The club did everything possible to take him from Monaco. They saw him almost in white, but.... "He told me: 'Vadim, deep inside me, I feel it's too early. I only played one year in my country, I'm Parisian, I don't want to leave my country like this. I want to become a great player here. Real will wait... That's my feeling," Monaco's president (Vadim Vasyliev) unveiled months later.