Ronaldo offered the highest wages of all time.

New Real Madrid signing, Cristiano Ronaldo, has been offered the highest wages in history for any single player. Ronaldo is set to earn roughly £106 million over a six year period with wages of over half a million pounds per week at the peak of the deal.

He actually starts on the staggering sum of £183,000 per week, which easily surpasses the £160,000 that Robinho is currently on at Manchester City. The news simply acts as further proof that Real Madrid are looking to invest their way back to the top.

No doubt the news will anger thousands owing to the fact that Ronaldo will be earning £50 minute and over £3,000 per hour. These are stupid sums of money and will not win the Portuguese star any admirers. It would be difficult to find any other club in the world that would be willing to pour so much money into one player. It also creates a huge pressure and risk and maybe actually does justify the calls from some Manchester United fans that he is not worth that level of investment.

It is difficult when you listen to Ronaldo talking about Madrid to understand how he feels it is a better proposition than playing at Manchester United, the club where he made his name and the club where he has had all of his success. It is very easy for people that do not admire him too much to say that he has simply moved to Spain in order to increase his already substantial wealth and fortune.

If the latter is the case then football is declining as a game and it just goes to show that even the best players can be swayed from venture to venture via the nature of their bank balance. However, none of us would blame him. If anyone else were offered such huge sums of money to go and play football in an appealing part of the world it would take a dishonest man to say he wouldn’t be interested.

The whole affair puts to the back of the line the criticism that David Beckham received when he joined LA Galaxy for roughly half of what Ronaldo will be earning. The news of the wages should also act as an incentive UEFA and FIFA to work quickly in proposing a type of budget system in football that would mute these massive financial influences. What Ronaldo will earn in a week could buy a brand new squad for a League One or League Two side in this country.

The mind boggles at how Madrid can keep this financial push going as they seem to have more money at the moment than sense or the government of a small country. Kaka will be on a good deal, as will David Villa if he completes his move from Valencia. Madrid should be very wary, these amounts of money could make an ego that is already quite large, one of epic proportions and there could come a case where Ronaldo feels he is the main man at the club and the person who should run the show.