Joy unconfined. Sport’s most tedious transfer affair is over, every schoolboy’s favourite slave Cristiano Ronaldo will be playing for Manchester Utd this season. Or at least, using their treatment room, jacuzzi and weights room. Don’t get too pleased, though, the will-he-won’t-he saga will be back for a sequel next summer, and there won’t be a European Championship or Olympic Games to distract us. The Confederations Cup had better be good.
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