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Luis Figo, accompanied by the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, and Alfredo Di Stefano, during his presentation as a new Real Madrid player.

The best moment of

(Netflix) occurs when José Veiga (agent) and Paulo Futre (intermediary) begin to think that Figo will not go to Madrid in any way, even when Florentino Pérez has already won the elections.

And they will have to assume (the two of them? The three? Only Veiga?) the 30 million euros of the clause included in the pre-contract.

They panic and show up at the hotel in Sardinia where Figo is spending the holidays with his wife and his daughter;

at nine in the morning Veiga calls from the lobby and Figo says: “But what are these doing here?”.

And, when they go to the beach in the afternoon with their family, the two follow them in suits and throwing their ties over their shoulders.

That image of two rich men (one of them, a football legend) dragging their shoes in the sand, sweating the fat, chasing a married couple on vacation, in order to collect their commission (3.5 million Veiga, 1.5 Futre ; Futre says that he got six from Florentino Pérez) is the one that best represents the spirit of the documentary.

Money and lies, many, some of them cheerfully admitted (Futre, De la Morena).

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The story begins when Veiga, after hanging up the phone to Futre at the beginning, discovers that there is a commission for them and activates all his interest: a representative who seeks the best for his client.

It ends when Veiga and Futre tell Figo that, if he does not go to Madrid, he will have to face the payment of 30 million euros.

I mean, and this is not said in the documentary but it was told at the time: they go to jail.

So this is the story of

: how José Veiga goes from being Figo's agent to being Florentino's agent, and dedicates his efforts not to convincing a club that they want their player, but to convincing their player to that you have to go to a club.

And Figo?

He said twice in the Barcelona press (the last one two days before the Madrid elections, and posing with the Barça shirt) that he was not moving from the Catalan club: "It is an irrevocable decision."

I have the impression that even that helped Florentino Pérez, who comes out confident, happy and smoking in the images recovered by the documentary: how many would have voted for him to see how he came out of that, either with the Portuguese at the Santiago Bernabéu or by paying them the membership fees.

It is not known what is more distressing, Figo's troubles (now yes, now not) or Veiga&Futre's desperation.

Some image of the famous pre-contract signed by Veiga and Florentino Pérez is missing, and of which Veiga says he signed at Figo's request while Figo says he did not.

If Figo is not in that pre-contract and Veiga does not have powers, why should the player bother with him?

Do you want to tell us that Figo 'sacrificed' himself for his and Futre's agent, that the only thing they wanted from this story was his money?

With his wife on the phone telling him not to leave Barcelona and him hanging up and saying that it's okay, that he's not leaving, in the end what Figo says is that he thought of himself, he thought of his career, and he thought of the mistreatment From Barcelona.

Version endorsed by Florentino Pérez, who says that what was happening, simply,

is that Figo wanted to play for Madrid.

An idyll too simple and perfect for 20 years later to keep going around.

Then there is, of course, Barça.

The treatment of Figo, Figo's contract, the ridiculous improvement proposals.

“Figo was number one and he was paid as if he were the seventh”, said Johan Cruyff at that time, who also gave his opinion on the price of the record transfer, 60 million euros: “Very cheap”.

Cheap 60 for Madrid, very expensive 30 for Veiga

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