Plenty left in 31-year-old ‘beast’ Ronaldo, says Zidane

His superb performances for the Catalans have seen him linked with a move to arch-rivals Madrid in recent months, who supposedly see the Brazilian as the ideal long-term replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo. We can not drop more points.

Asked if his mind had started to focus on the Champions League, where Madrid are at Roma in the first leg of their round-of-16 tie in 10 days’ time, Zidane said he would not think about prioritising Europe until La Liga was impossible.

Zinedine Zidane insists Real Madrid have not given up on their chances of landing the La Liga title, but admits there is no room for any more slip-ups. “I can not say too much about it. It’s just the way he plays”, said the Madrid coach.

Madrid have gone three consecutive games without winning away from home (D2 L1) – a sequence that has not occured in the same season since 2008/09. “Only a win is any good for us”.

“We’re going to keep going until the end, until it is mathematically impossible”. “Maybe he will play for longer than me, for sure he will. It is not that I did not look after myself, but he does it even more, physically he is a beast”.

Madrid will still be without Gareth Bale when they take on Granada due to a calf injury and Zidane has stressed they will not rush the Welshman back into action.

“We’ve opted to slow things down a bit because our thinking at this stage is that he should be improving but that he shouldn’t have made a fully recovery as yet”. The fans love players like Neymar’.

“I admire him and I hope it continues because he’s a super-important player for the team and I”.

“Some people like his style, others don’t”.

Wengers inability to bring in Isco from Real Madrid partially explains the Gunners’ quiet January transfer dealings, as the Arsenal boss missed out on his opportunity to bring in any big-names signings.

Oh, Eden. Oh you naive, silly little boy.