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A report yesterday said the housing crash was even worse than thought – with prices falling 12.2 per cent this year and 4.6 per cent next.

Almost simultaneously came yet more evidence that footballers live, to use parlance Jamie Redknapp might understand, in a different stratosphere.

The Sun claims that Emmanuel Adebayor has bought Cristiano Ronaldo’s home in Cheshire’s home of the stars, Alderley Edge, where the streets are literally paved with gold.

The local housing market has been blown sky high by the arrival of Manchester City’s new army of recruits, many of whom were in the running for Casa Del Ron.

The house boasts a jacuzzi and home cinema, while Ronaldo, ever the slave to good taste, had one of his windows modified with metal bars to spell out ‘CR7′, which must now be re-wrought into ‘EA25′.

Gareth Barry, Kolo Toure and Carlos Tevez were all believed to have registered their interest in the seven-bedroom pile, which fetched a whopping £5.5 million – earning Ronaldo a £1.68m profit, otherwise known as eight week’s wages.

Tevez already lives locally after two years at United, although based on his version of his time at Old Trafford, Fergie probably made him sleep in a dank, vermin-infested dungeon in the bowels of the club’s Carrington training ground.

The house was not advertised publicly, with the sale orchestrated by the players’ agents.

Small wonder, then, that the money men provoked a bidding war which saw the property fetch nearly £1m above the asking price – nearly all of which probably disappeared straight into the wallet of Ronaldo’s Senhor 15 per cent, Jorge Mendes.

We cannot help but feel the media missed a trick here. Surely this saga deserved wall-to-wall coverage on a par with the summer’s other big transfer stories?

Who wouldn’t have loved to seeing Toure’s agent appear on Sky Sports News, fending off questions from a visibly perspiring Sam Matterface about the state of the Ivorian’s house hunting?

“Can you confirm reports that your client’s bid is being jeopardised by Ronaldo’s insistence on taking the curtains with him?”

“Our sources claim you have been gazumped and will switch target to a home in Wilmslow. Is there any truth in this?”

If last season’s performances are any guide, it is the only race Adebayor will be winning for a while.

Source: Eurosport.Yahoo

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