THE FUSE

Santos praised the player's personal and technical qualities, saying in an interview with the Spanish newspaper "AS": "As a footballer, everyone already knows him. He possesses immense quality and sees football the way very few players in the world do. His level as a player is so high that it is difficult to say he is at the same level as a person, but in his case that is the truth. He is caring, polite, kind and wonderful, and his lips always keep a smile. On a personal and human level, he is one of the best players I have known in my entire career, and Real Madrid have signed a phenomenon in every sense."