Ronaldo's former club Real Madrid reacts to his rape case as they plan to sue

Professional football club, Real Madrid are planning to take legal action after a Portuguese newspaper reported that the club forced Cristiano Ronaldo to settle with the woman by whom he was accused of rape.

The club addressed the report in a statement where they commented that the information  published by Correio da Manhã is “categorically false” and was published in an effort to “seriously damage the image of this club”.

Real Madrid further said they have “absolutely no knowledge of any of the information that the newspaper published with regard to the player Cristiano Ronaldo, and therefore the club was unable to take action on a matter of which it had no knowledge.”

The club were to take legal action against the Portuguese newspaper that reported that the club pressurised Cristiano Ronaldo into seeking a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with his accuser.

This comes a day after Correio da Manhã published an article saying that part of Ronaldo’s defence will be to say that Real Madrid forced him to settle. It said Ronaldo was against settling and always declared his innocence.

According to the newspaper, they said what they published and everything that went into the article was checked.

A 34year old Kathryn Mayorga, filed a lawsuit late last month in Nevada accusing Ronaldo of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009.  The teacher who was an aspiring model at the time of the alleged assault, Says she was raped in a bathroom at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in the early hours of June 13, 2009, by Ronaldo.

But Cristiano Ronaldo has repeatedly denied the accusations but admitted that they had consensual sex after which 'they returned to Rain nightclub and spent several hours together.'

He also admitted that he paid Mayorga  $375,000 (£284,000) hush-money payment in 2010, after she signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep quiet about their hook up.