The day after the defeat of Gerland, Real Madrid's president, Calderón, appeared in Barcelona with several directors while Bernabéu was caught in the whirlpool of public opinion.
This immediately attracted the attention of the media from both camps in Spain to Catalonia.
News that shook the entire Spanish football world came.
Real Madrid and Barcelona had formed an "alliance"!
The reason why this news had an earthquake effect and even had a huge impact within the European football world was that the two clubs had a very high status in Europe.
Starting from when Florentino took away Figo from Camp Nou when he came to power, in the past six years, Real Madrid and Barcelona had not had any official communication!
The last high-level summit between the two clubs could be traced back to the era of Nunez and Carlos more than 20 years ago. At that time, it was FIFA's president, Havelange, who facilitated the talks.
According to El Mundo Deportivo, after Calderón came to power, he had expressed his intention to ease the tension between the two clubs to Barcelona. Barcelona temporarily put the matter on hold because of the interim presidential election. Now, the two clubs had come together.
Calderón had offended Arsenal, AC Milan, Chelsea, and many other top European clubs in the past summer.
Now he was repairing his relationship with the European powerhouses. His first stop was Barcelona. The factors involved were intricate. The core interest that made the two clubs willing to sit together and form an "alliance" was to reach a consensus and deal with UEFA and FIFA on the same footing. Some of the clubs had substantial interests.
Secondly, there was also the involvement of sponsors, which was the fundamental factor that facilitated the realization of this high-level summit.
In addition to the communication on the diplomatic and public relations issues, the two clubs also reached a preliminary consensus on the competition, such as no longer poaching each other's "corners" and changing from "enemies" to "friends" in the player transfer market.
However, the grudge of more than a hundred years could not be resolved so easily. The significance of the "posture" was far greater than the actual effect.
The summit attracted attention. After more than three hours of communication at Delorma restaurant, when the two club presidents walked out of the restaurant together, something embarrassing happened for Calderón.
In Barcelona's territory, it was obvious that they were all fans of Barcelona. Some fans shouted, "Calderón, learn from Laporta and stop doing ridiculous things!"
The fan's words caused a burst of laughter around him.
Calderón forced a smile and turned a deaf ear.
After shaking hands with Laporta again, he got into the car and left with the accompanying directors. Laporta was interviewed by the Catalan media in a high-profile manner, talking loudly about what he had discussed with Calderón.
He even said that he had taught Calderón some governing strategies.
"My advice to him was: Leave all the troublesome problems to your subordinates and let go of your power."
The Barcelona fans who were watching Laporta from the sidelines were slightly complacent.
Just like how Laporta's pointers in front of Calderón were a kind of victory and even made the other party bow down to him.
Calderón sat in the car with a gloomy expression. Suddenly, he punched the car window!
He chose this time to come to Barcelona because Real Madrid lost at the Gerland Stadium last night. In order to prevent the team from being in the teeth of the storm, he made himself the focus of the media.
For him, there was no consideration of whether to fire or trust Capello.
Because he could not be like Florentino, who could change managers every two or three days. Secondly, who could fire Capello?
How many top managers in Europe who were more famous than Capello but were still idle at home?
There was a top manager who might be able to come back to lead Real Madrid, and that was the former meritorious manager, Bosque!
However, in the background of not choosing to let Bosque come back and choosing Capello, it was obviously unrealistic for Calderón to contact Bosque now.
Calderón never questioned Capello's ability. He was now just worried about whether Capello could manage the locker room well!
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Qin Xiong rested at home for a day. He did not watch any news about football. Instead, he spent a warm day at home with Sylvia. It was as if his newly bought villa had really become another world, a safe haven that belonged to him.
After the break, it was time to prepare for the weekend's game against Real Sociedad.
Driving to the training base, there were still a large number of reporters waiting for him outside the training base, hoping that he would respond to the incident of yelling at Capello at the Gerland Stadium.
Qin Xiong walked into the training base in silence. He changed his clothes and went to the training ground.
The sun was shining brightly in Madrid, but for some reason, there was a bleak atmosphere on the training ground.
Capello certainly would not take the initiative to talk to Qin Xiong about what happened in the game.
How to talk?
Why did you yell at me?
How embarrassing would that be?
But how to deal with this matter was also very difficult for Capello.
His authority was being challenged!
However, in the past three official games, Qin Xiong had handed in three goals and three assists.
Purely from a competitive point of view, Qin Xiong's role and contribution were the highest in the team!
Capello could not abandon Qin Xiong. That would appear to be a personal grudge and would be too unprofessional.
What made Capello feel gratified was that for the time being, the suppression of the Brazilian gang had achieved some results.
Ronaldo was actively training to restore his condition. In the past few days, he averaged more than three goals in the midfield in the training games. Even the media thought that Ronaldo was on his way back to his peak. Ronaldo himself also declared that he would score 30 goals for Real Madrid this season.
The outside world expected Robinho to be aggressive to face the challenge and compete for the main position with the ambition of Reyes.
However, Robinho had submitted to Capello's' tyrannical power '.
During training, when Robinho was stopped by Capello once when he handled the ball, he was convinced by Capello after a few words of protest. All that was left was to nod and obey Capello's instructions, which made Capello very satisfied.
As long as he did not speak or throw a tantrum, Capello would not be particularly harsh on him.
Cicinho's agent had already announced to the public that Cicinho would soon leave Real Madrid.
Emerson was one of Capello's direct subordinates, so he naturally listened to Capello's every word.
Capello came to Bernabéu with an iron fist and a tough ruling policy. After more than a month, the suppression of the Brazilian gang began to show results.
In terms of the way he managed the Spanish gang, his appeasement did not seem to be particularly successful.
In particular, the leader, Raúl, was frequently substituted in the past three games. Capello was about to touch Raúl's bottom line.
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