WHEN REAL MADRID WANTED TO BUY FRANCESCO TOTTI FROM A.S. ROMA.

The Spanish giants Real Madrid were very keen to buy the famous Italian striker Francesco Totti from the club in Rome, A.S. Roma. Yes he price was good and so was the weekly salary Real Madrid had offered Francesco Totti. But Francesco Totti, who had joined A.S. Roma as a eight year old boy and retired from football at the age of 41, forty one years, he is now working on the A.S. Roma board. He was always and very proud of the fact that he was a one club player. He after a long time of thinking over his future at A..S. Roma, he decided he was a Roma man through and through, and he politely rejected the Real Madrid offer. But that was not the end of the matter. Florentino Peres, who was very keen to sign Francesco Totti, during his first term as president of Real Madrid. Florentino Peres met Francesco Totti, and asked him to give him a A.S. Roma jersey signed by Francesco Totti. But Francesco Totti obliged by signing the A.S. Roma jersey but Florentino Peres requested Francesco Totti , to also write on the jersey that Francesco totti was the man who refused to join Real Madrid.And it was done.