Upon his return to Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane highlighted the importance of Los Blancos competing for LaLiga Santander.
In 2017/18, Barcelona finished 17 points ahead of their rivals and, last season, Zidane's side were left in third spot once more, 19 points from the summit.
In his second spell as coach, the Frenchman emphasised the league as his primary target for the current season.
He held talks with players and directors to make clear that the team would always compete for LaLiga.
"It's not normal that, for example, Luka [Modric] has only won one league [title] here," he repeated in several of those talks.
The Croatian midfielder, who is one of Zidane's favourite players, joined Los Blancos back in 2012 and only won the league in 2016/17.
No team have won the league more times than Real Madrid, with 33 successes, although they have won just six of its 19 editions since the turn of the century.
One of Zidane's arguments was that the 2016/17 Champions League win came due to the team feeling confident that they could compete for two trophies until the end and not having the pressure of being left with just one target to fulfil.
Barcelona players lead in titles
The Blaugrana players accumulate as many as 149 international titles among them compared to the 44 won by Real Madrid's squad.
For example, Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Luis Suarez, who arrived in 2014, have the same number of league medals (four) as Sergio Ramos who joined Madrid in 2005 and Marcelo, who went to Los Blancos in January 2006.
MumbaRk
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the reason behind this failure is the club board some times we Lucky continuity because of changing coaches .we find ourselves building every season, like Carol anecelot he won the champions league in his first season but the following season he finished second in the league ,we fired him but the team was improving and playing well
KeronKush
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We definitely need to put more focus on La Liga. I support this move 100%. Let's go for everything but prioritize the League where we have to.
elnilsen99
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ZIDANE is very wise and uses words to make his players work harder and archive much in future . Modric will now work hard to win not just the next but as many as possible go go madrista 💪😍👍
yuvi1998
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it is human nature when a team does not win a certain trophy for long time they see it more important that what they have won recently. example see liverpool in last season some players like salah have said if they have option to choose between champion league trophy and epl trophy, he will go with epl one. though he knows champions league trophy is worth more he still preferred epl. that is life, we always see something which we don't have is much important, that's how we can fix a goal and improve