#5 The instability in general at Real Madrid
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Real Madrid are probably the biggest club in world football right now and there’s no denying they’re the most successful. Part of that success is down to their policy of buying the world’s best players constantly, their ‘Galactico’ project. Sometimes it has succeeded like anything, as with the signings of Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, and more recently Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale.
Other times though it hasn’t quite gone down so well. Look at what happened to Michael Owen at the Bernabeu, or Kaka, or Mesut Ozil, or James Rodriguez.... you get the picture.
When the world’s best players are usually flashy attackers, then sometimes Real end up with a situation where too many cooks can spoil the broth. After all, there’s only so many flashy attackers that a team can use, right? Which means there’s only ever going to be limited places in the starting line-up.
Throw in Madrid’s penchant for changing manager at the drop of a few points – Zinedine Zidane is their seventh manager in the last decade and there are already rumours of Joachim Low replacing him – and sometimes top players can find themselves frozen out by no fault of their own.
At Chelsea, Hazard has stability for the most part at least. Real Madrid are about as stable as Charlie Sheen on a cocaine bender. For me, that wouldn’t bode well for a move to the Bernabeu.
