When Florentino Perez won the Real Madrid elections in the summer of 2000 while promising to bring Luis Figo from Barcelona, a new era had begun.
Was it a story of success in transforming a club into a global brand?
Or was it a story of failure in how to build a balanced team to compete on the field?
Did the business ambitions exceed the footballing goals?
This is the story of the success and failure of the Galacticos era.
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Excellent reporting.
Great video, congratulations. Now do some research about Florentino and "Castor" gate.
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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"
Look at what Chelsea did when they got Makelele and then Mourinho the next year. Yet Florentino thought he could easily be replaced.
Makelele was more like the thing that keep the team balanced and safe from any possibility of things gone terribly wrong. They can still win with Ronaldo and Zidane...providing they didn't get injured or went off form. Ronaldo was injury prone and out of shape, and Zidane had dry spells during his twilight years. That Madrid team can win and lose against the same team in 4-1 due to how bad the defensive midfield and central defenders were.
@Real Deal look into it. He did say that
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.
Yes please
Why 2009-2018? The only thing defining that period each year is ronaldo, but the club itself has changed drastically - in style, management, players. There's nothing interesting defining the club during those years. 2009-2013 or 2014-2018 would make much more sense and would be more enjoyable. If you want a doco about 2009-2018 just watch something bout ronaldo's time in madrid.
@@jonathan13co that team had many great players lol
@@billybob4159 That "team" wasn't continuous throughout. The fact you think there are enough correlations between mourinho and pellegrini's madrid( with ozil, di maria, alonso, kaka, higuain, pepe etc' etc) with ancelotti and zidane's (modric, kroos, bale, james, varane, isco etc) to justify calling it an identifinyg, single period is a joke. You're either clueless or just started supporting madrid when ronaldo arrived and stopped as soon as he left. Also that's without mentioning the extreme playstyle differences each manager brought along or ronaldo's changing playstyle as he aged.
You only want this because of Cristiano. There are already documentaries of Cristiano's time at Madrid...
Letting Makelele leave was crazy, he was a world class player, a workhorse.
Perez always ruins eras at Madrid
@@CSeyoum and creates better ones
@@leeking6939 nah, not really Ronaldo was created at United, he just got even better at Real
Before Kante there was Makelele🤣🤣🤣
@@leeking6939 perez didnt even want cristiano
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"!
😂😂😂😂😂
cumpleaños felizzzz
Lol
Football is toxic 🤣🤣🤣
tragic !
Departure of Makelele and resignation of Del Bosque was the main reason behind the failure of Galacticos
Very true indeed. I still think that del bosque (even though he had his short comings) still had the most balanced line up...after him it all became a joke
@@MatteoRomanelli-kl9fb Makelele was the main engine of that team and Del Bosque was the same manager who brought golden days in Spanish National team's history
Del Bosque never resigned. His contract expired and Perez decided to not renew it...
@@JosesAmazingWorlds it was Perez's mistake
@@cr7gaming654 totally agree, but just clarifying a point often misrepresented
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.
I bet he was crying a lot in his Ferrari
@@capoamaralMoney is an answer, but not always the right one.
Neverkusen
Guti, Mcmanaman, Makelele, Salgado, Solari, Savio, Morrientes, Del Bosque. They was all huge assets to Madrid and the president didn’t understand at all
Goes to show just how underappreciated warriors like them are to a team's success. The golden barca of the late 00s wouldn't be the same without guys like puyol, busquets, Abidal, pedro and mascherano doing the dirty work. Without Roy Keane, Schmeichel, Scholes, neville, solksjaer and later Vidic, Park Ji-sung, Carrick and Ferdinand, Man Utd would never had gone as far as it did. Even the recent galacticos, they wouldn't have won 3 UCL without ramos, pepe, Carvajal, Casemiro, Modric and the bench guys like vazquez.
Redondo was the first mistake the rest was domino effect
Espically Guti, Makelele, Morientes
@@blanco7726 Redondo was sold due to Figo transfer
@@ElricCantona82 dude ramos, modric are big brand.
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.
Well theres not much to ruin right now, but without him the UCLs in the last years wouldnt have been possible
@@adhx7506 that’s why Atalanta will knock out Real Madrid on upcoming Tuesday, because Casemiro is suspended for the game.
@@hsafootballworld1321 Well Valverde is gonna play as a CDM. Problem solved.
@You're Not That Guy why u copy pasting the same comment everywhere
@@hsafootballworld1321 lol It won’t happen
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.
Spot on. He's the greatest football president in history.
This era is 101% successful in terms of maintaining the financial health of the club for a long time. Forget about the titles and accolades, they managed to earn fandom from budding football enthusiasts from all over the world through those big name players. No other club comes even close in the number of fans and overall respect they earn from the football community worldwide. There is no la decima or even the hat-trick ucl without perez's work done throughout this period.
@@andrewsakkaraHala Madrid !!!
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!
What Netflix🤔🤔
To be fair there are only negatives with Real from 2006-2020, like don't get me wrong they won 4 UCL's as well as a memorable La Decima (hope that's spelt right), but they weren't that good of a team in terms of La Liga, and their teams and playing style was basically the same (having players like Ozil, Di Maria, Higuain, Benzema, Ronaldo etc. for José and Benitez, and then Kroos, Modric, Bale, Varane, James etc. for Ancelotti and Zidane) I mean the best highlight of those years is Cristiano Ronaldo and there's already a Netflix documentary on that. Just sayin.
Sonnic, srry but you no
Indeed
Lies again? Get Educated Smart Bundesliga
Perez thought he was playing FIFA
Woodward today
I mean, he kinda did
He was playing like it was FIFA before it was a thing. That's the trick in success, being one of the first to do something revolutionary.
@@reecemesser no
@@sherwinpeters7397 Galactico perez: splash money, no ucl Perez with Ronaldo: 3 ucl, dont give Ronaldo payrise he promised
Genuine high quality, interesting content. Yet again. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
Next,galacticos part II
I just bumped into this channel and addicted
how immature was letting makalele go. Madrid suffered many years for that mistake
You really think makelete absence had that much impact on the team ?
@@reinaldomanuel8488 Ask Zidane
@@reinaldomanuel8488 Boy....!! Hurt so bad that they had Beckham or Figo playing center midfielder just cause Florentino wanted all the galácticos playing no matter what. Now imagine Figo or Beckham playing center midfielder when all they had to do was resign Makelele. Those were some dark days for us Madrid fans.
@aftrecbjhxjnvnj yuuxscxdvhbb True. They tried with the likes of Gago, Emerson, Diarra, all of them failed but then came Xabi Alonso who at least with him, they managed to win the CL after 12 years.
@@accountuser5588 In addition to this madrid lacked real world class CB as well especially to fill hierro's place.
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
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.
Appreciate it !
@@balon-english Damn right
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!
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
no all player of this team are not in his prime and milan was bigger this time
@@blazeoriginal4625 And also, there were many players in the same position, and a lot of them were not Real Madrid material, I mean they didn't really fit into the system, the league, and the style of the team.
still get goosebumps when R9 is applauded by United fans at Old Trafford
Game recognizes game 💪🏼
crazy how so many amazing talents get injured, become unfit, etc, and eventually get pushed to the wayside as they can no longer perform, but this guy is the only one that scores 3 goals before getting subbed out. legendary stuff
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.
It could have been 442 with Makelele, Beckham, Figo, and Zidane at MF and Ronaldo and Raul at ST.
Never fail to amaze. Hope for Cruyff's dream team next. It is really interesting chapter.
Thanks for watching!
He kinda already did... Go down in the channel
The luckiest and most overrated team ever. You Will see It if theres a doco
@@bangoagroupmadrid1 Agreed !!! Cruyff arrogant as always thought he could waltz through the same AC Milan side that had been to 4 finals in 6 seasons , because of their “negative” football. Little did he know he was in for a nasty shock .
@@princesofthepower3690 Also won three leagues in a row because Madrid And Depor choked in the last match when they were leaders
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
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.
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.
ESPN only shows anti Madrid stuff
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.
He sucks, he ruined football. He started the trend of turning clubs into "all about money" soul-less companies
Both Perez and Berlusconi were truly game changers in the world of football. Who took Madrid and AC Milan to new echelons
Berlusconi was one of the first. Perez was the final transformation.
Applause for the “Z” emphasis in 24:01 😂
Fiorentino can do some crazy stuff. The man on the other hand is an absolute economical genius.
well...I don't think all he is doing is legal but look...you won't see that on the media.
@@joaoreidopalao are any of the owners at the big clubs clean?
@@joaoreidopalao mate to cant make a club big if u r clean
This is not your ordinary KZhead sports channel . I think he is sports journalist . Thanks for the hard work . It was worth to watch . I'm Madrid Fan
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.
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."
Feels wrong watching this for free
I love the research and editing quality you bring to these.
This video is so thoroughly researched, compiled and edited. It kinda draws you in. Quality content!
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.
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!
Hopefully those two topics will be covered in the future after I cover some other teams. Appreciate the compliment 👍🏼
@@balon-english please, guardiola era and cr7 era at madrid... But we all know that messi era is continuing 😇
@@balon-english man city 2008-2012 pleaseee🤩
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.
Absolutely true but I just wanted to add that Madrid also won the title of the Club of the Century so we already had been the biggest club in the world
by far one of the best football documentaries … just wow
this is amazing journalism, this is why bloggers will never matter. please continue your work, its fantastic.
amazing, quality content. A real history lesson. Good job!
the editing is crazyyyy, this was amazing
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.
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?
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
What an incredible video! From research to presentation to just general information - it was fantastic from beginning to end! Great work man!
Really good quality as per usual. One of the best football channels around
Much appreciated!
Too good bro, fantastic. Liked & Subscribed
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!
This was genuinely so good to watch keep up the good content man 💪🏾💪🏾
My goodness... So much research and such elaborate coverage on all events of Galacticos 1.0 and controversies Great job man 🙌🏻🙌🏻 loved itt.
production is extremely well done. You deserve way more than 6k subs
Appreciate it Tim !
Man you deserve more views and subs
This is brilliant, great work mate 👏
This is an insanely well done video, thoroughly enjoyed throughout
Very High Quality👏👏 Keep Going💪💪
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.
Thank you Fahd. You re doing a great quality job.
This is really amazing content, I had to watch all of it and it gave me more insight, thank you, you deserve more subs
Very impressed by this! Incredible content and editing
Getting them to sign over image rights is insane. Like Don King having fighters sign blank papers then writing the contract. And Zidane was underpaid even for those times.
What he was being paid was alot of money then.Individual image rights was still a novel thing in football back then.
Now players are refusing to leave clubs due to image rights (Dybala, for example)
Great video man! 👌🏾
High quality content. Keep them coming.
That ending 35:44 pure goosebumps and put a smile on my face #SR4 🤍 the rise of real madrid 🔥
Same, really wanted to know the original clip
fantastic work here! never a dull moment with Florentino...
Fantastic video mate! Loved it.
Quality work you did on this !!! well done
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.
Much appreciated!
wow this is a true journalism, I lived this era starting with Zidane's 1st season and I'm supporting Madrid since.
A well researched, narrated and informative document man. Nice stuff
Really detailed, informative and entertaining video. Keep them coming!
It would be nice seeing an episode of Perez return to Real Madrid. A story focused on Real Madrid in the Ronaldo era.
makelele + del bosque leaving was key. and also madrid were doing well when R9 was firing. but once he got injured at the crucial moments, madrid crumbled. just goes to show how good R9 was despite not being at his supposed peak.
@Johnng Fred the thing is he was very decisive for not only club but country. There are many players who don't turn up for countries
@Johnng Fred agreed! for club i would say iniesta was more consistent. but that being said, zidane was more of a game winner than iniesta, which is why i would put him above don andres haha
nice work my guy 💪🏾 great content
Finally someone posting about galacticos !! your channel must be shared man superb content and editing...
That was quality content, actually.
Ballack has to be the unluckiest player of all time
2 ucls, euro, wc final losses... At least he was a marvelous talent
At least he won the premier league and fa cup
@@chibuezeunachukwu1162 yea but to lose 2 UCL finals and a WC final must have been devastating. Those two trophies are the best you could ever win
Yea really unlucky, he also lost a Bundesliga title with Leverkusen on goal difference on the last day of a season. Top player he was⚽️👍🏼
@@PYTHONCANDY its not UNLUCK. Ballack was just not good enough. Others were better. Ronaldo and Zidane were better and so they defeated him.
Great video, really well edited & looked professional!
I just discovered you and I have already seen all your videos. Keep going!! Here you have a subscriber 💪🏼😎
Incredible quality ! Keep up the good work !
Thanks a lot!
Very good job man ! an episode about the Grande Milan, Sacchi or the entire Berlusconi's era would be great :)
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.
Very informative and well-made. Thanks!
Fantastic, well done!
Many thanks!
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!!!
This video is so well made. Subbed!!!
Great episode.. so much work has gone in to this.. amazing stuff!
For me, the Galacticos Era was a beautiful and interesting tactic project, but the big mistake was when Real has sold excellent players like Makelele, Celades, Geremi, Morientes, because a great team needs various types of player. So for replace, for example, Beckam, Figo or Zidane when they don't play well, it's important to have players with good quality like Makelele and others, instead it's no good the ''zidanes y pavones'' because young players of Real like Pavon, Minambres, Ivan Campo, Helguera, no are read to win important leagues!
Ivan Campo and Helguera wasn’t a youngster
because of money cant afford
A very nice report. I wish a report on the best deal in the history of football, which is the deal of Cristiano Ronaldo, the best in history. I win Madrid thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Hey great vid bro keep it up. Really enjoy it. 10/10
What a great documentary ... Absolutely loved the efforts takenby you 💯
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.
I use the whole Adobe suite. Programs like Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop. Thanks for watching!
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.
What fantastic piece of journalism. The amount of research gathered and presented. Kudos to the team.
This is a incredible video, great great work . I love it.
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.
The best documentary about Madrid.. I enjoyed it a lot as I was following Madrid in those years
Shoutout to this channel for the amazing contents, detailed informations and well-described plots!! Pretty enjoyable
Yes thanks for the awesome upload!
Glad you enjoy it!
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.
Appreciate the continued support Darragh ❤
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.
One of the best youtube videos I have ever watched! Great video. Hope I find more videos like this on your channel.