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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 Ribery.

Bayern Munich’s Franck Ribery, who is reportedly insisting on a move to Real Madrid, could become the last piece in a magic trio with Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo at the club. With a current rating of 103.09 points, Ribery trails only the two players mentioned

Former Olympique Lyon forward and France international Karim Benzema is joining Real Madrid with the best rating of any striker now in the employ of the Madrilenes; he has 157 points at the moment.

The effectiveness of Brazil’s trio of midfielders made up of Real Madrid’s Kaka (pictured left), Fiorentina’s Felipe Melo, and Panathinaikos’ Gilberto Silva (pictured right) in winning the recent Confed Cup in South Africa has had a reflection on the

Real Madrid number one goalkeeper Iker Casillas has used the Confederations Cup to improve his rating after a lackluster campaign in La Liga: he picked up 60 rating points in the few games he was allowed to play with Spain in the competition to take his