Sevilla’s unrivalled success in the transfer market over the last two decades has made them a model for other clubs throughout European football, with sporting triumphs accompanying business profit through Monchi's two spells as the La Liga club's peerless sporting director.
Nine of the 13 senior club trophies won throughout Sevilla’s history have come post the year 2000, a spell which coincides with the time that the club’s former back-up goalkeeper Ramon ‘Monchi’ Rodriguez Verdejo has been working the transfer market better than anybody else. Such an outcome was not widely expected when Cadiz-born Monchi was appointed as Sevilla’s sporting director shortly after he had retired from a “not so remarkable” career spent mostly as a back-up goalkeeper at the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan through the 1990s.