#5 The di Stefano affair
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Alfredo Di Stefano is one of the greatest players ever to grace the football field, and his exploits for Real Madrid are a part of the football folklore ever since he won all those trophies with them in the 1950s and early ‘60s.
While there is no hard evidence about whether Di Stefano’s transfer move from Millonarios (a Bogota-based club) to Real Madrid was legitimately completed, it is an issue raked up by some football nerds.
The known facts are these:
(a) Barcelona refused to pay Millonarios the sum of 27,000 dollars demanded by the Colombian club on the grounds that Di Stefano would finish his contract in 18 months from the time of negotiation, and they would then snap him up on a free transfer. This was not taken to well by the Argentine.
(b) Real Madrid made the required payment of 27,000 dollars to Millonarios to close the transfer deal in July 1953.
Nevertheless, the vague details of the transfer have never been revealed in public, and it is something even Real fans would choose to gloss over, given a choice.
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