6 replacements for Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid

#5 Marco Asensio

Marco Asensio is the next big thing, isn't he?

While the natural tendency for most big clubs looking to fill superstar-sized holes in the team is to spend big and import a ready-made one from another big team, there often happens to be a simpler, cheaper, and equally, effective solution lurking within their own squad.

Marco Asensio has all the technical qualities you would want in someone you want to build a team around - that volley against Las Palmas, mamma mia! -and he seems to possess the kind of big-game temperament that is essential for a club like Madrid.

His skill, talent, and will-to-win make him the ideal candidate for grooming to be the next Cristiano Ronaldo and the appeal of this solution increases even further when we consider the fact that he's learning something from the great man day-in and day-out in training.