It is sort of an unspoken rule that anybody associated with Real Madrid must loathe Barcelona and vice versa. So we understand it might be a little shocking to you that Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the biggest Real Madrid legends, nearly signed for Barcelona not once but twice. To be fair, though, the first time happened way before he was even linked with Real Madrid. In fact, even before he first moved to Manchester United. So, the year was 2003, Ronaldo was still in Sporting CP and FC Barcelona’s president, Joan Laporta, had just resumed his first tenure as president. Immediately he was elected, he set in motion a reconstruction process and started making big signings, you know, sort of like he is doing now.
