Sitting 14 points behind their main rivals and almost certainly not going to win La Liga this year is giving Real Madrid a lot of time to plan for next season, and they've got three massive targets to bring to the Bernabeu in the summer.
There's not too many clubs who actually make a profit when they've finished doing all their work in the transfer market and Real Madrid certainly aren't well known for doing that, especially under Florentino Perez.
The club president is infamous in football for bringing in the Galactico era at the Bernabeu, both the original one with Beckham, Zidane and Figo and the newer one with the likes of Bale, Kroos and Modric.
But in the summer Los Blancos bought around €50 million worth of Dani Ceballos and Theo Hernandez but sold about €150 million worth of James Rodriguez, Danilo, Alvaro Morata and several others.
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Barcelona's incredible form and Real's occasional slip up has seen them drop way behind their fierce rivals and put Zidane under pressure in his job. Perez is ready to throw money at the problem.
According to Mundo Deportivo Real are ready to 'blow' the transfer window open in the summer with a transfer shopping list of Neymar, Mauro Icardi and Eden Hazard.
If Real signed just one of the three it would be big news but all three would be on an absolutely ridiculous level, the kind of thing not seen since they signed Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer of 2009.
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Hazard has long been subject to rumours of moving to the Spanish capital and is reportedly a big fan of Zidane and would like to work with the former World Cup winner.
Icardi could even come in during the current transfer window according to the report with the Inter captain possibly available 110 million euros, although that's yet to be seen.
Neymar would be the hardest transfer to pull off because he only moved to PSG from Barcelona for £198 million last summer and it would seem unlikely he would move again.
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However Perez would likely be happy to offer a lot of money for the 25 year-old having been a fan of his for a long time.
What a ridiculous summer it could be!
Featured Image Credit:Topics: Eden Hazard, Mauro Icardi, Neymar, Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid