As a data-driven analyst who trusts numbers over noise, I watched this deal unravel not from emotion, but from mismatched valuation models. Arsenal offered €65M + €15M in add-ons; Porto demanded €70M flat. The gap wasn't emotional—it was algorithmic. Zeca Raisch, quietly determined, now faces an uncertain future. This isn’t drama. It’s a spreadsheet with two incompatible equations.