Madrid — Real Madrid have spent more than €300m on new recruits but they head into the new La Liga season clouded by uncertainty and with pressure already building up on coach Zinedine Zidane after a worrying warm-up campaign.

Madrid won only two of their seven preseason games, shipping 18 goals and suffering three defeats including a humiliating 7-3 thrashing at the hands of local rivals Atletico Madrid and losses to Bayern Munich and Tottenham Hotspur...

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