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 Juventus paid Real Madrid £105m for Ronaldo earlier this summer. The deal will see the superstar paid £106m over four years

 Ronaldo, 33, will have his first training session with his new Juve team-mates today

 And De Laurentiis has mocked the deal. "Spending so much money to buy only one player at the end of his career is very dangerous," De Laurentiis told La Vertia

 "Let's remember that Cristiano Ronaldo is of a certain age and in terms of the club's balancing of accounts his signing is a risky move

 "The signing of Ronaldo is out of any standard. "If you start to pay such absurd and out-of-the-ordinary salaries, sooner or later this turns against you

" In signing Ronaldo, Juventus became the first Italian side to break the £100m barrier for an incoming transfer

 They also smashed the previous transfer record in Italy by landing Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli in a £75m deal two years ago

 De Laurentiis has goaded Juve in the past for their transfer dealings and famously laughed at the price they paid for Higuain once the deal was settled

 And he revealed there were talks with agent Jorge Mendes over how Napoli could capture five-time Champions League winner Ronaldo

 "(Ronaldo) has at his side what - perhaps - is the most intelligent of sports agents: Jorge Mendes," De Laurentiis added

 "I had been with him for breakfast in Portugal and in those days we talked about the goalkeeper Rui Patricio

 "Then, when it was clear that Real wanted to left home (Real Madrid), he called me and said: 'Listen Aurelio, can we play this game?' "Was it too expensive? Nah

That said, it's a nonsense. I imagined a model in which the costs were matched exclusively with the proceeds mirrored to the relative costs of the operation

 "I had told Mendes: 'Do you think that Ronaldo will make me rich? If so, we do it so the first €250m turnover goes to Napoli, and the next €100m are due to Ronaldo'

 "If he could actually earn (those figures), he would have nothing to risk or to fear

 "But then Juve arrived, and - behind FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, who have part-funded the Ronaldo deal) - raised the stakes

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