SNEAKY: Ronaldo
Ronaldo, 23, is believed to have met Alyona while out in
Alderley Edge, Cheshire—a favourite haunt of his Manchester United
team-mates. Our exclusive photo shows him and the 25-year-old
English Language graduate leaving the posh Piccolino restaurant in
Bramhall, Cheshire, together only last weekend.
Witnesses said Ukrainian Alyona and the £130,000-a-week winker
sat next to each other as they enjoyed dinner with another couple.
After leaving the restaurant the group piled into the footballer’s
Porsche Cayenne and sped away.
Just days later Alyona joined husband John and his 11-year-old
daughter Isabella at a meal to celebrate his 50th birthday—leading
him to think there was a chance of them getting back
together.
John said: “There is no way I could have sat down and had dinner
with her if I had known she had been with Ronaldo a few nights
before. Now I know our marriage is definitely over.”
John has now hired a private detective to investigate his wife
and has threatened to divorce her and front up the Portuguese star.
The Scouser, who is 6ft 2in and boxes three times a week, said last
night: “I’m going to confront him now. Before all this, we were
together for five years and had been planning a family
together.”
LOVER: Estranged wife Alyona
Alyona’s name appears on the website From Russia With Love,
which promises to “bridge the gap between young, single and
educated ladies of the former Soviet Union and the lonely,
despondent and usually divorced men of England.”
A website for another agency called Lilialove features a photo
of Alyona and the pledge to “help you meet the Russian lady of your
dreams.” John, who has made millions from a commercial cleaning
business, told how he met Alyona when he was on holiday in Odessa,
Ukraine, five years ago. He said their marriage had been perfect
until this summer.
At the time Ronaldo had just dumped lover Nereida Gallardo by
text and was being linked with Italian model Letizia Filippi. John
said he confronted Alyona, who he calls Ally, recently about
Ronaldo and they had a blazing row. He said: “Before we split she
was telling all her friends that she was going to have a baby with
me.
“I had just bought her a very nice diamond ring for her birthday
and all the rest of it. It all went down the toilet rapidly, very
rapidly.” When their relationship broke down John bought Alyona a
ticket back to Kiev on September 13 to get her out of the country
because I suspected something was going on and unbeknown to me she
flew back to the UK 10 days later," he added.
John said that his suspicions were confirmed when he was
shown a photo of his wife and Ronaldo leaving a restaurant in
Manchester late on November 28.
"I had hoped we were just going through a rough patch but
when I finally saw a photograph of them together it confirmed my
worst fears. I felt physically sick," he said. A pal confirmed that
the pair had been out on eight dates.
