Problems are piling up for Real Madrid, from thin squad to $1bn stadium
Real Madrid are the best-run club in world football, aren’t they? They are serial winners, emerging victorious from six of the last 11 Champions League finals, and the trophy cabinet at the Santiago Bernabéu boasts 36 LaLiga titles and 15 European Cups among countless others. They have defined elite performance for decades, and maintained that success in this challenging, 21st century era of mega-rich investors and state-sponsored super clubs. Under…