Former Barcelona and Real Madrid winger and all-round Portugal legend Luis Figo has admitted that his controversial decision to cross the Clásico divide and trade Camp Nou for Santiago Bernabeu in the summer of 2000 cost him a few friends.
Yet despite becoming a figure of hate in Barcelona - Figo was infamously greeted by a barrage of missiles including a severed pig's head during his first game back in Catalunya - he never gives travelling to the city a second thought 16 years on.
"If I have to go to Barcelona for something (an event or work, for example), I will," the retired star is quoted as saying by Mundo Deportivo.
"I have no problem" he added.
In the first coming of Florentino Perez and the start of what would become known as the Galacticos era, Real offered Figo's release clause of €60m, a world record fee at the time, and he took the chance to move to the capital where he was crowned Ballon d'Or winner only a few months later.
It was a hugely sore spot for Barcelona fans, and some of the friends he left behind in Catalunya no longer wanted to be associated with him after that.
"There are people who I considered friends that ceased to be after I signed (for Real). It didn't 'look good' to be a friend of Luis Figo," the 43-year-old remembered.
Figo's family certainly doesn't appear to have a definitive loyalty to either Madrid or Barcelona. In fact, two of his children actually side with the Blaugrana despite their father's murky relationship with the club.
"My little daughter is from Madrid, and the other two think they are Barça," he said.
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