This Real Madrid side is 'going nowhere'

The identification of the fact that Isco and James Rodriguez could not play together and that Rodriguez is not strong enough either physically or mentally for La Liga - and the simple fact is that Isco is not Real Madrid quality.

What we have now is a team completely lacking in leadership. By his own admission ZZ says he doesn’t know if he will be at the club next season. Much may well depend on what happens in the Champions League and besides that it’s difficult to imagine who is out there that would go for the job at the moment.The players know the league has gone but they are also aware that potentially they just five games away from winning the Champions League. A‘switched-off’ approach similar to that shown against Las Palmas is as dangerous as it is foolhardy because it isn’t always that easy to revert back to 'switched-on' mode.

Off the pitch there is the usual chicanery and internal politics in the battle to be the 

top man at the Bernabeu with elections planned for Summer 2017.

With much of the crowd baying for the President’s head, gathering forces are already beginning to encircle the encampment and, rest assured, they will do all they can to bring elections forward.

But a minimum qualification requirement of 20 years (it used to be 10) as a Real Madrid season ticket holder and an ability to guarantee – without any third party support – 15% of the club’s enormous total budget of around 600 million euros means that there are not exactly a huge number of potential candidates for the job.

These were changes to the constitution, proposed by Perez and accepted by the club members, before the 2013 elections; changes that – funnily enough – contrived to exclude three of his potential rivals for the post, including his predecessor, Vicente Boluda

That said, it's fair to assume that this story, and all others emanating from the Bernabeu both on and off the pitch have a long way to run; watch this space.

Not least of course the future of Zidane, truly one of the greatest players ever to have graced the game and certainly a man not lacking the ambition you need to become a top coach. Unfortunately, at the moment, it is an ambition not matched by either the experience or the expertise necessary to achieving it. Report From Yahoo!Sport.