A story many people don’t know, is that in the summer of 2004, when Eto’o was moving from Mallorca to Barcelona, Real Madrid tried to complicate the deal.
Madrid had a clause allowing them to match 50% of Mallorca’s highest offer. When Barça bid around €21–24m, Madrid used that clause and spread rumours they would match it, not to sign Eto’o (they already had their quota of non-EU players and weren't planning to use him) but to delay and disrupt Barça’s move.
And this is where Etoo came out and strongly made this statement "I feel like a Barcelona player. The deal has been delayed, but joining Barca is my overwhelming desire."
And he even said "A club that you all know well, a club that I don't want to return to because they never showed any faith in me, are now blocking my future progress. But it will be resolved soon."
To end a long drama and join Barcelona peacefully.
Spain have a player who debuted in 2021, scored at the World Cup in 2022, won the Nations League in 2023 and has worked his way back from two major knee surgeries to make the 2026 World Cup squad. Mad to think that that player is only 21 years old.
That is Real Madrid history for you. It started from Di Stefano, they also fought Barca for Maradona.
They did everything so Barca couldn't sign Johan Cryuff.
They signed Kross after he offered himself to Barca.
They wanted to hijack Neymar so bad.
They tried everything to sign Messi. Perez offered him Blank check.
They invited Lamine father to Bernabeu VIP Box so they could Yamal.
They hijacked Vinicius, Rodrygo from Barcelona.
Barce were the first to show interet in Endrick, Rudiger.
They have been interested in every player barca wanted this summer.
Schlotterbeck
Bastoni
Dumfries
Bernardo Silva
Gvardiol
Alvarez
They have Barca Obsession disease. But guess who media portray as the Obsessed one.
The amount of culers out here who don't value or respect Messi is crazy man.
A good chunk of Barca FT accounts never watched Messi play for Barca even during the 2018/19 season.
Post covid fans are a disgrace.
Que infravalorado el hecho de que Messi le haya ganado una final de Champions a Cristiano, una final de América a Neymar y una final del mundo a Mbappe. La superioridad es gigantesca.
Ronaldo fans hate Messi because he is better than their favourite player while Messi fans hate Ronaldo because he is a hypocritical narcissistic & moronic piece of shit.
If my country is not part of the World Cup, As a barca fan I’m obviously picking 8 barca players to win it over 1 ex barca player who has already won it.
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"The referee had a note that basically said: Tchouaméni, Carreras and Huijsen can’t get a yellow card!’... Because they would have missed the second leg. I coached there so I knew how things work over there” - Mourinho on February 17th 2026