Real Madrid's season has been nothing short of a disaster.
So excruciatingly painful has it been that even coach Zinedine Zidane admitted in April that he could not wait for it to end.
Of course, that the Frenchman is even back at the helm says it all.
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He stepped down last summer but was persuaded to return by club president Florentino Perez in March following the dismissal of Santiago Solari, who had been hired to succeed Zidane's replacement, Julen Lopetegui.
Solari, at least, managed to retain the Club World Cup but that was to be as good as it got for the Argentine, as Real's season quickly capitulated in the spring, during arguably the most humiliating week in the club's history.