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Sevilla hoping Champions League run can continue Monchi's success, but Dortmund test awaits

It's possible that you don't immediately know who Ramon Rodríguez Verdejo is, and you certainly won't know what his annual salary plus bonuses is. But if you've even spent an instant in thrall to Sevilla's building of a trophy empire over the past 16 years, you'll know that the bold Ramon is universally known as Monchi -- and you, like me, will suspect that his salary should be in the region of €10m per year. (Spoiler: it's not.)

There's no argument that better teams than this, or any version of Monchi's Sevilla over his near 21 years as Sporting Director, have been constructed, but I don't think that there's any competition for him to be named the best "Team Builder" in modern football history, perhaps ever.