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#3 Cristiano Ronaldo
When someone rocks up and scores 422 goals in 412 matches for your club, fair chances are that he'll end up being a bonafide club legend... And they don't really make them more legendary than Cristiano Ronaldo, do they?
It's not just the stats, though, that guarantee Real Madrid's highest-ever goal scorer (and he's not done yet, not nearly) a place on this list. It's what those goals have brought them... equality (and sometimes superiority) with Barcelona during arguably the Catalan's greatest era and with Lionel Messi.
Barcelona and Lionel Messi should have taken over the world - in terms of both footballing achievements and commercial success - but Madrid have matched them step-for-step, and that's all down to the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo just does not give up.
Without him, this last decade would have been oh, so different for Los Blancos.
