Tops Off, Thumbs Up And Cough: 32 Eerily Similar Photos Of Real Madrid Players Undergoing Medicals

Chris Wright

2nd, September 2013

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By Chris Wright

As these photos will duly prove in good time, Real Madrid really do have a tried and true template when it comes to giving their new players the once over. Los Blancos really do seem to enjoy the old “topless thumbs-up with sensor pads all over the chest” pose.

Here’s 32 of the finest/most awkward…

bale

adebayor1

albiol

arbeloa

benzema

canales

Carvajal

carvalho

coentrao

diarra

di-maria

emerson

essien

gago

higuain

huntelaar

illarramendi

isco

Kaka

khedira

marcelo

modric

ozil

parejo

pedro-leon

ramos

reyes

Real Madrid Presents Cristiano Ronaldo As New Player

saviola

sneijder

varane

vdv

Xabi Alonso Attends Real Madrid Medical

Are we the only ones who find this kind of uniform regularity a little eerie and unsettling? Probably.

Anyway, we’ve got a FUN FACT to end on: The Sanitas clinic in La Moraleja, northern Madrid personally paid Gareth Bale a whopping £10million to stage his medical there. Why? We have absolutely no idea.

Like we’ve said before countless times; it’s bloody good work if you can get it, this “joining Real Madrid” malarkey!