The signing of Luís Figo by Real Madrid began with a lie

The signing of Luís Figo by the Real Madrid has been one of the most controversial movements in the history of the balompié world-wide. The Portuguese signed his agreement with the merengues after dressing the elastic of the FC Barcelona by five seasons, in a transaction flag that catapulted the candidature of Florentino Pérez to the presidency in Valdebebas.

However, the documentary of Netflix titled 'The case Figo: The signing of the century', desengrana with more detenimiento some of the details that, in his moment, were not desvelados to the public light. One of them was the importance in the negotiations of José Veiga, representative of the '10', and Paulo Futre, his fellow, since they would commission to send to the 'star' luso to Santiago Bernabéu.

The ex Athletic of Madrid was the first person with which contacted Florentino to show his intentions to sign to the then captain of the Barça, that precisely found in a dispute with the managerial culé to improve his emolumentos. In this moment, Futre called to Veiga in presence of the now white president to explain him the interest of the Madrid, to what the agent answered hanging him the telephone. However, the exfutbolista did to see that it followed holding a conversation.

"Those 30 or 40 seconds that pretended to speak with Jose Veiga to think something that say were the key of all the operation", ensures Futre, the one who did not leave to happen the opportunity to close an agreement valued in six million euros by commissions that would deliver with Veiga in case that the traspaso arrived to good port. This grieve was the beginning of an operation in 'ball of snow' that would increase afterwards that the mánager signed a precontrato with a millionaire clause of incumplimiento.

Traspaso Imminent

After Figo declared publicly his love by the T-shirt blaugrana, the pair Veiga-Futre had to travel to Italy (where found on holiday) to convince him that it signed with the Madrid owing to the precontrato that had signed. This would penalise them by 30 million euros if the operation did not proceed, by what were in a big crossing.

Joan Gaspart, president of the Barcelona, ensures that Figo communicated with him asking him a banking guarantee to guarantee his continuity in the club, but the own player denied these statements in front of the cameras. Finally, the Portuguese finished signing an agreement by five campaigns with a Real Madrid that paid the 60 million euros of his clause, what meant a before and an afterwards in the history of The Classical.