Madrid looking Good in Attack.

It might not have come as any great surprise in the end but then again any day a new world record transfer is set is a always going to raise the eyebrows. Cristiano Ronaldo has finally gotten his dream move to Madrid. He probably won't be too happy that he will have to share the limelight with Kaka and possibly Ribery or Villa. Is there any way to fix that and make Ronaldo's dreams come through exactly as he imagined they would?

Last season Madrid did have Schneider, Robben, Raul, Huntelaar, Van Nistelrooy, Van der Vaart, Drenthe which isn't such a bad attack. It needs strengthening for sure but having Ronaldo and Kaka in the bag with the possibility of one more Galactico arriving, one wonders if they will have any cash leftover to reinforce their defence. Probably not but then the great thing about Spanish football is that no one will really care either. Real Madrid will have a great team with Kaka and Ronaldo who should provide exciting and winning performances almost every week.

That might be little little consolation at the end of the season when they've still been knocked out of the Champions League after getting well beaten by one of the English clubs or are 2nd in La Liga. I would say that all great teams are built around a solid defensive formation but then didn't Barcelona expose the folly of this theory with their mesmerising performance in the Champions League Final?

I'm not so sure because besides the fact that Manchester United could have been two goals up before Barcelona's first attack (and consequent goal), United's performance on the night was so impotent that in the cold light of day it is difficult to say for sure whether the result was due to Barcelona's best or United's worst ever performance.

Would Iniesta and Xavi have been given the Freedom to Rome had Darren Fletcher played instead of Anderson? Would Ronaldo have made more of an impact if he played on the wing to exploit Sylvinho and Berbatov played upfront? We'll never know for sure except that I think it's safe to say that Chelsea exposed some holes in the Barcelona defence in the semi-final even if they couldn't exploit them.

Historically and traditionally, the backbone of most successful teams have been built around a solid defence making the Galactico's strategy look like a risky one. It has been tried before with mixed results. At least this time they have signed players of real quality and it would seem far more likely that the era of Ronaldo and Kaka will be more reminiscent of that of Figo and Zidane that the football shambles but commercial success of Beckham's tenure. Maybe Madrid have learned the lessons of the past and are now trying to get the best of both worlds.