#5 Madrid had a better rotation policy
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Even before the 2016/17 campaign had begun, there was a general acceptance that Real Madrid had, man for man, just about the best squad in world football.
Chatter on the football grapevine was more to do with how Zinedine Zidane was going to keep everyone happy.
Aside from a couple of players, particularly Alvaro Morata and James Rodriguez, the Frenchman hasn’t only managed to keep everyone onside, but he’s done it in such a way that all of his perceived ‘reserves’ have played over 1000 minutes of the season, coming good on his promise that everyone was important.
Compare that to Luis Enrique who was hamstrung from the very beginning by some poor transfer window buys. Denis Suarez and Lucas Digne have been a complete waste of time and space with Paco Alcacer and Andre Gomes only finding their feet in the latter weeks of the season.
Umtiti has settled but a lack of decent back up has meant that Enrique couldn’t rotate as much as he would’ve wanted – and that’s been disastrous for the Blaugrana.
