With President Florentino Peres’ second stint, Real Madrid are once again building up firepower, with the successive acquisitions of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema, Raul Albiol, with the possible addition soon of Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribéry. We are assessing the strength of these stars based on our own rating system.

The leader by all indicators appears to be former Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo: his overall rating of 175.83 points is the highest among the newcomers, as well as his individual contribution to the rating (35.8%); the amount of points earned, on average, per game (17.35); and his star factor of 9.1%. The remaining stars are strong each in their particular categories.

Ronaldo aside, Ribéry is unequalled as far as individual contribution to the rating is concerned (30%), though he and Ronaldo trail Albiol in the amount of rating points earned in the last 5 games.

Brazilian superstar Kaka is second only to Ronaldo rating-wise at 167.14 points. He is likewise second in the average rating points take per game (12.88), while Benzema is close behind with 12.4 points, on average, per game and is ahead in the overall amount of points earned in the season (868.34 points).