AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti has defended his club's decision to sign Ronaldo from Real Madrid.

The 30-year-old is expected to complete his transfer to the Rossoneri later today in a reported €4.6million transfer.

The former Inter Milan forward has been out of favour at Real Madrid and his imminent move to the Rossoneri has been received with mixed emotions by some supporters who claim he is a touch on the flabby side.

"Ronaldo is not fat," Ancelotti said. "He is a very robust player. I think his problem is the fact that in recent times, he has not had much motivation.

"From a physical point of view, he hasn't trained much because he has been excluded from Real Madrid's team and he has lost motivation in training.

"But he remains a great player. In the last five years at Real, he has scored almost 100 goals. No one in the world has done that."

Ronaldo began his career with Brazilian club Cruzeiro before moving to Sutch side PSV Eindhoven where he scored 55 goals in 57 games.

The Brazilian then moved to Barcelona and scored 47 goals in 49 games. Milan's great rivals Inter Milan came knocking after that and the Brazilian moved to Italy for the first time.
 
He won World Player of the Year for the third time in 2002, the same year he helped Brazil to their fifth World Cup.

In the same year he moved from Inter to Real Madrid in a deal worth approximately €39 million