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Real Madrid: The Success and Failure of the Galacticos Era - YouTube. balón - English. 169K subscribers. 27K. 1.8M views 3 years ago. When Florentino Perez won the Real Madrid elections in the...
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Explore the history of Real Madrid's legendary "Galáctico" policy and how it has shaped the club into one of the biggest and most successful teams in the wor...
Galácticos (Spanish for galactics, referring to superstars) are expensive, world-famous Real Madrid football players recruited during the "galácticos" policy pursued during Florentino...
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- Aro Arbeloa – £3.6m – Liverpool
- Eban Granero – £3.6m – Getafe
- Aro Negredo – £4.5m – Almería
- L Albiol – £13.5m – Valencia
- I Alonso – £31.5m – Liverpool
- Im Benzema – £31.5m – Olympique Lyonnais
- Á – £60.3M – AC Milan
- Stiano Ronaldo – £84.6M – Manchester United
Much like their fierce rivals Barcelona, the world of football is littered with players who came through the ranks at Real Madrid, but just couldn’tmake the grade – with Alvaro Arbeloa a prime example. Hardly a poor footballer, the Spanish right-back found success at first Deportivo and then Liverpool, spending two good years with the latter before...
Much like their fierce rivals Barcelona, the world of football is littered… Yeah, pretty much. Esteban Granero – much like Arbeloa before him – departed Madrid for a smaller Spanish side in the hope of first-team minutes, but actually impressed so much during his two seasons with Getafe (the first of those spent on loan), Madrid opted to bring the ...
Much like their fierce rivals Barcelona… No, not quitethis time. Álvaro Negredo had begun his career at city rivals Rayo Vallecano before joining Madrid’s Castilla side before being moved on to UD Almería in 2007. He followed the same timeline as fellow Spaniard Granero, but instead of being given a chance at Madrid upon his 2009 return, the big ce...
The entirety of that Negredo fee can be seen as going on Raúl Albiol; a reliable pillar in the backline who acted as able cover for Madrid during his four-year spell at Los Merengues, and one who can still be found marshalling La Liga defences to this day at Villarreal. And able cover he was – filling the gaping void left by Pepe when the Portugues...
While it’s clear Pellegrini was very conscious of beefing up his squad with filler players and bench options, he also splashed the cash necessary to add instant improvements to his first XI – with Xabi Alonso the man chosen to add steel and style to the centre of the park. He managed some forty games that season for Madrid and was named in the Marc...
If you look at any list since 2007 relating to goal scoring, goal involvements or goals-to-games ratios, the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo consistently dominate, but Karim Benzema has gently purred away in the shadows as a quietly superb forward – and one who is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Benzema propelled himself to...
Having been at the eye of a transfer storm during the 2009 January window, AC Milan knew they had their work cut out to keep Kaká at San Siro – and so it proved. While the Brazilian ultimately rejected the advances of nouveau riche Manchester City, the allure of Los Blancos was too much for the midfielder – or the club to turn down, as the former S...
Last, but not least, it’s the man Real Madrid made the most expensive footballer in the world. The creme dela creme. The gold standard. The greatest signing in the history of football. Cristiano Ronaldo strutted onto the hollow turf of football’s finest theatre on July 6th with the weight of the world on his shoulders, but departed it nine years la...
Jul 20, 2021 · Real Madrid had gone 32 years without winning the European Cup until the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, when they won the UEFA Champions League in 1998, 2000, and 2002. The team's cluster of world stars inspired the label 'Galácticos' in the last few years of this period.
Apr 10, 2017 · #1 Luis Figo. Luis Figo alone defined the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid in the early 2000s with his transfer. One of the greatest players of his generation, Luis Figo became the first...
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Jun 17, 2020 · The Galactico takeover began with the controversial acquisition of Luis Figo from Barcelona in 2000. Figo at the time was considered the world’s best after a stellar final season with Barcelona.
