Poach and Be Poached From

While Twain wracked his brain for ways to poach from other teams, his players were also being poached at the same time.

Just days after the Champions League final, news came from the Spanish side that Real Madrid had targeted Nottingham Forest player, Franck Ribéry. And unlike the rumors in the first half of the year, the Real Madrid club was for real this time. 

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Real Madrid had two key targets they wanted to bring in, one of whom was the Portuguese, Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored forty-one goals in a season at Manchester United and had become the Premier League's top scorer. The other was this year's Champions League's Player of the Year, Franck Ribéry. 

Both men were currently star players with the most appeal in the football world. The nature of Real Madrid was to pursue the best players in the world and then have them all play for the best club in the world.