Real Madrid's plan to go all out for Mbappé in 2021 continues. With the help of the French crack himself. As the companions of Le Parisien today, Mbappé has returned to give long to his club in the eternal negotiation that he tries to maintain with his star. There are three 'no's' to astronomical offers and to the different ones, some more subtle than others, pressure from the Parisian club to shield Mbappé at all costs. Mbappé does not want to put a lock on himself because, as AS published this week, he thinks about madridista. A resistance plan that was already followed by three of the galacticos who finally ended up at the Bernabéu: like Mbappé, Zidane, Ronaldo Nazario and Cristiano, they supported the push of their clubs in order to fulfill their desire to sign for Madrid.
As long as Mbappé remains firm, Madrid maintain their hopes. Lost this summer due to the crisis derived from the pandemic, the club has filled the piggy bank by selling homegrown players to have a mattress with which to go for the sensation bleu in 2021 as a preview of the new Bernabéu and Haaland in 2022. Florentino has experience in planning signings of this caliber, complex, arduous and long-term, counting on the internal support of the stars themselves. Mbappé has the example of resistance in three other galactics …
The French newspaper 'Le Parisien' published on Tuesday Mbappé's new rejection of not extending his contract with PSG.
Zidane's napkin and Agnelli's obsession
Zidane said yes to Florentino Pérez for the first time at the Monaco Yacht Club during a UEFA meeting and in one of the most surreal places possible: a napkin. It was in August 2000 and a year later, Zizou was a Madridista. By the way, Juventus did everything possible and impossible to keep him there, where he was Gianni Agnelli's right eye, the owner of the club and the FIAT. Known as l 'Avvocato, Ancelotti tells in his memoirs how Agnelli only went down to the locker room to talk to Zidane. The magician from Marseille resisted the pressures, even played the distraction (a month before becoming a white galactic, he said publicly “I'm staying at Juve”) and ended up fulfilling his dream. Zidane, Mbappé's idol and the first one who recommended him in Madrid, marked the way …
Ronaldo Nazario resisted Moratti's pressure at Inter and ended up, as he wished, at the Bernabéu.
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Ronaldo, Cúper and a meeting in the Mediterranean
“Or you give us 80 million euros, or Ronaldo stays in Milan“. Massimo Moratti's ultimatum to Florentino after they met in person at El Pitina II in Mediterranean waters was about to destroy Ronaldo Nazario's desire to be a Real Madrid player. Inter pushed him to the maximum, but The phenomenon he couldn't stand his coach, Héctor Cúper and I didn't want to continue like nerazzurri. On the horn Florentino closed the signing for 45 million.
“I would not sell a virus to Madrid”
Ramón Calderón joined the signing and Florentino signed him, but Cristiano's transfer was a three-summers soap opera. Before giving up and agreeing to the sale, Sir Alex Ferguson put a thousand and one obstacles. To Madrid (“I would not sell them a virus”, he came to announce with a blow of the chest) and the Portuguese star, whom he considered almost his family despite everything. United came to force Cristiano, in January 2009, to appear on the website of the red devils announcing that he would not move from Old Trafford despite having a pre-agreement with Madrid. Seven months later, seven (with number nine on his back) was presented at the Bernabéu before 80,000 people.
Cristiano resisted and at the age of 24 he fulfilled his dream of signing for Madrid. He was the youngest galactic to join the white galaxy. A record that Mbappé, at 21, has at hand …