The Baby Galacticos: Real Madrid's new plan for world domination

The times of Florentino Perez racing to purchase football's greatest stars are everything except over - presently, the exchange strategy is particularly centered around future greats

In the no so distant past, the beginning of each mid year move window was welcomed with fear by Europe's greatest clubs. The sun's arrival would be joined by the opening of a huge checkbook as Real Madrid scoured their adversaries for the most recent Galactico to add to their assortment.

It didn't make a difference if the reluctant merchants were AC Milan or Juventus, Manchester United or Liverpool; no one was sheltered from the Merengues' money loaded claws. Not by any means chief adversaries Barcelona could oppose, broadly losing star Portuguese playmaker Luis Figo to the capital and welcome his following visit to Camp Nou by hurling a pig's head at their previous top pick.

Twenty years on from the beginning of Perez's first term in office in 2000, the wily old manager cuts as imposing a figure as ever in the Spanish capital. Be that as it may, while cash for new ability keeps on streaming, the objectives have changed.

Any semblance of Ronaldo (both Brazilian and Portuguese), David Beckham and Roberto Carlos are never again the club's exchange need. Presently, from Spain to Brazil and over the globe, potential Galactiquitos, or Baby Galacticos, are being watched with intrigue and gobbled up with ever-expanding recurrence.

The strategy can't novel. As some time in the past as 1996 Madrid swooped for high school Argentine siblings Esteban and Nicolas Cambiasso, while Perez himself veered from his severe Galactico strategy from 2005 onwards to sign promising Under-23 gifts, for example, Sergio Ramos, Gonzalo Higuain, Fernando Gago and Robinho, among others.

It was not until the late spring of 2013, notwithstanding, that a genuine move in the president's reasoning could really be seen.

Madrid's inability to sign then-Santos sensation Neymar bothered as an indefensible oversight for a club that has consistently prided itself, from Di Stefano and Puskas during the 1950s to Cristiano Ronaldo right around six decades later, on reaping football's best. Barcelona demonstrated progressively exhaustive in their exploring, slicker in dealings and maybe all the more ready to oblige the luxurious solicitations produced using all gatherings engaged with that infamous arrangement.

"We talked, we saw what the exchange was coming to and we understood that it would have harmed our biological system," Perez disclosed to Punta Pelota of the bombed talks in 2013. All things considered, the president sent two emissaries to Brazil at the eleventh hour in an unprofitable endeavor to change the present Paris Saint-Germain man's psyche.

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