The best way to understand the painful sports decision to sell to Cristiano to Juve for only 100 million euros (the same as we paid for Hazard!) is to take the video of the 450 goals materialized by the Portuguese in his nine years in the Bernabeu. It is a feast for the eyes. Heeled, spur, head, Chilean (¡Turin continues to applaud his work of art!), from 35 meters (the Thor’s Hammer conquered Pamplona), direct free kick, penalty, Vaseline … An inexhaustible sampler that literally leaves you with your mouth open. We have enjoyed a lot with their 450 goals and their consequent collective conquests (4 Champions, 2 Leagues, 3 Club World Cups, 3 European Super Cups, 2 King’s Cups Y 2 Spanish Super Cups) and individual (4 Ballon d’Or, 2 The Best, 3 UEFA Player of the Year, 3 Golden Boots, 3 Pichichis, 4 Champions League Top Scorer Trophies…).
All that was given to him by the Madrid to Juve in the splendor of an athlete who is already LEGEND, with capital letters. All his current achievements (and those that remain) are raising the image of the Old lady. And impoverishing that of my beloved Real Madrid, who for nine years felt indestructible in the shadow of a colossal footballer for whom the word ‘limits’ does not exist. I can never forget him. I will never understand his departure …