Julen Lopetegui has been sacked as Real Madrid coach but after the Camp Nou debacle, the players must also assume some of the blame.
The Los Blancos fans have had their say in a MARCA poll on who they think are the worst performing players so far this season.
Gareth Bale, Sergio Ramos and Karim Benzema have been highlighted as the guilty parties in Real Madrid's wretched start to the 2018/19 campaign, which sees them seven points off the pace in LaLiga Santander.
Bale, who was supposed to be the leader of this team after Cristiano Ronaldo's exit, leads the ranking with over 43,000 votes. The Welshman has only managed four goals and in recent matches he has been completely anonymous.
Meanwhile, Sergio Ramos is not enjoying his best spell of form and the Real fans have placed him in second position of those responsible for Madrid's crisis with over 40,000 votes.
Benzema completes the podium as, despite starting the season well with braces against Girona and Leganes, his attitude on the pitch has appeared to be apathetic and his performances inconsistent, resulting in him receiving 35,200 votes from the Madrid faithful in this particular survey.
After the trio, Raphael Varane comes next with 30,500 votes, Marco Asensio with 27,500 and then Toni Kroos, Isco, Thibaut Courtois and Marcelo complete the top 10 most guilty culprits.
Dani Carvajal, Keylor Navas and Alvaro Odriozola, who have all played less minutes than the others, were kept out of the firing line on this occasion.
jackguyreal
217
The true has to be told CR7 exit from the team, it mean the whole team is exit because the team is build around CR7 just as Barcelona team is build around Loe Messy, RM have to start from beginning again to rebuild the team, for my own opinion all blame gos to the President of the team, who don’t know much about football, how can you look dawn on ur key player that the team is build around him, to extent let him exit from the team without major reason, that is where the problem pop up from, i think is better to branch him then letting him go , that name CR7 is threat to anything team playing against RM, a good football management should know is not the right time to let CR7 to leave the team when they don’t have someone to replace him, and to my understanding no one can replace CR7, who ever they bring will only place is own way not to replace CR7, I could remember when Neymar leave Barcelona, the first 3 games they play his space is shown but thanks to the management they got player on bench to replace him, meanwhile Neymar is not the best player playing Barcelona then but is one of the key player for that reason the management is not in total support for his exit because they know his exit will cause a lot to the team, anyway back to my point CR7 exit is the main reason that flop the whole team, RM will need to start from beginning not only to sack the Manager they need to sell out some old players and bring new once they need to rebuild the team, this my own opinion
Ndalakation
163
After the exits of Zidane and Ronaldo, this should have been a summer of regeneration at the Bernabeu. Instead, rot was allowed to set in. Lopetegui may not have been the right captain to navigate a tricky period of transition... but it is Perez, with his poor planning, who effectively sent Real Madrid heading straight for the iceberg.
Thomasgoffajr23
148
For me Modric, Courtois, Benzema and Bale are the worst performing players this season on Real Madrid. Especially Modric, since he won The Best award he is not up to the quality he was before.
Counsellor10
112
they never appreciated this man when he left rather they believe they are now more of a team"Benzema 2018"
bluespidey1067
102
the higher plane of knowledge only papa perez understands this
razipst
65
1. when you have a president who dont know anything about football, thinking bale can lead the team and that is the major problem. 2. bale dont know who he is by saying "RM a complete team without Ronaldo" I saw this scum bale long ago after a few games that he dont belong in La Liga as this league is more about technicality, skills, and you have to know how to run without the ball? and this stupid bale got none. there no denial that he got speed and he is good for Premier League. 3. isco thinks he can lead the team bc of playing tiki taka under Julen for Spain, so he is cocky to say "we dont need Ronaldo" after a few games against minnow teams and Roma. the 1st one to be fire is this idiot isco, not Julen causes the idiot even said "if they fire the coach, they should fire all of the players "people misunderstood his statement thinking he blamed all the players while actually he cockily protect the coach" 4. karma get them for betraying Zidane last season and who betrayed Zidane? ramos, nacho, isco, and the worst of all cavarjal, and nobody see this.