9 players who picked Real Madrid over Barcelona: Vinicius, Ronaldo…
Picking whether you sign for Real Madrid or Barcelona is an honor held for a chosen handful. We've investigated some who've been given the quandary and picked Madrid.
For Real Madrid or Barcelona to be keen on marking you, you must be unique. To have the decision between the two, you must be a genius - or if nothing else a possible whiz.
That is the situation for every one of the nine players on this rundown, who had both a Blaugrana and Blancos shirt inside their grip however picked conclusively for the last option.
Vinicius Jr
In the wake of passing up a major opportunity to Barcelona on the marking of Neymar in 2013, Madrid president Florentino Perez became fixated on gobbling up the following extraordinary Brazilian ability. In 2018, that ability arose, he played for Flamengo and his name was Vinicius Jr.
Once more, both Barcelona and Madrid were intrigued, yet this time Perez wouldn't be beaten to his objective.
In 2021, previous Barcelona chief Andre Cury told SPORT: "With Vinicius, we were three and a half years in front of Madrid [in exploring and negotiations].
"His representatives, Frederico Penna and Stefano Hawilla, who had arrived at a responsibility with Barcelona, deceived us. The client of his organization was us and not Madrid. I had an enormous companionship with them, with the end result of being best man at weddings and submersions.
"At the critical snapshot of the activity, they betrayed us. Fifteen days prior to getting paperwork done for Madrid, here in Brazil Vinicius said that he was a Barca fan, that his venerated image was Neymar and that [Lionel] Messi was superior to Cristiano [Ronaldo]. Then, at that point, he got out whatever he needed after he went to Madrid."
Vinicius himself laid out a less terrible picture in 2019, telling AS: "I had recommendations from Madrid and Barca, as well. My dad let me know that I needed to pick, and I needed to lean on my instinct."
Rodrygo
Not happy with one Brazilian super-ability, Perez returned to the country for another 'next huge thing' later in 2018, marking Rodrygo from Santos.
Once more, the Barcelona offer showed up first. As indicated by Mundo Deportivo, Rodrygo's dad encouraged him to acknowledge, to proceed to play with Messi. Rodrygo said he needed to sit tight for a proposal from Real Madrid to emerge also.
It did and in 2022, Rodrygo told the Jota web recording: "I got back after a match. I had a shirt from Real Madrid in my home and my dad came into the room with that shirt and another of Barcelona and he said 'Now, pick'. What's more, I picked the Real Madrid one."
Heavenly messenger Di Maria
Di Maria was perhaps of the most sultry ability in Europe while at Benfica in his mid 20s and, as per GOAL, was the subject of an offering battle between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the main portion of 2010.
He in the end picked Madrid, going along with them for an underlying €25million and proceeded to win La Liga, two Copas del Rey and a Champions League.
Since leaving in 2014, however, Di Maria has two times enraged fanatics of his old club by playing with Barca, first in the late spring of 2017 when he was at PSG and again in 2022, now that he is a free specialist.
Cristiano Ronaldo
It appears to be strange to try and think of it as now, however we might have spent the 2010s watching Messi and Ronaldo play together as opposed to clashing.
In 2008, after two seasons without a significant prize, Barcelona president Joan Laporta confronted a no-certainty vote. Had he lost, previous Nike leader Sandro Rosell, who in the long run supplanted Laporta in 2010, would have been the #1 to dominate and he had a commitment: sign Cristiano Ronaldo.
It was not just Rosell who was intrigued, however, with Txiki Begiristain purportedly having met Jorge Mendes to examine an exchange from Manchester United as far back as February 2007.
Sir Alex Ferguson broadly loathed the strategies Madrid utilized while endeavoring to sign Ronaldo and it might have prepared for a transition to Barcelona, yet in 2009 Ronaldo was permitted to join Madrid, the club his heart had forever been set on.
"I'm simply so glad to be here," he said before large number of fans at his show. "For my purposes, I have made my life as a youngster dream a reality, which was nothing not as much as playing for Real Madrid."
David Beckham
Another worldwide footballing hotshot. One more man who left Manchester United for Real Madrid in the midst of a media furor. Another who could well have joined Barca.
In 2017, Laporta told Marca: "It was between Beckham, Ronaldinho or [Thierry] Henry. Joined let us know that they would offer [Beckham] to us on the off chance that we won the [presidential] political decision as we didn't have the power around then. Be that as it may, they utilized us and in the end he finished paperwork for Madrid."
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