Real Madrid: The Success and Failure of the Galacticos Era 

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Zidane once compared the sale of makelele and purchase of Beckham as to "why would you put another layer of gold on your Bentley, if you just sold the engine"

Letting Makelele leave was crazy, he was a world class player, a workhorse.

The 2002 Copa Del Rey final was unbelievable. It was organised by the Spanish FA to be played at the Bernabeau on the day of Real's centenary, then Depor end up winning and their fans were singing "Happy Birthday to you"!

Jesus Christ. This was fucking amazing, we need a video of the 2009-2018 Real Madrid asap! Edit @2023: better idea to make it from 2009-2022. Florentino changed Real Madrid history, again.

Departure of Makelele and resignation of Del Bosque was the main reason behind the failure of Galacticos

Just imagine how hard it was for Ballack in 2002. Losing Bundesliga in the last, losing german cup, losing champions league final to Madrid and losing world cup final to Brazil.

Perez thought he was playing FIFA

Just Imagine if Casemiro let go by Real Madrid right now . Leaving Makelele is like one of the biggest mistakes. Perez's Ego sometimes hurt Real Madrid very bad.

Guti, Mcmanaman, Makelele, Salgado, Solari, Savio, Morrientes, Del Bosque. They was all huge assets to Madrid and the president didn’t understand at all

biggest takeaway from this video: Perez turned a national giant into an international brand in order to keep the club alive financially. The cost? harmony and loyalty. Especially after listening to the ESL saga I can now understand how Perez changed football forever since day 1.

wow! This should be a Netflix football series. That's the most thorough and well-researched football documentary i've watched in a long time. Please make a part 2 all the way into today's Zidane managerial era. I'd love to see more. Thank you for your hard work brother!

In 2009, sold out Sneijder and Robben with cheap price to Inter and Bayern which only to let them lead their respective club and meet at UCL final in Bernabéu that year lol

Genuine high quality, interesting content. Yet again. Keep up the good work!

how immature was letting makalele go. Madrid suffered many years for that mistake

I remember this history very well. The good thing is that Florentino has learned from his mistakes in recent years. Gaining market by performance and trophies is much solid than stars collecting (ongoing eg: PSG?), Barca 2009-2016 contributed in this change in Real Madrid, the competition between them was the best (Barcelona were beter) but the fan base grew massively for both teams. Another fact, with bad quality in defense, that Galacticos policy made the mission even harder for the club, because every team they faced back then had a huge motivation to beat Real Madrid. Thanks to legend and the true hero of that era: Iker Casillas.

To the creator of this video, I salute you. One for all football enthusiasts. You did a splendid job. Remarkable editing and covered a lot in short time. Very concise. Your views will come.

Zidane always had that eye. He was top class, but in his mind Makelele was the most important player on the pitch. Boy, was he right!

In Perez's first spell he did many mistakes regarding players but the financial side was well maintained, in his second spell he has maintained financial as well as brought many trophies to the bernabeu

The interesting thing - if Makelele and had stayed to play with Beckham, Real would have been unbeatable. This is because Beckham's workrate was always actually his hidden quality. In addition to his skill on the ball, he was defensively astute and so hardworking that he was played in the center on many occasions and was very able to cover for Madrid's deficiencies in the middle (of course not up to Makelele level). However, this took away some of the creative part of his game at Madrid. He and Makelele would have given Madrid a solid and creative core.

Never fail to amaze. Hope for Cruyff's dream team next. It is really interesting chapter.

Reciently I saw that ESPN documentary about Los Galacticos. But I can say that this video contains the same or more information than that ESPN documentary. WOW man! What a great job you did.

still get goosebumps when R9 is applauded by United fans at Old Trafford

Too much attackers but not so good defense. That squad had the potential to win three UCL in a row before Zidane became their manager

Not a Madridista but my curiosity got me interested in watching the video and the way it is presented got me hooked! This channel needs more subscribers and views.

This is not your ordinary RU-vid sports channel . I think he is sports journalist . Thanks for the hard work . It was worth to watch . I'm Madrid Fan

Fiorentino can do some crazy stuff. The man on the other hand is an absolute economical genius.

Feels wrong watching this for free

Perez laid the blueprint not just for Madrid, but for the entire footballing world. Whether you like it or not...it is what it is.

Man, as much as I want to hate Perez for all the astronomical "star" signings at the behest of a coherent team (both in the 2000's and 2010's-now), this video made me respect him soo much more, considering how efficiently he overturned the huge debt Real had, on top of lacking fan support at Bernabeu.

This video is so thoroughly researched, compiled and edited. It kinda draws you in. Quality content!

I love the research and editing quality you bring to these.

The sale of Makelele was the end of the Galactico era as a successful team. When Madrid bought Beckham to replace Makelele Zidane said "they ripped out the engine and re-painted the car."

this is amazing journalism, this is why bloggers will never matter. please continue your work, its fantastic.

by far one of the best football documentaries … just wow

Usually dont comment on youtube videos, but watched this video and took a look at your channel and amazing stuff man, felt like I was watching a full production documentary. Great stuff

I was never fully into football in general so it came to a shock to me how much drama went on behind the scenes of this club at a time where they had the DREAM team of the decade. Crazy.

Man, the entire video showed how much effort you put into researching the topic well! Plus, being a Madridista, the ending 35:42 gave me goosebumps!

Fantastic production! Extremely underrated channel! Looking forwards to all future videos. Do one about the Guardiola/ Messi era in Barcelona and one about the Cristiano Ronaldo era in Madrid!

I came across this video randomly, but I've definitely found a gem of a channel. Keep up the great work you are doing with the research especially. All videos are so well researched.

Such a high quality video, and it brought back so many feelings with Real Madrid. The ending of the video is just pitch perfect. I loved every second of this video. I hope to see more of this. Subscribed.

amazing, quality content. A real history lesson. Good job!

fantastic work here! never a dull moment with Florentino...

What an incredible video! From research to presentation to just general information - it was fantastic from beginning to end! Great work man!

My goodness... So much research and such elaborate coverage on all events of Galacticos 1.0 and controversies Great job man 🙌🏻🙌🏻 loved itt.

Very impressed by this! Incredible content and editing

the problem was the Italian league was just too good those days and when I watched them against the Italian teams, I felt they were not good enough even though they had the top players.

Those videos left me speechless such great work , the eye of details and Detail of information is just worldclass

I discovered your youtbe channel through r/soccer and i've got to say that this is truly amazing. Why watch a documentary on TV when i have this type of content on youtube?

Amazing, just a amazing man. You truly have a gift for detail. Big respect for all the work that went into this. Glad to see your videos in Arabic are getting the love they deserve, hopefully the same soon for the English versions.

Thank you Fahd. You re doing a great quality job.

the editing is crazyyyy, this was amazing

Very High Quality👏👏 Keep Going💪💪

Really good quality as per usual. One of the best football channels around

What fantastic piece of journalism. The amount of research gathered and presented. Kudos to the team.

One of the best youtube videos I have ever watched! Great video. Hope I find more videos like this on your channel.

wow this is a true journalism, I lived this era starting with Zidane's 1st season and I'm supporting Madrid since.

production is extremely well done. You deserve way more than 6k subs

This is an insanely well done video, thoroughly enjoyed throughout

A well researched, narrated and informative document man. Nice stuff

Really well constructed and educational video. Was always a huge fan of Real Madrid dispute being from the UK never knew the struggle was so real.

Too good bro, fantastic. Liked & Subscribed

I became a fan in 2002. And have bled and cried this banner and shield every day of my life since then. I cannot think of anything, other than music, which has obsessed me so much. Watching this documentary for the 10th time. 😭

Really detailed, informative and entertaining video. Keep them coming!

Perez is a businessman and as much as we would like him to appreciate club legends more nobody could deny his huge impact for the club. He brought us were Real should be as the biggest club in the world.

As a Barca fan...this was very interesting to watch, and detailed! Who made this? You'd get great success doing other clubs and recently also! Great watch....id easily watch more of these!!!

man the amount of data research and everything is just admirable. Excellent work, these documentaries are way more entertaining than a lot of bs we find in Amazon Prime or Netflix.

Very informative and well-made. Thanks!

Man you deserve more views and subs

Very nice short documentary, very informative, and well put together

The graphics are shockingly fabulous! The content is deep and convincing.

Great episode.. so much work has gone in to this.. amazing stuff!

The best documentary about Madrid.. I enjoyed it a lot as I was following Madrid in those years

Thank you for this video...it was nice to remember all those times... it was not failure in business mind but, trophies are not that much that u can call the era successful...

Shoutout to this channel for the amazing contents, detailed informations and well-described plots!! Pretty enjoyable

The most compelling music of all Soccer documentaries in all of RU-vid.. I was the stars once, I can live forever.. great song selection to deliver the feeling of greatness during the Galácticos era. Really good work on how the MCF crest slowly comes in at the beginning of the video with the music and your logo while showing the photos of Figo, Ronaldo, and Beckham. Embodies the greatness of that era of Madrid.

That team, while unbalanced, during the Del Bosque era sometimes played such beautiful football. Still remember fondly how the team danced on the field with Zidane conducting the orchestra. Although the bad 2004-2006 and the fact that the teams during CR7's era were stronger, that was an unforgettable team.

Very good job man ! an episode about the Grande Milan, Sacchi or the entire Berlusconi's era would be great :)

This is really amazing content, I had to watch all of it and it gave me more insight, thank you, you deserve more subs

I just found this channel literally and it did not disappoint me.

That was quality content, actually.

absolutely brilliant content. Hope u can do one for liverpool.

What a comprehensive informations and thoughts. This is the first time ever, i enjoyed watching youtube vid without even realizing it is already 36 mins long. You got my sub!

Quality work you did on this !!! well done

that goal by zidane to win the champions league final, a volley with his weak foot....was just insane skill. what a player

It's an amazing coincidence that Claude Makalele became the world's best player, perhaps in the history of the game, to play the 'Makalele' role. It's like he was named after the role. The only thing that could top this would be Reading striker George Puscas scoring an amazing goal to win the Puskas award.

Fantastic video! Great work!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Finally someone posting about galacticos !! your channel must be shared man superb content and editing...

Fantastic, well done!

Another magnificent video. You are an example for quality over quantity. I could repeat what I've said about your other videos in this one. Love the music choices, the research is great. I've had Sid Lowe's book on the backburner for awhile, will have to crack open. Can't wait for another video, praying for something on Napoli winning the League, maybe something on Neverkusan, or perhaps the Divine Ponytail. Whatever you do next I look forward to it. Keep up the great work, really hope this channel grows, you really deserve.

my respect having such content. when you ended with La Decima 92:48, it really touches the heart of Madridista

This was genuinely so good to watch keep up the good content man 💪🏾💪🏾

Amazing content! I see that you're relatively new and I'm gonna watch all of your videos still today! Keep up the excellent work! I hope to see Klopp's Dortmund, M. United between 96 & 2013 & Deportivo La Coruna from 99-04

I was just 2-3 year old at that time, and after all these years after watching Figo going to Inter made me emotional!!! Zidane's volley gave me goosebumps!! It was so emotional video for a Madridista, I'm a fan since 2009!! Anyways great information, great and hardwork will always be respected and appreciated!!!! Hala Madrid!!

Great video man! 👌🏾

Fantastic video mate! Loved it.

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This was amazing. I watched all of it. What programs do you use for animations and video etc. I subscribed I hope to see more content :) good job brother.

This is brilliant, great work mate 👏

Very nicely made and detailed video. I really wish you made more videos like these. Good luck✌🏽