bwin €17m a year. It is also rumoured that Bwin would pay a performance-related bonus of €3m.

Bwin spokesperson Kevin O’Neal said: “We cannot comment on it because the contract is not yet signed. We cannot comment where the process is not yet complete.” A spokesperson for Real Madrid also declined to comment.

Bet-at-home To Sponsor German Open 2009

Bet-at-home is going to be main sponsor of German Open 2009. Tournament will be called “Bet-at-home.com Open”.

It is the first time cooperation between Bet-at-home and HSE GmbH.

Public relations manager, Klaus Retschitzegger, said: “We used to be major sponsors of many tournaments in Europe and proud to be the principal sponsor of this major ATP tournament in Germany. Germany is one of our key markets and this cooperation will strengthen positions of Bet-at-home“.

Suspicious Tennis Betting

Some of top online bookmakers suspended betting on a tennis match involving Spain’s Oscar Hernandez and Austria’s Daniel Köllerer on Monday.

Both players were priced as 5-6 joint-favourites, but bookmakers saw a surge of money just before the start for Hernandez that pushed his price in to 1-5 favourite. Hernandez won 6-3, 6-2.

William Hill and Ladbrokes stopped trading this match after they noticed “unusual” money. Unibet and Expekt mentioned they stopped taking bets before or early in the match. Betfair noticed the same trend, but did not stop trading.

The tennis authorities have already launched an investigation into this match.