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Published 08:52 6 Jul 2018 BST
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United didn't insert a sell-on clause in the deal which took Ronaldo to Spain. However, as pointed out by The Mirror, because they signed him as an 18-year-old they qualify for training compensation under FIFA’s Solidarity Mechanism rule.
The report points to the Regulations on the Status of Transfer and Players handbook, page 25, article 21. This states: 'If a professional is transferred before the expiry of his contract, any club that has contributed to his education and training shall receive a proportion of the compensation paid to his former club (solidarity contribution).'
A more exact breakdown of the pricing of this particular rule follows in Annexe 5 of the same document (page 70). To spare us all the headache of working it out, the report summarises it by saying that United are owed 0.5 per cent of the overall fee for every season he was at the club.
Assuming the fee is £88m, this works out at £440,000 a season. With Ronaldo at United for six seasons, they would receive £2,640,000 from the deal.
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