Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi together was Real Madrid's biggest dream but the former president says it was always going to be impossible

Ramon Calderon, the man who brought Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for a then-world record £80 million in 2009 (nearly $107 million), says he desperately wanted Lionel Messi too, but knew from the outset it was never going to happen. The former Los Blancos president opened up to A BOLA about one of football's great what-ifs, the two greatest players of their generation coexisting at the same club, and why geography, loyalty, and club politics made it a fantasy rather than a plan.

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