CWhen Valdano He was standing at the head of the bench of Real Madrid Be clear about which player you would like to integrate into your team: Fernando Redondo. In just two years, he took Tenerife from the fight for permanence to compete for Europe and Valdano wanted him in his team.
But his arrival was not easy. In ‘Plus + report: Dory Valdano’, Now available on Movistar Plus+, Valdano reveals that Mendoza called him at home at 11 pm to tell him that he could not sign Redondo. That’s right, the president had a plan B: Simeone. He tells him that he can sign it, but Valdano is not convinced because “Although Simeone and Redondo played together in the Argentine national team, they were old-fashioned”.
Perhaps this is the moment when Simeone was closer to signing for Real Madrid , but Valdano Lanz is ultimately for the president: “Now you have two jobs, to sign a centre-half and a coach, because he thought I signed, but he hasn’t signed my contract yet.”. And in the end he got away with it because he left his house at 1 am, but with Redondo in custody.
