"Izan is the kind of player you build a decade around,"
Florentino Pérez said in a quiet, deliberate voice.
"And I won't make the same mistake twice."
The words dropped with the weight of a chess piece slamming onto the board.
Real Madrid's president hadn't raised his tone or grinned like a man trying to stir headlines. He just said it. Calm. Measured. Final.
And it hit like a warning.
.....
"No cometas el mismo error dos veces."
"Don't make the same mistake twice."
That was the quote.
And in Spain, no one missed it.
By early morning, El Chiringuito was live.
Cameras ready.
Hosts sharpening takes like knives on stone.
The set was electric—bright under studio lights, with slow pans across the table of familiar faces.
Josep Pedrerol, as always, presided from the center like a man hosting both a war council and a sermon.
"Florentino has spoken," he said, voice slow.
"And when Florentino speaks, it's not noise. It's movement."
