Just too many cooks for me mate. Absolutely stacked in midfield and he didn’t get the minutes as a pure 10.Why do you think the Real Madrid move didn't work for him?
He was never the main creator there and that’s when he was alive. He wasn’t a flop by any stretch he had his share of landmark moments for Madrid.
They liked to play 2 banks of 3 and he was always wide, he was quality there but not peak. He had Modric, Kroos, peak Casimero as CM, Ronaldo and Benzema to accommodate.
Not being the main man in that is no insult. He play like 250 or more games for Madrid in a squad that was obscene in midfield.