Camacho packs his bags and go-goes

Jose-Antonio Camacho has quit his post as manager of Real Madrid, six years after, well... Doing the same thing. The two-time quitter says he won't be coming back, but lets face it, if you have the greatest starting eleven in the modern game, and you can't win any games, what on Earth makes you think anyone involved with the club would ask you back? Perez should have fired his ass.

But there's been discontent in Madrid longer Camacho's reign. Querioz took the greatest team on Earth to precisely fuck all silverware last season. Beckham, Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo, Raul, Roberto Carlos, Salgado, Casillas- How can this team not win anything?

Let's say it- oh, the irony- Real didn't win because they don't have any players. There is no depth whatsoever. By bolstering there squad with Owen, Woodgate, and Samuel, Real have merely increased the number of great players at the club to eleven. But the instant one of Real's eleven is injured, they're fucked. Beyond the greats in the squad, there's no one in the team who would get a start at Chelsea or Arsenal. Hell, these guys would be playing reserve games if they were at either the London-based teams. A team like Real, with Champions league games as well, can play 50+ matches in a season. They simply don't have the strength in depth to achieve anything, no matter the starting line-up's talent. Yet, they persist with this greedy, short sighted method. Zidane, Carlos and Figo are all over thirty, and the rest are all in the autumn of their careers. Woodgate, Owen and Casillas are the only ones with a lot playing time left. What happens in a few years when these players all quit? Spend $300-400 million on new stars? Unworkable. They're fucked, quite simply.

Which is frustrating for me; I'm a Newcastle supporter, so that was the silver lining of letting Woodgate go there: It would be good for the England squad. Same with Becks, and little Owen. Sunny Madrid never looked so gloomy.