You could not buy Champions.

"I came to see PSG with the knife between my teeth and i found a Madrid with a cigar in his mouth" Arrigo Sacchi.

After the round of 16 and waiting for the start of the fourth round of the most important football competition in Europe, we can see who have been the disappointments so far in the competition. Chelsea, spurs, man. United ... And then you see them. The (not so) new rich people of the neighborhood.

The Paris Saint German came to his crossing in the second round with Real Madrid (12 times king of Europe, 3 last won in 4 years, 2 consecutively), with an air of superiority, an aura of being 'best team’. Perhaps mostly because of the disappointing campaign of the merengue team in the league, but also because of its spectacular walk during the group stage (removing the laziness of the last game in Munich)..

Mirages! And the fact is that Madrid only need the first leg to demonstrate how, in Europe, they are still the kings of this competition; how a hierarchy team develops -constructed during years of competing at the top based on Cristiano and his goals, the seriousness of the bouquets and the weight of being the most winner of the champions league. Being a group united on a checkbook basis, that hierarchy (tranquility, weight, confidence) is based on experience ... And that is, in my opinion, the key word. These players know each other, being with the passage of the years more and stronger.

It is not enough to have good players, much less good technicians. At that level of competition the difference makes the tranquility to be decisive at the right time. A tranquility that is built by trust within a group. However, 3 years of goals from Zlatan, as many years of Ancelotti, other years with Blanc, the couple of Cavani and DiMaria or signing the promise of turn ... But it is the way and the wallet of this team could prevent your best talents are fleeing to other teams.

The games have to be played. This means that (perhaps) having been more solid in the bernabéu, having had a better arbitration job or that Neymar and company had been more forceful, we would be telling a different story. This would be that of a team that proved to have what it takes. But it was not like that... And that's the way sport condemns you.
The Champions, their prestige and their level of competition, require that the winning teams must be special and have that something. Without exception. Chelsea 2012? Even them. Abramovich took 10 years to win this competition, perhaps not in the way he expected, but he did it with a solid and well-known backbone team, the old rockers (Drogba, Lampard, Terry, Cech, Ashley Cole, etc.), now legends.

We hope to finish next summer to see if this PSG takes a big team step or we hear again "now with your new figure wait ..." we will know what to expect. And you, do you think Neymar will go to Madrid or have the ambition to win and not be in the shadow of anyone?