Ground football: Ronaldo thought I was going to assist him

For half the summer, the whole world was watching the European Cup.

The European Championship has just ended.

After a long period of restraint, the major wealthy families have finally begun to take action.

Buy him! Buy him! Buy him!

But no one expected that the most significant deal of the summer would come from Portugal.

On July 24, Real Madrid officially announced that they had acquired their captain Luis Figo from Barcelona for a transfer fee of 60 million euros.

This deal has shaken Europe.

Basically, it can be understood as Messi joining Real Madrid and Ronaldo joining Barcelona.

This deal is outrageous.

It is full of too many coincidences and calculations.

Figo has played for Barcelona for five years, and his personal form has reached its peak this year. He hopes to earn a higher salary.

However, even the meteoric rise of Ronaldo meant he couldn't get a higher salary at Barcelona, ​​which led him to leave for Inter Milan.

Figo naturally did not receive a satisfactory price for a long time.

At the time, both Barcelona and Real Madrid were undergoing leadership transitions, and Figo's agent contacted Real Madrid.

Florentino Pérez, who announced his candidacy for Real Madrid president, declared his intention to bring Barcelona's star players to the club. This won him the favor of Real Madrid manager João Melanie, ultimately leading to his victory in the election.

Florentino Pérez and Figo had a secret agreement: if he were elected president of Real Madrid, Figo would have to join Real Madrid; otherwise, Figo would have to pay Florentino a huge sum of money, reportedly 30 million euros.

But if Florentino is not elected president of Real Madrid, he will lose a sum of money to Figo.

The specific details are subject to both affirmation and denial from various parties, but the fact remains that this event definitely occurred.

Ultimately, in order to avoid paying a huge sum of money in compensation, Figo had no choice but to join Real Madrid.

This incident dealt a huge blow to Barcelona, ​​severely damaging their brand value and making them a laughing stock in the football world.

If it weren't for the rise of Barcelona's Dream Team II and Dream Team III dynasties, and the emergence of superstars like Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Deco, MSN, Xavi, Iniesta, and Busquets to save the day, Barcelona might have fallen into decline.

And so Real Madrid ushered in their Galácticos era!

Besides Figo, there were many other exciting transfers this summer.

Lazio signed Argentine striker Crespo from Parma for €56.8 million.

Barcelona used 40 million of the 60 million euros from selling Figo to bring in the first generation of the Flying Dutchman Overmars from Arsenal, but it turned out to be a rather unsuccessful deal.

Roma lured their football legend Gabriel Batistuta from Florence for €36.2 million, and offered him the world's highest annual salary for a footballer: $7.15 million.

This was a deal that yielded immediate results, as both Roma and Batistuta secured the Serie A title they had longed for at the end of the season.

Paris Saint-Germain signed Nicolas Anelka from Real Madrid for €34.5 million.

Leeds United beat Manchester United to €26 million to sign Rio Ferdinand from West Ham United. He is the most famous Rio Ferdinand before Messi!

Real Madrid signed defensive midfielder Flavio Conceição from newly crowned La Liga champions Deportivo La Coruña for €25 million. However, this could become one of Florentino Pérez's ten worst signings.

It would be better to buy Sergio Conceição, a player from Portugal's golden generation who also has the same name and scored three goals to win the bronze boot in the recently concluded European Championship.

Parma signed Euro 2016 Golden Boot winner Milosevic from La Liga's Zaragoza for €25 million.

Juventus signed David Trezeguet, who helped France win the Ballon d'Or, from Monaco for €23.2 million. In hindsight, this was the most worthwhile deal of the year.

However, Juventus is still quite hesitant at this stage.

A year ago, they brought Thierry Henry, the other half of the twin stars, from Monaco, but he flopped and they sold him to Arsenal.

Juventus are worried that Trezeguet will have the same problem.

The tenth largest transfer deal in this summer's transfer window was Lazio's acquisition of key player Claudio Lopez from Champions League runners-up Valencia for €23 million.

These major deals have made European football more dynamic.

Similarly, it has also affected player transactions in other parts of Europe.

For example, Quaresma of Sporting Lisbon.

Since Barcelona signed Figo, Sporting Lisbon has established a friendly cooperative relationship with Barcelona.

The high price achieved by Simao is one such example.

Even though Simão didn't quite adapt to Barcelona last season, Barcelona is still willing to bring in the next Figo... Quaresma from Sporting Lisbon.

Aside from Figo's transfer to Real Madrid, there was nothing else to report.

Barcelona fans now hate Figo and everything related to him.

For example, Sporting Lisbon, and Portugal.

Interestingly, Barcelona fans will not fall in love with Portugal for the next twenty years, because someone they hate even more than Figo will emerge and take away all the profanity that Barcelona fans have been using for over a decade after the summer of 2009.

Cristiano Ronaldo: Who is so hateful?

Barcelona had already increased their offer for Quaresma from four million to eight million, and it seemed that ten million euros was a possibility if negotiations continued.

But after this incident, Barcelona fans collectively expressed their inability to accept the Portuguese player.

Barcelona's management also announced the closure of the transfer window for Sporting Lisbon.

Quaresma was forced to stay with the team.

Of course, Sporting Lisbon is still trying to sell Quaresma to Premier League and Serie A teams, but the transfer fee will definitely not be as high as what Barcelona is offering.

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Just when everyone was waiting for Quaresma's next club, a major change suddenly occurred in Sporting Lisbon's management.

The former club president was imprisoned for corruption, and the tycoon behind Triguera, who was imprisoned a year ago for tax issues, announced his candidacy for the presidency of Sporting Lisbon and promised to spend at least 10 million euros in transfer fees to build Sporting Lisbon.

He wants to transform Sporting Lisbon from a shady business into a true football powerhouse!

A true powerhouse, similar to Bayern Munich's status in the Bundesliga, that has maintained competitiveness in the Champions League for a long time!

With this statement, and in the absence of a better candidate, he quickly became the club president of Sporting Lisbon.

Then, the club announced in a high-profile manner the termination of Materazzi's contract and the return of the magical coach Triguera!

Under Materazzi's leadership, Sporting Lisbon has made no progress in the past year, finishing fourth last year and fourth this year as well.

Triguera is not only a former youth academy graduate of the club, but he also led Moreirense to a double title this year.

Sporting Lisbon fans would undoubtedly prefer Triguera as manager.

It could even be said that it was finally released after much anticipation!

The only controversy is whether Maxa was a better choice?

Should Trigra become Maxa's assistant coach?

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