Arda Güler is only 18 years old, but the Turkish ten has long since shown that his fine feet promise a world career. Europe’s top clubs scramble for him – especially Barça and Real Madrid.
It’s not uncommon for the two biggest clubs in the Spanish league to tussle over the same player, and this sometimes leads to legendary clashes. The most spectacular was the quarrel over the great Alfredo Di Stéfano, who ended up at Real Madrid in the 1950s, obviously also through the influence of the fascist Franco regime, although FC Barcelona believed they had already signed him. The dispute between the two clubs about David Beckham, which has just celebrated its 20th anniversary, was less political than that about Neymar, both cases were more of a monetary nature: Beckham ended up at Real, Neymar at Barça.
