The living room has no end. The tables are perfectly aligned on a black floor, as in a stand. A book by designer Tom Ford, who was the creative director of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, and a photo album of Marilyn Monroe are arranged as if they had never been consulted. If it were not for some family photos in the corners, it would look like an uninhabited place. This afternoon, however, the guests pile up, because Cristiano Ronaldo has sent for his trusted people, his advisors, in search of a guilty party. He wants to know who is responsible for the fiscal problems that threaten him with the worst of the qualifiers for his pride and ego: that of delinquent. The meeting took place on May 11, 2017, the day on which the real countdown to the departure of Real Madrid began, consummated on July 11, 2018, after paying 18.8 million euros to the Treasury and recognizing four tax crimes.