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…
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!