Real Madrid will sign Franck Ribery after all - but it will only be next season when he has a year left on his contract.

According to AS, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has already discussed and agreed terms with agent Alain Migliaccio.

Ribery will sign for a cut-price €25 million on a five-year contract.

The France international has been one of Real's major targets during the summer but Bayern were resistant to Real's advances.

But it is not clear whether the winger will be willing to leave Bayern. Ribery has claimed he never issued a transfer request.

"It has been a very difficult summer for me. It was all very stressful. Sometimes I get angry when I read the newspapers. I never asked Bayern to let me go," Ribery told German newspaper Sport Bild.

"All I said was if I left Germany, I would want to go to Madrid," added the France international, who is yet to put pen to paper on a contract renewal offered by the Bavarian club.

He also said that his idol, Zinedine Zidane, would like him to sign for Madrid and that the great man himself is aware of the difficulties of completing such a transfer.

"Zidane himself told me that he had trouble when leaving Juventus for Madrid. I know that Zidane would be happy if I went to Real. But now this is not the circumstance," Ribery remarked.