When Sevilla presented 37-year-old Sergio Ramos as their last summer signing, their sporting director Victor Orta pulled out a toy plane and gifted it to the club president, Pepe Castro.
Just a few days before the window shut, in the middle of a scrum of reporters, Castro was told: ‘Ramos wants to join Sevilla!’ He replied: ‘Yeah, and I want my own private plane.’
Castro handed the toy plane to one of Ramos’s four young sons watching the press conference ahead of their father’s return to the club he left as a 19-year-old in 2005.