Sentences with phrase «by galacticos»
The same man who had spurned golden chances in Argentina's last three major finals, who had missed a penalty that would have put Napoli in the Champions League last year, now commanded a transfer fee bettered only by Galacticos Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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Real Madrid have been tipped to sign two Galacticos this summer by Guillem Balague, and he has a five - man shortlist of who they might sign too.
Florentino Perez, president of the club from 2000, still defends his signing policy, widely referred to as the «Galacticos Policy» by the English press and rather derisively referred to as «Zidane y Pavones» by the Spanish press after the best and the worst aspects of the Real Madrid side after Perez became the club top dog.
During his playing career, Zidane was one of Real's key «Galacticos», a label given to the expensive players signed by Perez during his first spell as president in the early to mid-2000s.
At first, it seemed that the baseless bombast of the year before had given way to a more thorough, organised approach to recruitment, at least until the rather more impulsive signings of Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao — players dubbed as «Galacticos» by the media.
The Galacticos cheered up the visiting fans by turning on the giant screen to telecast a repeat of the Spurs come - from - behind victory over Arsenal in the Premier League.
Previous reports of leaving Dortmund only for the Galacticos have been denied by the 27 - year - old, which appeared to open the door for him to leave Germany for Manchester City in the Premier League but nothing has come of those claims earlier in the summer.
After the game, the Press speculated about Ronaldo heading to Real as one of Perez's new galacticos, though United took the world by surprise when they announced that a transfer for a world - record  # 80m had been agreed in early June.