Florentino Pérez greatest labour for FC Barcelona?

Just like dodekathlon, twelve labours of Hercules, Florentino Pérez has done several great labours for FC Barcelona, I have a bit of challenge to rank them as they are all important from a FC Barcelona perspective. Here I present a poll and so let us vote for our favurite labour of Florentino Pérez, the man really deserve some kind of monument over his actions, maybe a statue at Camp Nou? I've probably missed some of his great deeds but these are the ones I can think of right now.

All above. The man is a legend, you could write a book about it.

It all started with Ronaldinho , so thanks for chosing Beckham instead of him

It was all about Ronaldinho, he brought the magic back to the Camp Nou.

Where is the option "getting rid of their best player to replace him with a € 100 million kick and rush footballer"?

nothing comes any where near the 'Ronaldinho' option

There was no "Deciding against signing Dinho for Becks " ...

Love the revisionism

It was Barca who was planning to sign Beckham and we stole Becks so you opted for Dinho... the later wasn't an option for us because in case you didn't notice we already had Zidane so there was no place for Ronaldinho and he wasn't in our radar back then .. it was your election year and you were going for the election big name signing

It's by far option no 2... firing Del Bosque.. hands down

Beast said:

There was no "Deciding against signing Dinho for Becks " ...

Love the revisionism

It was Barca who was planning to sign Beckham and we stole Becks so you opted for Dinho... the later wasn't an option for us because in case you didn't notice we already had Zidane so there was no place for Ronaldinho and he wasn't in our radar back then .. it was your election year and you were going for the election big name signing

It's by far option no 2... firing Del Bosque.. hands down

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that's exactly the point man... You guys stealing Beckham away from our reach thereby pushing us to opt for Ronaldinho as a cover up for not being able to sign the Golden Boy has been the best thing that ever happened to our club!!

Beast said:

There was no "Deciding against signing Dinho for Becks " ...

Love the revisionism

It was Barca who was planning to sign Beckham and we stole Becks so you opted for Dinho... the later wasn't an option for us because in case you didn't notice we already had Zidane so there was no place for Ronaldinho and he wasn't in our radar back then .. it was your election year and you were going for the election big name signing

It's by far option no 2... firing Del Bosque.. hands down

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Florentino wanted to buy Ronaldinho after buying Beckham, the idea was to let Ronaldinho stay in PSG one more season and then bring him over to Real Madrid. Beckham was more marketable so they went for him first and thereby gave Sandro Rosell the edge he needed to land the deal with Ronaldinho.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3017556.stm

From Florentino himself

Una de las cuestiones más sorprendentes ha sido la revelación de los fichajes que intentó y no pudo llevar a cabo para el Real Madrid. Me vienen a la memoria Vieira y Totti, comenzó afirmando, antes de revelar que con Ronaldinho dudamos, pero trajimos a Beckham, y que Neymar también está entre esos grandes jugadores.

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/fu...do-fichar-Vieira-Totti-Ronaldinho-Neymar.html

Florentino elaborating on Ronaldinho:

How ugly is Ronaldinho? There was no point buying him; it wasn't worth it. he's so ugly that he'd sink you as a brand. Between Beckham and Ronaldinho, i'd go for Beckham a hundred times. Just look how handsome Beckham is, the class he has, the image. The whole of Asia has fallen in love with us because of Beckham. Ronaldinho is too ugly.

Xtroverto said:

Florentino elaborating on Ronaldinho:

How ugly is Ronaldinho? There was no point buying him; it wasn't worth it. he's so ugly that he'd sink you as a brand. Between Beckham and Ronaldinho, i'd go for Beckham a hundred times. Just look how handsome Beckham is, the class he has, the image. The whole of Asia has fallen in love with us because of Beckham. Ronaldinho is too ugly.

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Um, really!?

Xtroverto said:

Florentino elaborating on Ronaldinho:

How ugly is Ronaldinho? There was no point buying him; it wasn't worth it. he's so ugly that he'd sink you as a brand. Between Beckham and Ronaldinho, i'd go for Beckham a hundred times. Just look how handsome Beckham is, the class he has, the image. The whole of Asia has fallen in love with us because of Beckham. Ronaldinho is too ugly.

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And then he went on to make a chimp the costliest footballer ever

I'd say that was unnecessary, Aryagorn.

I see your point, but no need to make fun of people's appearances.

Ghost said:

I'd say that was unnecessary, Aryagorn.

I see your point, but no need to make fun of people's appearances.

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The honourary president of the most successful club in the world has done a similar stupid thing... i am but a mere mortal man

Xtroverto said:

Florentino wanted to buy Ronaldinho after buying Beckham, the idea was to let Ronaldinho stay in PSG one more season and then bring him over to Real Madrid. Beckham was more marketable so they went for him first and thereby gave Sandro Rosell the edge he needed to land the deal with Ronaldinho.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3017556.stm

From Florentino himself

Una de las cuestiones más sorprendentes ha sido la revelación de los fichajes que intentó y no pudo llevar a cabo para el Real Madrid. Me vienen a la memoria Vieira y Totti, comenzó afirmando, antes de revelar que con Ronaldinho dudamos, pero trajimos a Beckham, y que Neymar también está entre esos grandes jugadores.

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/fu...do-fichar-Vieira-Totti-Ronaldinho-Neymar.html

Florentino elaborating on Ronaldinho:

How ugly is Ronaldinho? There was no point buying him; it wasn't worth it. he's so ugly that he'd sink you as a brand. Between Beckham and Ronaldinho, i'd go for Beckham a hundred times. Just look how handsome Beckham is, the class he has, the image. The whole of Asia has fallen in love with us because of Beckham. Ronaldinho is too ugly.

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First one is a claim by a club president who wanted to sell his star player to the highest bidder... you can easily see in the second link you provided Perez says
with Ronaldinho there was DOUBT but we bought Beckham , no how you would describe the word "Doubt " with a player ? sure not "interested nor "Wanted to sign "
every year we are linked with 30 players and half of them their clubs says we want to buy them.. same way any club will do
Zidane was Perez Hen that lay gold eggs , not only this was in his prime as a player with us winning a CL a year before and a league that same summer .. so it made zero sense to buy Ronaldinho who basically occupy the same spot at best as an AM because the two fronts were Raul & Ronaldo both untouchables
I could believe Perez may have wanted put hands for the future but certainly not that summer

As for the last paragraph which you provided without even a link i think it's preposterous you make such a low remark about a player face like that and claim it's Perez...
Grow up ... you can't go that far in faking stories

Beast said:

First one is a claim by a club president who wanted to sell his star player to the highest bidder... you can easily see in the second link you provided Perez says
with Ronaldinho there was DOUBT but we bought Beckham , no how you would describe the word "Doubt " with a player ? sure not "interested nor "Wanted to sign "
every year we are linked with 30 players and half of them their clubs says we want to buy them.. same way any club will do
Zidane was Perez Hen that lay gold eggs , not only this was in his prime as a player with us winning a CL a year before and a league that same summer .. so it made zero sense to buy Ronaldinho who basically occupy the same spot at best as an AM because the two fronts were Raul & Ronaldo both untouchables
I could believe Perez may have wanted put hands for the future but certainly not that summer

As for the last paragraph which you provided without even a link i think it's preposterous you make such a low remark about a player face like that and claim it's Perez...
Grow up ... you can't go that far in faking stories

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This is kind of pointless really, you were obviously not around back during Ronaldinho-gate, there were daily stories in Spanish TV, MARCA and AS on Real Madrids negociations with PSG over Ronaldinho, Florentino himself flew to Paris for the negociations with PSG, Ronaldinho flew to Madrid with his agent to negociate his contract. L'Equipe ran a number of articles about Ronaldinhos possible transfer to Real Madrid.

In fact, Florentino not only helped FC Barcelona land Ronaldinho on the last day of the transfer window by insisting on having him stay in PSG, but he also dribbled away Manchester United who was the first club attempting to sign Ronaldinho. Florentino effectively helped FC Barcelona because against United they could never have landed Ronaldinho, it was only because of Florentinos atempt to have Ronaldinho stay in PSG one more season that Rosell could lure him over to FC Barcelona, had it not been for Florentino trying to sign Ronaldinho, he would have signed to Manchester United 100%, FC Barcelona had nothing to offer, they played UEFA cup and was not even the 2:nd best team in Spain back then.