Former Colombia national team doctor Hector Fabio Cruz has lamented James Rodriguez for his lack of professionalism.
James' future remains in the balance at Real Madrid, but Cruz thinks that many of the problems he faces are down to his own doing.
"The boy isn't focused," Cruz said to Futbolred.
"Instead of working for the new season he went to fix his eyebrows and his hair while he should have been working.
"Big teams like Madrid expect professionalism, who will be prepared, but this boy has a bad head."
Cruz didn't stop there though, and his criticism of James kept going.
"A player who spends months away from the pitch and goes from club to club, how does he stay there?" he questioned.
"He'll stay at first, but if he prepared properly he wouldn't suffer any of this.
?"I already predicted that it would go wrong because he doesn't work."
To further emphasise his point, the doctor used Cristiano Ronaldo as a comparison.
"Cristiano took a week of vacation," he said.
"He went on a yacht with his family to Greece and then the following week he had 15 people preparing him for the season.
"He's the most professional guy I know.
"James left the World Cup injured, hired a private plane, went to the beach and relaxed. That can't be."
Flatmo
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James Rodriguez thrown under the bus ... cant say i'm surprised by all of what's being said but he knows that playing time with Zidane requires a lot of effort and hard work.
Jamirl
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He has just returned from Bayern and the league has quite changed since he's departure,....it won't be that easy to adapt to the team but with a player of he's Caliber it wouldn't take much time let's just hope injury doesn't affect him because he's a very talented player with so much to offer...Get well soon James
unclein
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I'm not going to hold this against James if he works on himself, there's reports coming out that he has changed and that Zidane is impressed. Hopefully it's upwards from here, but I hope people now finally see that he doesn't just randomly get benched.
poniard
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James isn't a top professional. He doesn't take care of himself. That's why so many injuries etc. The' boy is out of focus , instead of working for the coming ssn he went to fix his eyebrows and organize his hair when he should be workin This ^ is what his former NT doctor said