Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane reportedly "doesn’t have faith" in the club's summer acquisitions after failing to name any of them in the starting lineups for either of his two games in charge and bringing just one off the bench.
According to AS, 2015 recruits Kiko Casilla, Mateo Kovacic, Danilo and Casemiro, as well as Lucas Vazquez and Denis Cheryshev, who were kept at the Bernabeu rather than loaned out this season, all failed to make the starting XI in either of Zidane's matches and only Kovacic made a 25-minute cameo as a substitute in the second, a 5-1 win over Sporting Gijon.