While most of the world is still trying to get back on it’s feet from the economic crisis, sports teams such as Real Madrid turn the other cheek and spend spend spend. This has been an off-season to remember with two of the biggest names in world soccer coming over to the Spanish side in record breaking deals. The Brazil and former AC Milan superstar Kaka was the first to join after Milan accepted a deal worth €65m.

After that deal I’m sure most people thought that was it, but Real Madrid had more players on their mind and more money to spend. After a long saga of rumours, on 26 June Manchester United accepted a deal for Cristiano Ronaldo worth roughly €93m. Even after these two big transfers, Real were not afraid to spend a little more money as they picked up young Frenchmen Karim Benzema from French side Lyon for €35m

Needless to say it has been a huge off-season and now we have to wait a few more weeks to see this stacked side play in competition. It will be interesting to see if all of this will pay off as their rivals Barcelona have also made some moves this off-season and look to defend their treble from last year which included the La Liga, Spanish Cup and Champions League.