Holland, Russia and Ukraine are now far behind.
In some way you can say that portuguese football is an overperformer. We don't have the 6th economy or the 6th population. We must have the biggest percentage of best player in the world per inhabitant. Are we very good at it, or it's just a sign that our football is way too big to our country and you won't be able to afford it in the future?
I can see you are somewhat disapointed, but both we and France are still far behind Italy. But you might know that history is well, history and calcio's world record transfer fees days are gone. I can still remember Milan paying a fortune to sign Lentini and he got into a car crash, didn't he? I was a little kid then.
Beware your dreammy presidents. Milan won't sign Cristiano Ronaldo and Inter won't sign Messi
