Usually there is a melodrama when a player crosses enemy lines from Barcelona to Real Madrid and vice versa, but it sparks volumes about dimly his star had faded that nobody seemed at Barcelona seemed to care that their former teenage prodigy penned a deal with their arch-rivals in the summer of 2007. Having been acquired as a 19 year old for £15 million, the Argentine was hailed as the next Maradona, and despite a goal-laden couple of seasons at the Nou Camp, he would soon be pushed down the pecking order, shoved out on loan before being released as a seemingly-washed up 25 year old in 2007. It seemed strange for Real Madrid to take a punt on Saviola, as the gunned for a second successive La Liga title - surely snapping up the deadwood from the nearest rivals wasnt the smartest move in the book? After all, this was a striker who had managed just five league goals the previous term. At the Bernabeu, he fared even worse, scoring a meagre total of five goals in 28 appearances in all competitions during his anonymous two-year stint at the club, before leaving for Benfica in the summer of 2009.
Recent Journalism & New Media graduate. Insatiable thirst for all things football, and hopes to break into the field of sports journalism in the near future.
Have made a significantly insignificant playing career out of receiving several slaps around the head for not passing the ball.
