Transfermarkt Podcast Episode 4
“Do you think I would sign a contract with this mob? I wouldn’t even sell them a virus,” Sir Alex Ferguson said in 2008. But that’s exactly what he did a few months later – it wasn’t a virus, it was the most expensive footballer in the world: Cristiano Ronaldo. In Episode 4 of the Transfermarkt Podcast “Done Deals” is about the Portuguese’s move from Manchester United to the ‘Royals’ and Real Madrid’s return to the throne of Europe – stop in Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
“It was hope. Real Madrid had had very difficult years before that, lost five times in a row in the round of 16 of the Champions League … they were looking for this galactic and then CR7 finally came,” remembers Nils Kern, editor-in-chief of real totalto a Real that urgently needed to be renovated.
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The Spanish record champions and their fans suffered from the dominance of FC Barcelona – the newly elected president Florentino Pérez wanted to break through this and laid the foundation for this with a 259 million euro transfer summer. “Done Deals” host Max Ropers, Real expert Kern and Fabian Knottnerus from Transfermarkt.tv talk about Real Madrid’s daring and successful “All in” on the way to “La Décima”.
Talking about the Galácticos 2.0 is part four in a weekly series on the biggest transfers of the 21st century. From Real Madrid’s “Galácticos” in Episode 1, the rise of Chelsea with the era of José Mourinho, the FC Bayern, who plundered the fixed deposit account, towards the rise of the clubs Man City and PSG, which are backed by billions in oil. With experts from German football, the data power of Transfermarkt and the community.
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