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Florentino Pérez doesn’t do things by halves. Neither do Real Madrid.
For most clubs, a season finishing second only to a magisterial Barcelona side in La Liga, and suffering an (admittedly humiliating) exit in the Champions League to a side as well-equipped as Liverpool would register as decent. Disappointing at worst.
For Real however it represented an unmitigated disaster. Not only did they finish the season trophyless, they finished it minus their pride, their belief and even their moral high ground. Barcelona’s spectacular season-ending success in Rome only heightened the problem. Pérez’s arrival would trigger the kind of summer overhaul not seen since Dream Team sadly left our screens.
In his first stint as Real Madrid, the charming and charismatic Pérez spoke openly about a policy for “Zidanes y Pavones”, a hybrid of superstars (Zidanes) and home-grown, humble young players (Pavones). A noble idea in principle, and with Vicente Del Bosque at the helm, Real coasted to the League & Champions League double in 2002, but when the “Pavones” of such a scheme are of insufficient quality, even the best collection of “Zidanes” can take a side only so far.But return he did, the one-horse Presidential election of 2009 saw him elected as President for a second time on June 1, and he has since wasted little time in topping up his Galácticos. Seven days after his incumbency he had secured the signature he had long promised, that of Brazilian star Kaká from AC Milan. The fee? A mere |
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发表于 2009-7-3 14:06
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发表于 2009-7-3 19:45
