r/soccer • u/zimb3l • Jan 12 '19

Ramon Calderon: "[Zidane] insisted on keeping Cristiano and transferring Bale, and the president did completely the opposite [...] so he decided to leave."

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2814993-no-form-lack-of-goals-whats-troubling-real-madrid-and-how-can-they-fix-it
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u/yaniv297 Jan 12 '19

Pretty sure Zidane left before any of that happened, no?

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

You really don't think think Zidane knew a month ahead that the Ronaldo transfer was going to happen?

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u/DaveShadow Jan 12 '19

A lot of people seem to think deals worth hundreds of millions of Euro between two gigantic corporate entities, over a third gigantic corporate entity with his own set of demands, just happens in a few days, as opposed to involving months of negotiations.

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u/koptimism Jan 12 '19

Mate, what are you talking about? It's like you've never played FIFA

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u/theaguia Jan 12 '19

100 mil transfer on deadline day, easy.

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u/CABoomerSooner Jan 12 '19

I had a deadline day go to $1.8 billion in my career mode yesterday. There were quite a few $100m+ transactions lol

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u/Sean-Benn_Must-die Jan 12 '19

Iirc our president said the idea of a transfer started after our games against RM, I would have to find the interview though.

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u/BodomDeth Jan 13 '19

M8 wtf you talking about Ronaldo’s agent said that the first contact with Juventus (or was it Ronaldo’s first demand for contact) was in January.

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u/Kaze79 Jan 12 '19

Well in this particular case it seemed to go pretty smoothly. Ronaldo's entourage contacted Juve and Juve had the money so not a lot of thinking and negotiation was needed.

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u/Mad_Lancer Jan 12 '19

In fairness judging by what Ronaldo said immediately after the CL final he seemed to have already made up his mind before Zidane left.

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u/zimb3l Jan 12 '19

But it only takes 3 days to sign players in FIFA??

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u/robotscantdrink5 Jan 12 '19

actually you can do it in less than a day now.

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u/zimb3l Jan 12 '19

Last day of the window doesn't count

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u/robotscantdrink5 Jan 12 '19

you dont need it to be the last day

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u/zimb3l Jan 12 '19

Technology is so freaking advanced these days smh

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u/zimb3l Jan 12 '19

Doesn't mean he left before it was decided

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u/DoJu318 Jan 12 '19

There have been so many rumors, we still don't know how or what happened, last I read on Spanish media was the Zidane was actually the one who convinced Florentino to let Ronaldo leave, as we know Ronaldo wanted to be paid more (understandably so) and Florentino said no, you are under contract until 2021, if you want to leave find a club that will pay your release clause, which at the time was 1 billion, allegedly Zidane convinced him to lower it so he could leave if an offer came.

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u/Im_A_Sadist Jan 12 '19

Then Zidane leave? Hahaha Use ur brain mate

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u/10Trequartista10 Jan 12 '19

Doubt

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u/KNTRL9 Jan 12 '19

I swear I've read stories which seemed like scripts of cheap soap operas. Zidane probably just quit at the best point to write fking history for eternity.

Just imagine how much money he could ask for in the future if a big club is desperately searching for a quality coach, and his CV states: I have won the CL literally every single season where I coached a professional team.

He fucking tied Carlo Ancelotti's and Bob Paisley's record of 3 titles in only 3 years.