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Albano had no luck at Real Madrid. In 1996 he signed for Racing de Avellaneda and his good performances earned him Lorenzo Sanz to hire him in 1999. He hardly had any minutes, among other things because he ran into Illgner and Casillas. He went to Valladolid, where he played six seasons at a good level.
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diogo
He belongs to a time when Florentino went into a tailspin with his decisions until he got off the ship in 2006. Diogo came from River Plate. He always left the locker room with his mate in hand, but on the pitch he never showed signs of being the player he was supposed to be. Above all because of how Madrid had defined him in the statement announcing his signing: “One of the most consolidated young values in world football. Fixed in his team and in River Plate, at just twenty years old he has taken over the right side , although his technical quality makes him a versatile player who can occupy different positions on the pitch”.
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Woodgate
After arriving and being unemployed for more than a year due to his constant injuries, he made his debut against Athletic with the misfortune of scoring an own goal and being sent off. Woodgate was, in any case, one of the most promising centre-backs in Europe when Florentino’s Madrid signed him for €18m from Leeds. “I know how Bale feels, I lived a nightmare at Madrid,” the central defender recently said in an exclusive interview with AS.
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Spasic
He was a rocky Yugoslav central defender, but with a small waist. The Camp Nou came to chant his name after an own goal was scored. The game was tied. He played 22 games in 90-91, before spending a happy season in Osasuna, with no less pressure than at Real Madrid.
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Coentrao
A pity, because he also pointed out good manners. Every minute he played cost Madrid more than 50,000 euros. Each minute!. And he has not played more than 32% of the possible since he arrived at the entity. And that the first two seasons, with Mourinho, if he had very good performances in Madrid. So much so, that he started ahead of Marcelo in important games.
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Gravensen
Probably the strangest player who has passed through the ranks of Madrid. He did not want to medicate when he was injured by a strange belief. He joked without any taste in front of his companions. One of his previous team, Everton, even had his genitals resting on his head during a preparatory session. In the field, he did not stop yelling at his teammates, it did not matter if they were galactic. If Madrid would be adrift in that 2005-06 that Madrid played more than 40 games.
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Paul Garcia
It came in the same package as Diogo, but this one for five million euros and from Osasuna. Also always with mate in hand, the Uruguayan was overtaken by Madrid, or came to a team that was very difficult to lead. He was from 2005 to 2008 before going on loan to Celta and Murcia to finally go to Greece to finish his career.
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Faubert
Another unsolved mystery. Madrid, at the time of Ramón Calderón, paid 1.5 million for his transfer to West Ham. A band man was needed and they saw the solution in the Frenchman. He was totally off point. The first day he arrived he already visited the Txistu. He fell asleep once on the bench… He only played 60 minutes in the Madrid shirt. Now he is pursuing his professional career in Indonesia.
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Elvir Balkhic
Born in Sarajevo. Bosnian. Lorenzo Sanz set his sights on him when he was playing for the Turkish Fenerbahce and paid more than 2,500 million pesetas (15 million euros) for him. He was on loan at Rayo with whom he formed an attacking pair with Bolo (Bolo and Baljic). But there was also Bolic. But they will be amazed to learn that Baljic is now triumphing in the world of melodic song in his country, in the Julio Iglesias style.
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Cassano
Antonio Cassano arrived in the winter market of 2006, with the intention of making a good second part of the season to be able to go to the World Cup in Germany. He signed for six and a half seasons, but he was just 18 months in which he participated in just 29 games scoring four goals. He drew more attention to his life off the pitch than on it. Years later he would admit it: “I would have deserved to be killed-It was unbearable.”
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Drenthe
Madrid paid 14 million euros to Feyenoord for this eccentric left winger who in Madrid ended up playing most of the time as a winger. It was because just before joining Madrid, Schuster saw him win the U-19 European Championship playing in that position with the Netherlands. And he broke it. But in Madrid it was a bluff. The occasion that failed against Barcelona after a great gallop is still well remembered. This was from Ramón Calderón. After a tour of different teams, he has found a place in what has always been his great passion… Rap.
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With the signings that have been a fiasco for Real Madrid, an eleven can be formed. Some, such as Diogo, Coentrao, Gravesen, Pablo García or Woodgate, bear the signature of Florentino Pérez. Others, like Drenthe and Faubert, Calderón’s…
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